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Kristen Bottema-Beutel
Professor
Kristen Bottema-Beutel
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion Hall Room 113
Telephone: 617-552-0368
Email: kristen.bottema-beutel@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
- M.A., San Francisco State University
- B.S., University of Michigan
Courses
Contemporary Issues: Neurodiversity, Ableism, and Learning
Discourse Analysis
Foundations of Autism
Educating Autistic Students
Dissertation Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction
Research Interests
Social interaction dynamics in autistic children, youth, and adults; educational strategies to promote peer interaction, social development, and academic engagement in autistic youth; social and language development in young autistic children; decision making processes regarding peer inclusion, research ethics, research quality.
Expertise
- Cognitive and Social Development
- Disabilities & Special Education
Department
Publications
1. Sandbank, M., Bottema-Beutel, K., La Point, S.C., Feldman, J.I., Barrett, D.J., Caldwell, N., Dunham, K., Crank, J., & Woynaroski, T. (in Press). Autism intervention meta-analysis (Project AIM)
2: A living systematic review and meta-analysis of each childhood autism intervention studies. The BMJ. 2. Bottema-Beutel, K., Kapp, S.K., Sasson, N., Gernsbacher, M.A., & Natri, H. Botha, M. (in press). Anti-ableism and scientific accuracy in autism research: A false dichotomy. Frontiers in Psychiatry. Submitted to a special issue, Autism: Break the Stigma.
3. Bottema-Beutel, K., Kim, S.Y., LaPoint, S.C., Mohiuddin, S., Yu, Q., & McKinnon, R. (in press). Social Validity in autism intervention research for transition age autistic youth. Exceptional Children.
4. Bottema-Beutel, K., Crowley, S., Kim, S.Y., Mohiuddin, S., Yu, Q., & McKinnon, R. (2023). An evaluation of intervention research for transition-age autistic youth. Autism, 27(4), 890-904.
5. Bottema-Beutel, K., Crowley, S., & Kim, S.Y. (2022). Sequence organization of autistic children鈥檚 play with caregivers: Rethinking follow-in directives. Autism, 26(5), 1267-1281.
6. Bottema-Beutel, K., Kapp, S., Lester, J. N., Sasson, N., & Hand, B. (2021). Avoiding ableist language: Suggestions for autism researchers. Autism in Adulthood, 3(1), 18-29.
7. Bottema-Beutel, K., & Kim, S.Y. (2021). A systematic literature review of autism research on caregiver talk. Autism Research, 14(3), 432-449.
8. Bottema-Beutel, K., Kim, S.Y., Crowley, S., & Yoder, P.J. (2021). Developmental associations between joint engagement and autistic children鈥檚 vocabulary: A cross-lagged panel analysis. Autism, 25(2), 566-575.
9. Bottema-Buetel, K., Crowley, S., Sandbank, M., & Woynaroski, T. (2021). Adverse event reporting in intervention research for young autistic children. Autism, 25(2), 322-335.
10. Bottema-Beutel, K., Crowley, S., Sandbank, M., & Woynaroski, T. (2021). Conflicts of interest (COIs) in autism early intervention research: A meta-analysis of COI influences on intervention effects. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(1), 5-15.