Language and Autism

This Boston Club meeting focused on the following questions: How does the brain create language? How can neuroscience be focused on the mental strengths of persons with autism as opposed to their deficits?

Terrence Deacon, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Albert Galaburda, M.D., Harvard Medical School

Ralph Maurer, M.D., University of Florida College of Medicine

Richard Nowakowski, Ph.D., UM.D.NJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Hugo Theoret, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

Arthur Wingfield, Ph.D., Brandeis University

2003

The NLM Family Foundation, Chestnut Hill, MA