Dr Philippa Howard
BSc, PhD, MSc
Expertise
I aim to understand the language processing differences associated with autism. My core line of research examines the process of reading, to identify why autistic people are vulnerable to comprehension challenges.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education
School of Education
Contact
Press and media
Many of our academics speak to the media as experts in their field of research. If you are a journalist, please contact the University’s Media and PR Team:
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Reading Between the Lines in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/11/2023 to 31/10/2026
Understanding the nature of lexical-semantic processing in autism
Principal Investigator
Description
University Research FellowshipManaging organisational unit
Dates
01/08/2021 to 31/08/2022
Co-reference Links and Autism Spectrum Disorder The Processing of Stereotypical and Definitive gender
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/02/2020 to 01/11/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
22/09/2023No evidence for high inflexible precision of prediction errors in autism during lexical processing
Autism Research
Gender and the formation of co-reference links during reading in autism
Book of Abstracts of the 21th European Conference on Eye Movements in Leicester 2022
“Anything but the phone!”
Autism
What Can Eye Movements Tell Us About Subtle Cognitive Processing Differences in Autism?
Vision
Processing of Co-Reference in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Abstracts of the 19th European Conference on Eye Movements
Teaching
I currently teach on the following courses and units:
BSc Psychology in Education
Exploring and Understanding Autism
MSc Psychology of Education
Autism in Theory and in Practice
BSc Psychology in Education
Exploring and Understanding Autism
MSc Psychology of Education
Autism in Theory and in Practice
