Katharine P. Beals, Ph.D.
Katharine P. Beals, Ph.D., holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago
and worked for 5 years as a senior software engineer in the Natural Language
group of Unisys Corporation before joining the University of Pennsylvania Graduate
School of Education and Drexel University School of Education. Her research
interests include language acquisition, educational software, and the education of
children with autism. She has presented posters at the Autism Association of America
and International Meeting for Autism Research conferences and has published
articles and book chapters on computational linguistics, pragmatics, and autism.
She is also the architect of the GrammarTrainer software program, a comprehensive
English grammar curriculum for children on the autistic spectrum, as well as
the author of Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World (Shambhala, 2009), a
book that addresses issues facing children with autism who are in educational settings.
Finally, she is the parent of a 16-year-old boy on the autistic spectrum.