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EDUCATION

University of Connecticut, 2005 to present
         Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology
         Concentrations: Neuropsychology and Child Clinical Psychology
         Dissertation: Pragmatic language abilities: Working memory influences on mutual information       
 
         M.A. in Clinical Psychology, 2008
         Masters Thesis: Is exposure enough? Narrative development in internationally adopted children

University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001 to 2005  
         B.S. in Psychology (with Honors)
         Honors Thesis: How infants “read”: The effect of exposure when learning abedtime story



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Chicago Medical Center, 2010 to present

         Predoctoral Intern in Clinical Psychology
         Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
         Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry



PUBLICATIONS & MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Eigsti, I. M., Weitzman, C., Joseph, T., Schuh, J.M., de Marchena, A., Casey, B.J. (in press). Language and cognitive outcomes in internationally adopted children. Development and Psychopathology.

Eigsti, I.M., de Marchena, A., Schuh, J.M., & Kelley, E. (2011). Language acquisition in autism spectrum disorders: A developmental review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5(2), 681-691. 


Schuh, J.M.
(2011). Declarative memory. In Kreutzer, et al. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. NY: Springer Publishing.

Eigsti, I. M., & Schuh, J.M. (2008). Neurobiological underpinnings of language in autism spectrum disorders. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 28, 128-149.

Schuh, J.M., Eigsti, I.M., Evans, J., Pollak, S., Miller, J. (2008). Is exposure enough? Narrative development in internationally adopted children. BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. 438-439). Somerville, MA:Cascadilla Press.



MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Schuh, J.M., & Eigsti, I.M. (in prep). Factors influencing working memory in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

Schuh, J.M., Mirman, D., & Eigsti, I.M. (in prep). Finding common ground: How developmental aspects of working memory influence perspective taking in children and adults. 

Schuh, J.M., Mirman, D., & Eigsti, I.M. (in prep). Perspective taking in children with autism: Contributions of working memory and theory of mind on referential communication.



PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Schuh, J.M., Mirman, D., & Eigsti, I.M. (February, 2011). Invited Talk: Perspective taking abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relative contributions of theory of mind and working memory. Talk presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA.

Schuh, J.M., Mirman, D., & Eigsti, I.M. (May, 2010). Perspective taking abilities in children with autism: The influence of working memory and theory of mind on shared knowledge. Talk presented at the 2009 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Philadelphia, PA.

Schuh, J.M., Eigsti, I.M., Evans, J., Pollak, S., & Miller, J. (November, 2007). Is exposure enough? Narrative development in internationally adopted children. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA.



POSTER PRESENTATIONS


Schuh, J.M., Mirman, D., & Eigsti, I.M. (February, 2011). Perspective taking abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relative contributions of theory of mind and working memory. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA.

Bean, J., Schuh, J.M., & Eigsti, I.M. (June, 2010). Central coherence, theory of mind, and the link to real-world social skills: A within-study comparison of children with typical developing and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Chicago, IL.

Schuh, J.M., Mirman, D., & Eigsti, I.M. (June, 2010). Finding common ground: Contributions of working memory and theory of mind to shared knowledge in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Chicago, IL.

Eigsti, I.M., Schuh, J.M., Mencl, E., Schulz, R., & Paul, R. (May, 2009). Neural underpinnings of prosody processing in autism. Poster presented at the 2009 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Chicago, IL.

Schuh, J.M., Mirman, D., Gustafson, T., & Eigsti, I.M. (May, 2009). Do you see what I see? The influence of working memory on shared knowledge in children with autism and typical development. Poster presented at the 2009 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Chicago, IL.

Schuh, J.M., Eigsti, I.M., Mirman, D., & Gustafson, T. (March, 2009). Do you see what I see? The influence of working memory on shared knowledge in children and adults. Poster presented at the 2009 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (SRCD), Denver, CO.

Schuh, J.M., Eigsti, I.M., & Reigler, S. (June, 2008). Narrative development in international adoption: Exposure and individual differences. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Boston, MA.

Schuh, J.M., Eigsti, I.M., Evans, J., Pollak, S., & Miller, J. (November, 2007). Is exposure enough? Narrative development in internationally adopted children. Invited paper presented at the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA.

Schuh, J.M., Eigsti, I.M., Evans, J., Pollak, S., & Miller, J. (November, 2007). Language in international adoption: Exposure and individual differences. Accepted for presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA.

DeGroot, J. M. (July, 2003). Recognition of words in storybook learning by 11 month-olds. Paper presented at the Sophomore Apprenticeship Retreat, University of Wisconsin-Madison.