Although these questions clearly revolve around disparate populations with neurodevelopmental disorders, the central theme of my research is to generate an understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development of the organization and function of the visual system by studying individuals in whom normal cortical development is perturbed. To this end, I use diffusion tensor tracking (DTT), functional MRI (fMRI) and behavioral techniques to examine the extent of alterations in structural and functional connectivity and its behavioral consequences.