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Sandra Vanegas, PhD
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Developmental Psychologist; Research Assistant Professor at TCDS at UT-Austin; First-gen, 🇸🇻. Research on Autism/disabilities in underserved communities
Check out our new article! #downsyndrome Relations between communication and motor skills in young children with Down syndrome: a brief report www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Relations between communication and motor skills in young children with Down syndrome: a brief report
Children with Down syndrome (DS) experience delays across multiple developmental domains, including communication and motor coordination. While prior studies have investigated these domains separat...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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My lab has an open post-doc position!

We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.

The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.

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Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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August 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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MoLA 2026! Call for abstracts. More information at molautism.org. If you did not receive this in email, please reach out to us (molautism.org/about/contac...).
July 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Great turnout for our Multilingualism and Autism SIG at #INSAR2025!
May 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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At INSAR’s Caregiver Skills Training SIG. Learning from these pioneer ladies so we can launch CST in Chinese immigrant community soon, very soon! #INSAR2025
May 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Incoming INSAR president Dr Brian Boyd kicks off #INSAR2025 by highlighting the consequences of US funding cuts for autism research.

ECRs: I'm not going to pretend to have any clear solutions. But if you'd find it helpful to have a chat, come find me at INSAR

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April 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Finally arrived in Seattle!Excited for the start of #INSAR2025!
April 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
NIDCD R01 funded!!! Woohoo! Excited to start this new project focused on the early assessment of autism among Latino children! 😊
January 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Please consider nominating (or self-nominating) for the MoLA Advisory Board! Review of nominations will begin 3 Jan 2025. Additional info here: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
MoLA Advisory Board Nominations
The Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA) Organizing Committee is soliciting nominations for a MoLA Advisory Board. The Advisory Board will provide feedback and guidance to the Organizing Committee abo...
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December 6, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,383,945!
September 17, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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October 27, 2023 at 8:26 PM
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October 16, 2023 at 5:59 PM