ITA Grantee Biographies
Felecia Hurewitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Drexel University
Web:
www.drexel.edu/coas/psychology/faculty/
hurewitz_felicia
www.autism-language-therapies.com/index.html
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Drexel University
Web:
www.drexel.edu/coas/psychology/faculty/
hurewitz_felicia
www.autism-language-therapies.com/index.html
Felicia Hurewitz received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on language acquisition, online sentence processing, and cognitive development. She was a postdoctoral associate at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Learning and Cognition Laboratory where she worked with Rochel Gelman and also at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania where she worked with Lila Gleitman.She received a Spencer fellowship to study mathematical cognition and numerical estimation in preschool children.
Her current research interests center on investigating educational and social interventions for people with autism. In particular she is interested in how technology may be used to improve assessment strategies and interventions for people with autism by using cutting edge technologies such as eyetracking, games that implicitly measure response time and learning, and functional neural imagining radiology (FNIR.)
Dr. Hurewitz was awarded an Innovative grant from Autism Speaks to study the efficacy of GrammarTrainer software, a text-based program to instruct people with autism in grammatical language. She is an investigator on Eastern Regional Center for Autism (ASERT) grant, working on a grant to assess the feasibility of delivering social skills supports to college students with autism. She is also active in advocacy for individuals with autism, working to improve special education legislation and supportive services for people on the autistic spectrum. Research Interests: developmental psychology, sentence processing, language acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, numerical cognition and dyscalculia, computerized interventions for learning
Selected publications / presentations:
Hurewitz, F. & Berger, P. (2008) Preparing students with autism for college, and preparing colleges for students with autism. Speaker's Journal on Pennsylvania Policy, special edition on autism spectrum disorders.
Hurewitz, F. & Beals, K. (2008) A role for grammar in Autism CAIs. In the Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children, Chicago, IL.
Friedman, O., Hurewitz, F. & Leslie, A. (in submission) Children's difficulty reasoning about the consequence of ignorance: Explaining failure in partial true belief situations.
Learning and Cognition Laboratory where she worked with Rochel Gelman and also at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania where she worked with Lila Gleitman.She received a Spencer fellowship to study mathematical cognition and numerical estimation in preschool children.
Her current research interests center on investigating educational and social interventions for people with autism. In particular she is interested in how technology may be used to improve assessment strategies and interventions for people with autism by using cutting edge technologies such as eyetracking, games that implicitly measure response time and learning, and functional neural imagining radiology (FNIR.)
Dr. Hurewitz was awarded an Innovative grant from Autism Speaks to study the efficacy of GrammarTrainer software, a text-based program to instruct people with autism in grammatical language. She is an investigator on Eastern Regional Center for Autism (ASERT) grant, working on a grant to assess the feasibility of delivering social skills supports to college students with autism. She is also active in advocacy for individuals with autism, working to improve special education legislation and supportive services for people on the autistic spectrum. Research Interests: developmental psychology, sentence processing, language acquisition, autism spectrum disorders, numerical cognition and dyscalculia, computerized interventions for learning
Selected publications / presentations:
Hurewitz, F. & Berger, P. (2008) Preparing students with autism for college, and preparing colleges for students with autism. Speaker's Journal on Pennsylvania Policy, special edition on autism spectrum disorders.
Hurewitz, F. & Beals, K. (2008) A role for grammar in Autism CAIs. In the Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children, Chicago, IL.
Friedman, O., Hurewitz, F. & Leslie, A. (in submission) Children's difficulty reasoning about the consequence of ignorance: Explaining failure in partial true belief situations.
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