Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Uncover and Enhance the Speech Capabilities of Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism

On January 18, 2024, the NLM Family Foundation hosted a Boston Club titled, “Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Uncover and Enhance the Speech Capabilities of Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism.” The purpose of this meeting was to discuss a collaboration of the MGH Lurie Center for Autism with the Kempner Institute at Harvard University to explore the use of artificial intelligence to uncover and enhance the speech capabilities of minimally verbal individuals with autism.

Matt Durno
Executive Director of Development, Principal and Major Gifts & Grants
Harvard Medical School

Jacob Hooker, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Lurie Center for Autism
Lurie Family Professor of Radiology in the Field of Autism Research
Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport MGH Research Scholar

Jennifer Hu, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Harvard University

Sham Kakade, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Harvard University
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and of Statistics
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Christopher McDougle, M.D.
Director
Lurie Center for Autism
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Investigating Communication in Minimally Verbal ASD: Preliminary Results and Cohort Description
Maria Mody, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Mass General Research Institute, MGH
Faculty Associate, Lurie Center for Autism, MGH

Lisa Nowinski, Ph.D.
Clinical Director, Non-Physician Services, Lurie Center for Autism
Director of Clinical Psychology & Training, Lurie Center for Autism
lnowinski@mgh.harvard.edu

Meredith Pecukonis, M.A.
Ph.D. candidate
Developmental Science
Boston University

Elise Porter, MBA
Executive Director
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Harvard University

Kempner Institute of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University
Bernardo Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.
Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Co-Director
Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Harvard University

2024

The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, Wellesley, MA