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Rebecca Landa, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, is the founder and executive director of the Center for Autism Services, Science, and Innovation (previously known as CARD) at Kennedy Krieger Institute, where she is vice president. She is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Landa obtained her doctorate from the University of Washington. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Psychiatric Genetics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Landa has practiced clinically in public schools, university clinics and hospital settings. She consults with schools, universities, and families internationally to establish state-of-the-science educational and speech-language pathology programming for children with, or at risk for, communication disorders, including autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Landa takes a translational science and public health approach in her measure development, early detection, developmental science, intervention science, and implementation science research. She participates in policy-related efforts to improve health care and education for children with, or at risk for, communication disorders. She has received numerous prestigious awards, such as ASHA Honors of the Association and INSAR Fellow. Through her translational science public health initiative, Bundle of Learning\u00ae, Dr. Landa provides strategically designed, science-informed children\u2019s books and story-related materials to improve young children\u2019s language, emergent literacy, social, and play development and adults\u2019 use of potent language stimulation strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Disclosure: Dr. Landa is a paid employee of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She has ownership interest in Bundle of Learning and has NIH grants as well as a grant through the Simonds Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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