Faculty
Joshua J. Diehl
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Dr. Diehl’s research focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders, with an emphasis on autism spectrum disorders and dyslexia. In particular, Dr. Diehl’s work adapts psycholinguistic and neurocognitive paradigms to investigate the language and communication deficits that characterize these disorders.
One current line of research examines the production and comprehension of prosody by individuals with autism. Dr. Diehl is interested in what prosody can tell us about communication and social deficits in autism, and also in prosody’s promise as an early diagnostic marker of the disorder.
A second line of research involves the putative “trade-off” in linguistic and visual processing in dyslexia. Dr. Diehl is investigating whether individuals with dyslexia compensate for phonological processing deficits by using (or developing) exceptional strengths in visual processing. Dr. Diehl uses behavioral measurements and functional neuroimaging to investigate this question.
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Recent publications:
Diehl, J.J. & Berkovitz, L. (in press). Prosody as a diagnostic and cognitive bellwether of autism spectrum disorders. To appear in Speech Disorders: Causes, Treatments, and Social Effects. Nova Publishing.
South, M., & Diehl, J.J. (in press). Neurobiology: fMRI. To appear in E. Hollander, A. Kolevzon, and J. Coyle (Eds.) Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders. American Psychiatric Publishing: Arlington, VA.
Diehl, J.J., Watson, D., Bennetto, L., McDonough, J., & Gunlogson, C. (2009). An acoustic analysis of prosody in high-functioning autism. Applied Psycholinguistics, 30, 1-20.
Diehl, J.J. & Paul, R. (2009). The assessment of prosodic disorders and
neurological theories of prosody. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 11, 287-292
Arnold, J.A., Bennetto, L., & Diehl, J.J. (2009). Reference production in young speakers with and without autism. Cognition, 110, 131-146.
Diehl, J.J., Bennetto, L., Watson, D., Gunlogson, C., & McDonough, J. (2008). Resolving ambiguity: A psycholinguistic approach to prosody processing in high-functioning autism. Brain and Language, 106, 144-152.
Palumbo, D., & Diehl, J.J. (2007). Managing attentional disorders. In Hunter & Donders (Eds.) Pediatric Neuropsychology Interventions (pp. 253-286). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Diehl, J.J., Bennetto, L., & Young, E.C. (2006). Story recall and narrative coherence of high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 83-98.
Young, E.C., Diehl, J.J., Morris, D., Hyman, S.L., & Bennetto, L. (2005). The use of two language tests to distinguish pragmatic language problems in children with autism spectrum disorders. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 36, 62-72.
Contact Information:
128 Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-1641
Email: joshua.diehl@nd.edu