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Lois Black, Ph.D. Print this page Email this page to a friend!
 
  • Title:  Clinical Psychologist, Child Neuropsychologist, Associate Scientist
  • Current Activities: Associate Scientist, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon.  Research on applications of speech technologies for diagnosis and remediation of communication impairments in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and developmental language disorders. Includes following awarded research grants:  Investigator, Expressive and Receptive Prosody in Autism, National Institutes of Health, January, 2005 - December, 2010; Investigator, Novel Computerized Behavioral Assessment Methods for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, OHSU Foundation, February, 2005 – January, 2006; Research Associate, Prosody Generation for Child Oriented Speech Synthesis, National Science Foundation, August 2002 - July 2007; Investigator, Use of Enhanced Prosody to Improve the Comprehension and Retention of Verbal Information in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Oregon Medical Research Foundation, Oregon Health & Science University, June1 2003 – May 31, 2004; Clinical Psychologist/Child Neuropsychologist,  Psychological and Neuropsychological Services, Brooklyn, New York and Lake Oswego, Oregon.  Integrated neuropsychological-psychodynamic evaluations of children; neuropsychologically informed psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and families.