Laura S Cubit, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Research Psychologist, Center for Autism Research & Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Clinical Director, Early Detection and Development Lab, Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
Center for Autism Research
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2716 South Street, 5th floor, #5361
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2716 South Street, 5th floor, #5361
Philadelphia, PA 19146
Office: 267-425-1122
Email:
cubitl@chop.edu
cubitl@chop.edu
Education:
BS (Biopsychology, Spanish)
Tufts University, 2010.
MA (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2015.
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2019.
Permanent linkBS (Biopsychology, Spanish)
Tufts University, 2010.
MA (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2015.
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
University of Rochester, 2019.
Selected Publications
Cola, M., Knox, A., Russell, A., Lyons, M., Covello, M., Schillinger, S., Lee, A., Uzokwe, J., Fulop, L., Cho, S., Liberman, M., Yankowitz, L. D., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J.: Identifying the right reference group: Non-autistic girls produce the most social language during a picture description task. Poster presentation at the International Society for Autism Research 2024 Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia May 2024.Zampella, C.J., Pargi, M.K., Sariyanidi, E., Drye, M., Megginson, G., Craig, S., Acheampong, J., Iglio, L., Abdullah, R., Fecher, M., Benecke, R., Ramsey, K.L., Flanagan, A.Y., Cubit, L.S., Schultz, R.T., Tunc, B., & Guthrie, W.: Automated quality control procedures to improve accuracy of computer vision tools for early autism screening. Poster presentation at the International Society for Autism Research 2024 Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia May 2024.
Knox, A., Tena, K. G., Lyons, M., Cola, M., Russell A. S., Fulop, L., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J.: Do social challenges predict behavioral compensation in autistic adolescents? Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning, College Park, MD April 2024.
Knox, A., Tena, K. G., Lyons, M., Cola, M., Russell A. S., Fulop, L., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J.: Do social challenges predict behavioral compensation in autistic adolescents? Cognitive Science Student Conference, Newark, DE April 2024.
Cola, M., Lyons, M., Knox, A., Russell, S., Covello, M., Schillinger, S., Lee, A., Uzokwe, J., Fulop, L., Cho, S., Liberman, M. Y., Yankowitz, L.D., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., Pandey, J. Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J. : What a feeling!: Sex differences in emotion language during a wordless storybook task. Oral presentation at the Meeting on Language in Autism, Durham, NC March 2024.
Rahhal, S., Farmer, C., Thurm, A., Wassif, C.A., Cawley, N.X., Perreault, J., Do, A.D., Bianconi, S., Hannah-Shmouni, F., Guthrie, W., Cubit, L.S., Miller, J.S., Sutton, V.R., Koeberl, D., Porter, F.D.: Elevated amyloid beta peptides and total tau in cerebrospinal fluid in individuals with Creatine transporter deficiency. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports 37: 101001, December 2023.
Guthrie, W., Zampella, C. J., & Cubit, L. S.: Screening for developmental deceleration across domains: a new strategy for early autism detection. Oral presentation at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden May 2023.
Zampella, C. J., Drye, M., Sariyanidi, E., Fecher, M., Megginson, G., Craig, S., Wang, L. A., Steinbeck, L. K., Ramsey, K. L., Flanagan, A. Y., Benecke, R. M., Cubit, L. S., Tunc, B., Schultz, R. T., & Guthrie, W.: Refining computational facial analysis of infants to advance early autism screening. Poster presentation at the International Society for Autism Research 2023 Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden May 2023.
Cola, M., Cho, S., Knox, A., Russell, A. S., Covello, M., Pelella, M. R., Hauptmann, A., Zampella, C. J., Cubit, L. S., Pandey, J., Schultz, R. T., & Parish-Morris, J.: Profiles of acoustic diversity during autistic children’s natural conversations. Poster presentation at the International Society for 2023 Autism Research Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden May 2023.
Sariyanidi, E., Zampella, C.J., Drye, M.N., Fecher, M.L., Megginson, G., Cubit, L.S., Schultz, R.T., Guthrie, W., Tunc, B.: Reconstructing 3D Face of Infants in Social Interactions Using Morphable Models of Non-Infants. Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval Sept 2022.