Shelby Grebbin

Editorial Assistant

Shelby Grebbin was Spectrum’s editorial assistant. Before joining Spectrum, she was staff assistant at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. As a freelance journalist, she has covered stories related to public health, data transparency and prison health care. Shelby has a B.A. in journalism from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Spectrum

By Shelby Grebbin

18 May 2022

4 min read

Researchers publish new dataset on minimally verbal autistic people

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the first repository of vocalizations from minimally verbal autistic people. Those with few or no spoken words still produce a range of phonemes, or units of sound, that may serve as developmental markers or intervention targets.

Spectrum

Researchers publish new dataset on minimally verbal autistic people

By Shelby Grebbin

18 May 2022 | 4 min read

Spectrum

By Shelby Grebbin

7 April 2022

5 min read

Autism and menopause: Q&A with Rachel Moseley and Julie Turner-Cobb

Menopause poses significant challenges for autistic people, according to a small survey published in 2020 — the first to explore the transition among people with autism traits.

Spectrum

Autism and menopause: Q&A with Rachel Moseley and Julie Turner-Cobb

By Shelby Grebbin

7 April 2022 | 5 min read

Spectrum

By Shelby Grebbin

21 March 2022

6 min read

Web-based autism screening service raises a host of concerns

Neurona Health, a company in San Francisco, California, backed away from part of its newly launched services after Spectrum started reporting about them.