Kourtney Nigh

Dr. Nigh is a Lead Clinical Research Assessment Specialist and Diagnostician at the Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training (KCART) and the Director of the Global Autism Interactive Network (GAIN) at the Life Span Institute housed at the University of Kansas. She received her doctoral training at the University of California-Los Angeles under the mentorship of Dr. Catherine Lord, where she assisted in the development of the Brief Observation of Symptoms of Autism (BOSA) and Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC). Dr. Nigh is an independent trainer on the Autism Diagnostic Schedule- Second Edition (ADOS-2) and Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R). 

Before attending graduate school, Dr. Nigh had a background in special education and worked at the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Nigh has over 15 years of experience conducting ASD evaluations and training in the US and internationally. Her research interests include the early identification of ASD through phenotyping and creating meaningful assessment models for clinicians and families.