Communication in autistic individuals with limited spoken language
- Shen, L., Xu, A., Butler, L. K., Chenausky, K., Maffei, M., Narayanan, S., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2025). Conversational latency in autistic children with heterogeneous spoken language abilities. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, Published online Apr 3, 2025.
- Pecukonis, M., Butler, L. K., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2024). What role does the environment play in language development? Exploring the associations among socioeconomic status, parent language input, and language skills in school‐aged children with autism. Autism Research, Published online Nov 4, 2024.
- La Valle, C., Shen, L., Butler, L. K. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2024). Are minimally verbal autistic children’s modality and form of communication associated with parent responsivity? Autism Research, Published online May 1, 2024.
- Butler, L. K., Shen, L., La Valle, C., Chenausky, K. V., Schwartz, S. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2023). Lexical and morphosyntactic profiles of autistic youth with minimal or low spoken language skills. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(2), 733-747.
- Butler, L. K. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2022). Fine motor skill and expressive language in minimally verbal and verbal school-aged autistic children. Autism Research, 16(3), 630–641.
- Butler, L. K., La Valle, C., Liu, C., Palana, J. B., Schwartz, S., Peterman, N., Shen, L. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2022). Remote natural language sampling of parents and children with autism spectrum disorder: Role of activity and language level. Frontiers in Communication, 7, Published online May 10, 2022.
Brain imaging with functional near-infrared spectroscopy
- Yücel, M., Anderson, J. E., Rogers, D., Hajirahimi, P., Farzam, P., Gao, Y., Kaplan, R., Braun, E. J., Muqadam, N., Duwadi, S., Carlton, L., Beeler, D., Butler, L. K., Carpenter, E., Girnis, J., Wilson, J., Tripathi, V., Zhang, Y., Sorger, B., von Lühmann, A, Somers, D., Cronin-Golomb, A., Kiran, S., Ellis, T. D., & Boas, D. (In press). Inclusivity in fNIRS studies: Quantifying the impact of hair and skin properties on signal quality with practical recommendations for improvement. Nature Human Behavior.
- Butler, L. K., Pecukonis, M., Rogers, D., Tager-Flusberg, H., Boas, D. A., & Yücel, M. A. (2023). The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the production and comprehension of phonologically and semantically related words. Brain Sciences 13 (7), 1113.
- Girolamo, T., Butler, L., Canale, R., Aslin, R. N., & Eigsti, I.-M. (2023). fNIRS studies of individuals with speech and language impairment underreport sociodemographics: A systematic review. Neuropsychology Review, Published online Sept 25, 2023.
- Butler, L. K., Kiran, S., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2020). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in the study of speech and language impairment across the lifespan: A systematic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(3), 1674–1701.
Community-based participatory research
- Papas, A., Couoh Pool, R. M. & Butler, L. K. (In press). Úuch u náacero’ beyo’ — born this way: Experiences of autism and communication in an indigenous Yucatec Mayan family in Mexico and considerations for clinical practice. Perspectives of ASHA SIG 1 Language and Learning.
- Girolamo, T., Butler, L. K., Gali, S., & Johnson, K. (2023). Where is community involvement in open science? A commentary on “(Why) are open research practices the future for the study of language learning.” Language Learning 73(S2), 402-406.
- Butler, L. K. & Couoh Pool, R. M. (2018). Effects of education on the production of plural morphology among bilingual speakers of Yucatec Maya and Spanish. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8(3), 283–319.