… and Follow Topics Research Dr. Karen Chenausky is lead author on paper discussing best practices for collecting and analyzing speech data from minimally verbal … but that’s exactly the research Karen Chenausky is pursuing.  “There is a lot of really rich data that even kids who don't produce very much speech can provide,” said Dr. Chenausky, Director of the MGH Institute’s Speech in Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SPAN) Lab . …