Innovative Technology Advisory Board Biographies
Olga Solomon, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
University of Southern California
Email: olgasolo@usc.edu
Phone: (323) 442-2154
Web: www.petswithpurpose.org/cv.html
Research Assistant Professor
Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
University of Southern California
Email: olgasolo@usc.edu
Phone: (323) 442-2154
Web: www.petswithpurpose.org/cv.html
Dr. Solomon is an applied linguist by training and her research offers an ethnographically informed, developmental perspective on the discourse competence of children at the extremes of the autism spectrum. Her research areas are organization and design of educational environments for children with autism; ethnic and racial diversity; technology and family innovation; and animal assisted therapy. She is a recipient of the Individual Zumberge Faculty Innovation Award for her study “ Animal-Assisted Therapy as Socially Assistive Technology: Implications for Autism” dedicated to the micro-level analysis of the social interaction between children with autism, therapy dogs, family members, and animal trainers. Olga Solomon held a National Academy of Education Post-Doctoral Fellowship to study of communicative practices of children with severe autism and was Research Director of the Ethnography of Autism Project at the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Olga has served as a board member on the Innovative Technology for Autism Initiative (ITA) since 2002. She was the editor with linguistic anthropologist Elinor Ochs of a special issue on autism of the journal Discourse Studies (2004), and with occupational scientist Nancy Bagatell of a special issue on autism of the journal Ethos.
Selected publications:
O.Solomon (in press) What a Dog Can Do: Children with Autism and Therapy Dogs in Social Interaction, Ethos.
O.Solomon (2008) Language, Autism and Childhood: An Ethnographic Perspective. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.
E. Ochs and O. Solomon (2005) ‘Practical Logic and Autism', in R. Edgerton and C. Casey (eds) A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change.
O. Solomon (2004) ‘Narrative Introductions: Discourse Competence of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders', Discourse Studies 6(2).
E. Ochs, O.Solomon and L Sterponi (2005) ‘Limitations and Transformations of Habitus in Child-Directed Communication'. Discourse Studies.
Olga has served as a board member on the Innovative Technology for Autism Initiative (ITA) since 2002. She was the editor with linguistic anthropologist Elinor Ochs of a special issue on autism of the journal Discourse Studies (2004), and with occupational scientist Nancy Bagatell of a special issue on autism of the journal Ethos.
Selected publications:
O.Solomon (in press) What a Dog Can Do: Children with Autism and Therapy Dogs in Social Interaction, Ethos.
O.Solomon (2008) Language, Autism and Childhood: An Ethnographic Perspective. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.
E. Ochs and O. Solomon (2005) ‘Practical Logic and Autism', in R. Edgerton and C. Casey (eds) A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change.
O. Solomon (2004) ‘Narrative Introductions: Discourse Competence of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders', Discourse Studies 6(2).
E. Ochs, O.Solomon and L Sterponi (2005) ‘Limitations and Transformations of Habitus in Child-Directed Communication'. Discourse Studies.
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