Connie Wong is a research investigator at FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before coming to FPG, she was an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Special Education in the Department of Teacher Education at Cleveland State University and was the Principal Investigator of an Autism Speaks-funded intervention project targeting the facilitation of joint attention and symbolic play in young children with autism through classroom teachers. She received her doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education from UCLA and her prior experiences include teaching in early childhood special education classrooms for children with autism and other special needs in the public schools.