Helen Tager-Flusberg is an American psychologist who is professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Science at Boston University and the Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).
[1] She is the Director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University.
[4] Tager-Flusberg was President of the International Society for Autism Research (2011–2013),[3] and served on the National Deafness and Communication Disorders Advisory Council from 2012 to 2016.
[citation needed] She is on the editorial boards of Autism and Autism Research;[5] and an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychology[5] and is Associate Editor for the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
[4] Ken Wexler, a professor of cognitive science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: "If you asked somebody, 'Who are the famous people studying language in autism?'