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Kristen Bottema-Beutel
Professor
Kristen Bottema-Beutel
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion Hall Room 113
Telephone: 617-552-0368
Email: kristen.bottema-beutel@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-0009-9464
Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
- M.A., San Francisco State University
- B.S., University of Michigan
Courses
Contemporary Issues: Neurodiversity, Ableism, and Learning
Discourse Analysis
Foundations of Autism
Educating Autistic Students
Dissertation Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction
Research Interests
Social interaction dynamics in autistic children, youth, and adults; educational strategies to promote peer interaction, social development, and academic engagement in autistic youth; social and language development in young autistic children; decision making processes regarding peer inclusion, research ethics, research quality.
Expertise
- Cognitive and Social Development
- Disabilities & Special Education
Department
Publications
Bottema-Beutel, K., Guo, R., Hinson-Williams, J., Shen, Y., LaPoint, S.C., Woynaroski, T., & Sandbank, M. (in press). Conceptualizing and measuring “problem behavior” in early intervention autism research: A Project AIM secondary systematic review. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Bottema-Beutel, K., Zisk, A.H., Zimmerman, J., & Yu, B. (2025). Editorial: Conceptualizing and describing autistic language: Moving on from “verbal”, “minimally-verbal”, and “non-verbal”. Autism, 29(6), 1367-1373.
Bottema-Beutel, K. (in press). Methodological considerations for incorporating students with disabilities into educational psychology theory and practice. Educational Psychologist.
Bottema-Beutel, K., Sasson, N.J., McKinnon, R., Braun, C., R.,Guo, R., Hand, B., Kapp, S., Espinas, D.R., Bailin, A., Lester, J.N., & Yu, B. (2024). Recognizing and resisting ableist language in schools: Suggestions for school-based speech language pathologists and related professionals. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in the Schools, 55(4), 1025-1038.
Bottema-Beutel, K. (2024). Putting autism research in social contexts. Autism, 28(7), 1597-1601.
Bottema-Beutel, K., McKinnon, R., Mohiuddin, S., LaPoint, S.C., & Kim, S.Y. (2024). Problems with “problem behavior”: A secondary systematic review of intervention research with transition-age autistic youth. Autism, 28(8), 1872-1888.
Sandbank, M., Bottema-Beutel, K., La Point, S.C., Feldman, J.I., Barrett, D.J., Caldwell, N., Dunham, K., Crank, J., & Woynaroski, T. (2023). Autism intervention meta-analysis (Project AIM) 2: A living systematic review and meta-analysis of each childhood autism intervention studies. The BMJ, 383, e076733.
Bottema-Beutel, K., Sandbank, M., & Woynaroski, T. (2023). Introduction to some ethical issues in autism intervention research: Research design and reporting. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8(6), 1238-1247.
Bottema-Beutel, K., Crowley, S., Kim, S.Y., Mohiuddin, S., Yu, Q., & McKinnon, R. (2023). An evaluation of intervention research for transition-age autistic youth. Autism, 27(4), 890-904.
Bottema-Beutel, K., Crowley, S., & Kim, S.Y. (2022). Sequence organization of autistic children’s play with caregivers: Rethinking follow-in directives. Autism, 26(5), 1267-1281.
Select Grants
2025 – 2030 Co-Principal Investigator. Effectiveness of Caregiver Mediated Interventions: A Culturally Inclusive Trial of Toddlers with DD. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute ($13,699,014). PI: Megan Y. Roberts
2022 - 2027 Co-Investigator. Sensory Project in Infant/Toddler Siblings of Children with Autism (Project SPIS). National Institutes of Health ($3,155,239). PI: Tiffany Woynaroski
2024 – 2025 Principal Investigator. Refinement and Validation of Neurodiversity Knowledge and Attitudes Assessments for School-age Children. Boston College IGNITE Grant ($30,000)
2023 – 2025 Principal Investigator. Using Conversation Analysis to Understand Interactions between School Professionals and Autistic Students in Inclusive Classrooms – Extension to Boston Public Schools. Argyelan Family Foundation Award, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College ($35,000)
2018- 2020 Principal Investigator. Developmental Relationships between Joint Engagement and Vocabulary in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. National Institutes of Health ($156,500)
Honors & Awards
- 2023 Ally to the Autistic Community Award, Autistic Self Advocacy Network
- 2011 William T. and Helen S. Halstead Fellowship, administered by the Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
- 2011 Institute of Human Development Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Berkeley
- 2007-2011 Special Education Leadership Preparation Fellowship, San Francisco State University
- 2010 University Research Fellowship Award, UC Berkeley
- 2009 Shea Family Fellowship, UC Berkeley
- 2009 Graduate Division Mentored Research Award, Alternate, UC Berkeley