Kasia Chawarska, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center with expertise in experimental developmental psychology and developmental disorders. She earned her graduate degree at the Yale Department of Psychology and completed her post-graduate training at the Yale Autism Program. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and the Director of Toddler Developmental Disabilities at the CSC. Dr. Chawarska's research has been focused on abnormalities in action monitoring, gaze perception, and face recognition in toddles with developmental disorders as well as in infants at risk for ASD. She leads the Yale Early Social Cognition Lab. She is an author of a number of articles on early syndrome expression and diagnosis of ASD. Recently, she co-edited a book on ASD in infants and toddlers focused on issues associated with assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.