54th Gatlinburg Conference 2021

April 5-8, 2021

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Why attend the Gatlinburg Conference?

The Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is one of the premier conferences for behavioral scientists conducting research in intellectual and developmental disabilities. It has a rich history that started in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 1967, and the name of its original location remained. Each year, Gatlinburg Conference brings together researchers and scientists from across the country and the world gather to discuss research and collaborations in the field.

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Theme: Interventions and Clinical Treatments for Intellectual Disabilities

Welcome to the 2021 Gatlinburg Conference in its 54th year. This year’s conference will be entirely online and will be using Hopin Conference Platform. This conference is packed with activities and sessions

Two pre-conference sessions (listed below)
21 symposia
136 poster presentations
Graduate student symposia
Funding Updates from NIH

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Pre-Conference Workshops

Maggie Koerth

Senior Science Writer, FiveThirtyEight

Maggie Koerth is an award winning science journalist. Her work covers diverse topics ranging from electric infrastructure to panda sex to COVID-19.

Science Communications and the Importance of Talking to Non-Scientists

Monday, April 5, 12:00-1:15 PM (CDT)

Neda Sadeghi, PhD

Data Scientist,
Section of Clinical and Computational Psychiatry: Comp-Ψ
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health

Effective Data Visualization

Visualization tools are essential for data exploration and scientific discovery. In this workshop, we explore basic design principles that lead to effective visualizations. We will cover guidelines and demonstrations of these techniques that can be utilized in your own research.

Monday, Wednesday, April 5, 1:30-2:45 PM (CDT)

Plenary Speakers

Nancy Brady PhD

Chair, Speech-Language-Hearing Dept,
Scientist, Life Span Institute,
University of Kansas

Successes and Challenges in Treating Severe Communication Disorders

Tuesday, April 6 9:30-10:30 AM (CDT)

Elizabeth M. Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD

Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics
Rush University Medical Center

Wednesday, April 7, 10:40-11:40 AM (CDT)

Jessica Duis, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Clinical Genetics and Metabolism,
University of Colorado

Road to Therapeutics from A to Z: Lessons Learned from Chromosome 15

Jessica Duis’s talk will be about the steps to therapeutics and how to set up a rare disease for clinical trials. It will focus on outcome measures, natural history, disease concept modeling, partnership for relevant translational studies.

Thursday, April 8, 10:40-11:40 (CDT)

Graduate Student Symposium

Structurally-Specific Lexical Diversity of Minimally Verbal Children with Autism, Claire Klein, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, Weill Cornell Medicine University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Delay of Gratification in 6- to 8-year-olds with Williams Syndrome: Relations with Emotion Regulation and IQ, C. Holley Pitts, University of Louisville

A Multidimensional Investigation of Sensory Processing in Autism: Neurophysiological, Psychophysical, Self-Report, and Parent-Report Measures, Patrick Dwyer, University of California, Davis

Examining Verbal Ability as a Moderator between Mother-Child Relationship Quality and Child Maladaptive Behaviors in ASD, Emily Lorang, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Waisman Center

Spillover of Parenting Stress and Marital Interactions Among Parents of Children with ASD, Megan Krantz, Loma Linda University