Len Abbeduto, PhD, is the director of the MIND Institute, the Tsakopoulos-Vismara Endowed Chair, and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Abbeduto’s research is focused broadly on the development of language across the lifespan in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders and the family context for language development.

Dr. Abbeduto has published more than 190 articles, chapters, reviews, and books on Fragile X syndrome, autism, Down syndrome, intellectual disabilities, and child development. His program of research has been funded nearly continuously by NIH since 1985. His current research is focused on understanding variation in language outcomes in various neurodevelopmental disorders, the measurement of treatment effects in clinical trials, and the use of distance technology in behavioral treatment. He serves as PI/PD of the NICHD-funded MIND Institute Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, which provides core support to more than 70 projects and 40 scientists at the UC Davis MIND Institute.