Dr. Katharine Beals has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and has 5 years experience as a senior linguistic software engineer in the Natural Language Group at Unisys Corp.
She also has extensive experience in teaching and curriculum development in linguistics and English as a second language. The mother of an a deaf and autistic 24 year-old, she spent a decade developing a systematic grammar curriculum for her autistic son to help improve his language skills.
In Autism Language Therapies and the SentenceWeaver Dr. Katharine Beals combines expertise in English grammar, language teaching, and linguistic software design with intimate familiarity with high functioning autism.
