Weyland Marielle

Marielle Weyland, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Speech in Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SPAN) Lab at MGH Institute of Health Professions, under the mentorship of Dr. Karen Chenausky. She is supported by a Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) fellowship. Dr. Weyland completed her PhD in Psychology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Université de Mons (Belgium), where her dissertation examined quantitative and qualitative analyses of (pre)verbal productions in children with elevated- and low-likelihood of autism. Prior to joining the SPAN Lab, she was a postdoctoral researcher and project coordinator on the Belgian Language in Autism Study (BeLAS), a national multi-centric consortium investigating predictors of language trajectories in autistic children. Her research focuses on early vocal and speech development in autism, including canonical babbling, preverbal productions, and the use of phonetics and perceptual measures to characterize speech atypicality at pre- and early-verbal stages. She is particularly interested in holistic analyses combining kinematic, phonetic, and acoustic measures of productions from preverbal and minimally verbal individuals. Before transitioning to research, Dr. Weyland worked as a clinical speech-language pathologist specializing in autism diagnosis and intervention for five years.