Megan Roberts, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a professor in the Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her work focuses on improving access to effective early intervention for toddlers with developmental delays (e.g., autism, hearing loss). This clinically-based line of research examines new ways of identifying autism and different variations of caregiver-mediated communication interventions tailored specifically for different populations of children. Her research has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Institute of Education Sciences.
Lab
Early Intervention Research Group
Education
- PhD, Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
- MS, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Emerson College
- BA, Spanish and Economics, University of Rochester
Selected Publications
- Roberts, M., Sone, B., Jones, M., Grauzer, J., Sudec, L., Stern, Y., Kwok, E., Losh, M., & Kaat, A. (2022). One size does not fit all for parent-mediated autism interventions. Autism.
- Lee, J., Kaat, A., & Roberts, M. (2022). Involving caregivers of autistic toddlers in early intervention: Common practice or exception to the norm. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
- Sone, B., Kaat, A., & Roberts, M. (2021). Measuring parent strategy use in early interventions: Reliability and validity of the NDBI-FI across strategy use types, Autism, 25(7), 2101-211.
- Roberts, M., Curtis, P., Sone, B., & Hampton, L. (2019). The association of parent training with child language development: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics, 173(17), 671-680.
- Roberts, M., Stern, Y., Hampton, L., Grauzer, J., Miller, A., Levin, A., Kornfeld, B., Davis, M., Kaat, A., & Estabrook, E. (2019). Beyond pass-fail: Examining the potential utility of two thresholds in the autism screening process. Autism Research, 12, 112-122.
Honors and Awards
- Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence 2021
- Trainee, Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health, National Institutes of Health 2018
- Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring, School of Communication, Northwestern University 2016
- Early Career Contributions in Research Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2015
Courses
- CSD 458 Scientific Clinical Decision Making
- CSD 550-2 Experimental Design in Communication Sciences and Disorders