Ashley Brooke de Marchena, PhD
Ashley Brooke de Marchena PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Education
BA, Tufts University
MA, PhD, University of Connecticut
Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Interests
Autism spectrum disorder
Language and communication
Neuropsychology
Synopsis
Professor de Marchena’s research focuses on the behavioral presentation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She is broadly interested in communication in ASD, including pragmatic language, nonverbal communication, and language acquisition. She is also interested in how hard-to-describe qualitative features of behavior and interaction (for example, “oddness” of posture or “awkwardness” of social approach) drive other people’s reactions to those with ASD, both in clinical contexts and everyday encounters.
Professor de Marchena’s teaching interests including topics in clinical, developmental, and cognitive psychology. She is developing a new course on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and currently teaches Fundamentals of Clinical Research Methods and Abnormal Psychology.
Selected Scholarly Activity
de Marchena, A. & Miller, J. (in press). ‘Frank’ presentations as a novel research construct and element of diagnostic decision-making of autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research.
de Marchena, A. & Eigsti, I.M. (2016). The art of common ground: Emergence of a complex pragmatic language skill in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Language, 43(1), 43-80.
de Marchena, A., Eigsti, I.M., Worek, A., Ono, K., & Snedeker, J. (2011). Mutual exclusivity in autism spectrum disorders: Testing the pragmatic hypothesis. Cognition, 119(1), 96-113.
de Marchena, A. & Eigsti, I.M. (2010). Conversational gestures in autism spectrum disorders: Asynchrony but not decreased frequency. Autism Research, 3(6), 311-322.
Professional Information
Trained Clinical Psychologist with expertise in autism diagnosis.
Contact Information
| Office location: | Kline Hall, 214 |
| Mailing address: | Box 103 University of Sciences 600 South 43rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495 |
| Office Phone: | 267-295-3138 |
| Office Fax: | 215-596-7625 |
| Email: | a [dot] demarchena [at] usciences [dot] edu |