Hannah Adams

Hannah Adams

Hannah Adams

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Applied Developmental Psychology: Gender discrepancies in Autism

Hannah Adams is a first year Applied developmental psychology PhD student under the mentorship of Dr. Allison Jack. She graduated Cum Laude from the University of Missouri Kansas City. After graduation Hannah started a research assistantship at the Kansas University Medical Center in the developmental pediatrics department. There she worked on multiple projects including differences in self-determination in people with developmental/intellectual disability and without as well as within gender, the efficacy of a virtual parent/provider and child interaction training, and piloting a course for medical students on different facets of care for persons with disabilities. She hopes to continue her work in the lab on gender differences in autism spectrum disorder. In her free time Hannah likes to cook, read, and play with her corgi, Gus.