EARLY DETECTION OF AUTISM There will be a special program this Thursday, August 3rd at 5:30 PM featuring Jana M. Iverson, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh (see bio below). She will be speaking about her research on the Early Detection of Autism. Please join us for this great program in the Board Room at the Union Project on the corner of Stanton and N. Negley and pass the word to others. A wine and cheese reception will be served. This program is presented by the Kiwanis Club of East Liberty which meets every Thursday at 5:30 PM at the Union Project. If you are interested in more information about the program or the club, please contact Susy Robison at work (412)392-4839, <srobison@pittsburghsymphony.org> Visitors and new members are always welcome at our meetings. Save the Date: Thursday, August 17th at 5:30 PM at the Union Project Steve Scalese, psychologist, will be speaking about Use of the Brain. Jana Iverson Bio. Before coming to Pittsburgh, Jana received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago (1996), spent two years in postdoctoral research at Indiana University, and served on the faculty for four years in the Psychology Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Since 1991, she has been an international investigator at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy. She is the co-editor of a book and author of more than a dozen articles on the relationship between hand gestures and language in children’s communication. Her current research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Alliance for Autism Research/Autism Speaks, focuses on the early development of infant vocalizations and motor skills and the transition to gesture and language in typically-developing infants and in infants who are at especially high risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.