Emily Britsch is a postdoctoral fellow in the UW READi Lab. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Rochester, where she worked in research labs studying autism and language development. Emily received her PhD in Clinical & Developmental Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, and she completed her predoctoral internship at HealthPoint, a community health center in Auburn, WA.

Emily’s research interests include communicative development, the effects of parent-mediated interventions on children’s social communication, and implementation of early autism assessment and intervention with community providers to increase access to services for children with autism and their families.

Hannah is a child clinical psychology graduate student at UW. She completed her undergraduate degree at UCLA. During that time, she was involved in various research labs and clinical fieldwork focused on developmental psychopathology, which sparked her interest in ASD. Following graduation, she became a research fellow at the Yale Child Study Center in Dr. Katarzyna Chawarska’s lab. There she worked on multiple studies including the Autism Center of Excellence grant focused on early indicators of ASD as well as a multimedia ASD screener study within the community. Her research interests include early intervention for children with ASD and accessibility to diagnostic and intervention services for families in the community.

Shana is a child clinical psychology graduate student at UW. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut and her Master’s degree from Harvard University. She became interested in ASD research while working as a phenotyper in an autism lab at Boston Children’s Hospital. She subsequently worked on an early detection study at Total Child Health in Baltimore and on an early intervention study at Drexel University in Philadelphia with Dr. Diana Robins and Dr. Giacomo Vivanti. Shana is interested in researching strategies that improve early detection rates and early intervention utilization in community settings.