Innovative Technology Advisory Board Biographies
Katharina Boser, Ph.D.
President, Individual Differences in Learning
Clarksville, Maryland
Chair, ITA committee for Autism Speaks
Email: ita@autismspeaks.org
Phone: (410) 461-5720
Web: www.individualdifferencesinlearning.org
President, Individual Differences in Learning
Clarksville, Maryland
Chair, ITA committee for Autism Speaks
Email: ita@autismspeaks.org
Phone: (410) 461-5720
Web: www.individualdifferencesinlearning.org
Katharina Boser has a research background as a cognitive developmental psychologist studying autism at the Johns Hopkins University and language impairments in patients with aphasia, using computerized therapy techniques at the University of Maryland. Her past research has included publications on developmental language acquisition and retraining language in aphasia using C-VIC a Computerized Visual Communication System. She has studied maintenance of therapeutic improvements, narrative and past tense production. Her research in autism has mostly focused on computerized assessment and therapy with low-functioning children. She has written about a computerized ‘semantic' assessment for non-verbal subjects, using computerized stimulus presentation. Her other presented research in autism focuses on working memory (verbal vs. visual), visual perception and attention abnormalities, number representation, and inter-hemispheric differences in processing. For the past 4 years, Dr. Boser has served as a research consultant for Anthrotronix, conducting a study at the Linwood School, to evaluate the efficacy of the Cosmobot software suite in improving cognitive performance in students with autism, developing a computerized assessment tool for this software. She has also been involved in research design for a grant to assess the efficacy of the Cosmobot robot to improve social skills and joint attention in autism.
Dr. Boser is committed to using technology to improve the lives of students in the clinic and the classroom and provide tools for teachers to learn more about 'universal design for learning' UDL principles (see www.cast.org). She has written and directed several grants from local foundations to improve the delivery of information about the neuropsychology of learning and learning impairments to teachers called "Walking the Path with the Twice Exceptional Learner". Dr. Boser organized a large conference last November called "What Works and Why" that incorporated strands on technology and other 'hands-on' learning for the classroom. She is working on a multi center grant to evaluate the impact of increased technology and UDL-based learning on student achievement specifically those with learning impairments (and autism) in the classroom. She gives many lectures for both teachers and community members on neuropsychology and learning and the importance of finding innovative technologies that can improve performance in STEM areas in this population. She is co-organizer of a workshop at the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland entitled "Designing for Learners with Cognitive Impairments". She is currently the acting president and program director for Individual Differences in Learning.
Selected publications/presentations:
Boser, K. Number Representation and Interhemispheric Connectivity In Autism. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, NY, 2005.
Boser K, Boatman D, Gordon B: Hemispheric asymmetries in hierarchical visual processing in autism. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, 2003.
Lathan, C. Boser, K. Frentz C. and Powers K. Using Cosmo's Learning System (CLS) with children with Autism. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technology-based Learning with Disability at WSU, Dayton, OH, July, 2007.
Boser K, Weinrich M, McCall D: Maintenance of oral production in agrammatic aphasia: Verb tense morphology training. Journal of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 2000; 14(2): 105-18.
Boser K, Higgins S, Fetherston A, Preissler MA, Gordon B: Semantic fields in low-functioning autism. Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2002; 32(6) 563-82.
Dr. Boser is committed to using technology to improve the lives of students in the clinic and the classroom and provide tools for teachers to learn more about 'universal design for learning' UDL principles (see www.cast.org). She has written and directed several grants from local foundations to improve the delivery of information about the neuropsychology of learning and learning impairments to teachers called "Walking the Path with the Twice Exceptional Learner". Dr. Boser organized a large conference last November called "What Works and Why" that incorporated strands on technology and other 'hands-on' learning for the classroom. She is working on a multi center grant to evaluate the impact of increased technology and UDL-based learning on student achievement specifically those with learning impairments (and autism) in the classroom. She gives many lectures for both teachers and community members on neuropsychology and learning and the importance of finding innovative technologies that can improve performance in STEM areas in this population. She is co-organizer of a workshop at the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland entitled "Designing for Learners with Cognitive Impairments". She is currently the acting president and program director for Individual Differences in Learning.
Selected publications/presentations:
Boser, K. Number Representation and Interhemispheric Connectivity In Autism. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, NY, 2005.
Boser K, Boatman D, Gordon B: Hemispheric asymmetries in hierarchical visual processing in autism. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, 2003.
Lathan, C. Boser, K. Frentz C. and Powers K. Using Cosmo's Learning System (CLS) with children with Autism. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technology-based Learning with Disability at WSU, Dayton, OH, July, 2007.
Boser K, Weinrich M, McCall D: Maintenance of oral production in agrammatic aphasia: Verb tense morphology training. Journal of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 2000; 14(2): 105-18.
Boser K, Higgins S, Fetherston A, Preissler MA, Gordon B: Semantic fields in low-functioning autism. Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2002; 32(6) 563-82.
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