haebig

Eileen Haebig

Ph. D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor

Email: ehaebig1@lsu.edu

Website: faculty.lsu.edu/netlab/

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Location: 85 Hatcher Hall

 

 

About Me

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, 2015

M.S. Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, 2010

B.A. Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2008

Research Interests

Eileen Haebig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Louisiana State University and the director of the Language and Neurodevelopmental Trajectories Lab (Language NeT Lab). Dr. Haebig’s research focuses on language learning in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. She uses a multi-level approach to address her overarching research questions. As such, her research has incorporated behavioral coding, eye tracking, clinical assessments, and event related brain potentials (ERPs) to examine language learning and processing in children, with a particular focus on children who are on the autism spectrum and children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Dr. Haebig’s research has highlighted areas of overlap and distinction in language phenotypes across populations with neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism, developmental language disorder, and fragile X syndrome).

Research Description and Lab Video Tour

Courses 

COMD 4382 Language Disorders in Children

COMD 7384 Early Communication Intervention

COMD 7780 Seminar in Word Learning and Word Processing in Children

COMD 7790 Professional Development and Ethical Issues in COMD

Representative Publications

  • Mitu, F., & Haebig, E., (2026). The influence of social word features on early word learning in   autistic and non-autistic children. Behavioral Sciences, 16(1), p. 26-43,  https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16010026
  • Haebig, E., West, S., & Cox, C. R. (2025). Vocabulary development in autistic children: A network growth analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70076
  • Haebig, E., West, S., Jiménez, E., Hills, T. T., & Cox, C. R. (2025). Network analysis of autistic language learners along the small world spectrum. Autism Research, 18(8), p. 1580-1594, https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.70065
  • Cox, C. R., & Haebig, E. (2023). Child-oriented word associations improve models of early word learning. Behavior Research Methods. 55(1), 16-37, dio: 10.3758/s13428-022-01790-y
  • Haebig, E., Jiménez, E., Cox, C., & Hills, T. T. (2021). Characterizing the early vocabulary profiles of preverbal and minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism.25(4), 985-970, doi:10.1177/1362361320973799
  • Haebig, E., Leonard, L. B., Deevy, P., Schumaker, J., Karpicke, J., & Weber, C. (2021). The Neural underpinnings of processing newly taught semantic information: The role of retrieval practice, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(8), 3195-3211.
  • Haebig, E., Leonard, L. B., Deevy, P., Karpicke, J., Christ, S. L., Usler, E., ... & Weber, C. (2019). Retrieval-based word learning in young typically developing children and children with development language disorder II: A comparison of retrieval schedules. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(4), 944-964.
  • Haebig, E., Leonard, L., Usler, E., Deevy, P., & Weber, C. (2018). An initial investigation of the neural correlates of word processing in preschoolers with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(3), 729-739.
  • Haebig, E., Saffran, J., & Ellis Weismer (2017). Statistical word learning in children with autism spectrum disorder and specific language impairment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(11).
  • Haebig, E., Weber, C., Leonard, L. B., Deevy, P., & Tomblin, J. B. (2017). Neural indices of language processing in adolescents with language impairment: An assessment of language trajectories. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 9, 1-22.
  • Haebig, E., Sterling, A., & Hoover, J. (2016). Examining the language phenotype in children with typical development, specific language impairment, and fragile X syndrome. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(5), 1046-1058.
  • Ellis Weismer, S., Haebig, E., Edwards, J., Saffran, J., & Venker, C. E. (2016). Lexical processing in toddlers with ASD: Does weak central coherence play a role? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(12), 3755-3769.
  • Haebig, E., Kaushanskaya, M., & Ellis Weismer, S. (2015). Lexical processing in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder and children with specific language impairment: The role of semantics. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 45(12), 4109-4123.
  • Haebig, E., McDuffie, A., & Weismer, S. E. (2013). The contribution of two categories of parent verbal responsiveness to later language for toddlers and preschoolers on the autism spectrum. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 22(1), 57-70.

Research Grants

  • Department of Defense DHP - Autism Research Program 2025 - 2028
    • Pilot Clinical Trial of an App-Based Motor Skills Intervention for Reducing Motor Difficulties in Autistic Children
    • Role: co-I    $750,000
  • National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) R21 Early Career Researcher award - 2022 - 2025

    • Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder

    • Role: PI   $535,785

  • Research Competitiveness Subprogram - Louisiana Board of Regents grant, 2020 - 2023
    • Word Knowledge in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Developing Lexicon
    • Role: PI    $123,574
  • ASHA New Invstigators Research Grant
    • Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
    • Role: PI     $10,000
  • LSU Manship Summer Stipend 2019 Award
  • Council on Research Summer Stipend 2018 Award
  • NIH F31 DC013485 Predoctoral Fellowship (2013 – 2015).
  • Emma Allen Foundation Grant (2015).
  • Vickie Lord Larson and James R. Larson Research Grant (2015).

Awards & Technical Training

  • 2022 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award 
  • 2017 Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) Research Reliability Training and Certification 
  • 2015 – 2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health Training Grant (T32 DC000030-24, PI: Laurence Leonard
  • 2016 Trainee for ASHA’s Lessons for Success program, National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (U13 DC007835 11, PI: Margaret Rogers)
  • 2016 Trainee for the ERP Boot Camp, National Institute of Mental Health (R25 MH080794 10, PI: Steven Luck)
  • 2011 – 2013 Predoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health Training Grant (T32 DC05359-06, PI: Susan Ellis Weismer)

Professional Memberships

  • Louisiana Board of Examiners – Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (2017 – present)
  • American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), Certificate of Clinical Competence
  • Society for Research in Child Language Development (2009 – 2015)
  • Wisconsin Speech-Language-Pathology and Audiology Association (2004 – 2015)