Katharine P. Beals

Katharine Beals, PhD, is a linguist who teaches in the Autism Program at the Drexel University School of Education and the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She specializes in language acquisition in autism and linguistic instruction for autistic students. She is the author of several reviews of linguistic software in language disorders and is the designer of the SentenceWeaver language program. She recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore unmet needs for language teaching tools as experienced by autism parents, autistic support teachers, autism therapists, and speech and language therapists. She is a contributor to the website FacilitatedCommunication.org.