Kristen Bottema-Beutel
Professor
Biography
Kristen Bottema-Beutel (she/her) pairs qualitative and quantitative research methods to better understand autistic communication, language, and sociality, and to develop school-based strategies to support autistic students' inclusion. More recently, she has explored meta-science topics such as researcher ethics and research quality in intervention research for autistic children and youth, and ableism in autism research more generally. She is a deputy editor of the journal Autism in Adulthood and an Associate Editor of the journal Autism. Dr. Bottema-Beutel is the director of the master's level autism certificate, a program that prepares future special educators to support autistic students. She earned her master’s degree from San Francisco State University and her doctorate from University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Lynch School in 2013, she was the IES Postdoctoral Fellow in Special Education Intervention Research at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Special Education.
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Courses taught
- EDUC4101 Readings and Research in Curriculum and Instruction
- EDUC6497 Educating Autistic Students
- EDUC7101 Readings and Research In Curriculum and Instruction
- EDUC9201 Discourse Analysis
- EDUC9737 Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Education
- EDUC9911 Doctoral Continuation
- EDUC9988 Dissertation Direction