The Sturm Lab mission is to promote equity and access for neurodivergent youth and adults across contexts of life including school, the workplace, and health care.

The Sturm Lab focuses specifically on the experiences of neurodivergent women, and how women uniquely experience barriers across life contexts. These goals are accomplished through (1) research to advance the tools we use to measure neurodivergent traits, (2) inquiry into life experiences, and (3) evaluation and creation of interventions for the individual and to support access.

Collaboration is critical to our research program. We collaborate with researchers across the U.S. from many different fields including autism research, pain research, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, and reproductive endocrinology. The lab is advised by a group of neurodivergent individuals who are similarly committed to our shared mission. The lab is also supported by an amazing team of undergraduate students.