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Quantifying temporal aspects of low-level multisensory processing in children with autism spectrum disorders: a psychophysical study
(2008-07-31)
Sensory disturbances and difficulties integrating multisensory information are reported frequently in clinical and autobiographical reports of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD); however, there is surprisingly little empirical ...
Positive psychological growth in mothers of children with a developmental disability and its correlates with child and maternal characteristics
(2008-07-31)
Research on maternal adjustment following the addition of a child with a developmental disability has been greatly influenced by the Double ABCX model. A near constant across all previous studies using the Double ABCX ...
Training teachers to promote pretend play in children with disabilities
(2007-07-31)
The effects of training teachers to implement an intervention designed to promote pretense behaviors in children with disabilities were examined using a multiple probe design. Teachers were trained to use a system of least ...
Insights into the Human Fragile X Syndrome Gene Family Using Drosophila melanogaster
(2011-11-22)
Fragile X syndrome, resulting from the loss of function of the hFMR1 gene, is the most common heritable cause of intellectual disability. The human genome also encodes two closely related paralogs: hFXR1 and hFXR2. Drosophila ...
Shared Positive Affect: An Early Behavioral Risk Marker for Autism Spectrum Disorders?
(2009-11-09)
PSYCHOLOGY
SHARED POSITIVE AFFECT: AN EARLY BEHAVIORAL RISK MARKER FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS?
CAITLIN R. MCMAHON
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Wendy L. Stone
This project examined the early ...
A Bayesian framework to integrate genomic annotations for identification of Autism risk genes
(2020-11-10)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of complex neurodevelopment disorders with a strong genetic basis. Large scale sequencing studies have provided strong evidence for dozens of ASD risk genes. However, it is estimated ...
The Psychometrics of Several Neural Measures of Lexical Access in Children with Autism
(2015-03-24)
Lexical access, the cognitive process of finding a word in one’s mental lexicon (part of the process of word recognition), is an important part of the development of receptive and expressive language. Before we can test ...
Predicting expressive language abilities from early intentional communication in younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder
(2015-10-14)
This paper examines the relation between intentional communication (i.e., declaratives, imperatives) observed at 12-19 months and expressive language abilities observed one year subsequently, comparing younger siblings of ...
Understanding Mediators and Moderators of an Adaptive Communication Intervention for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(2018-07-22)
This study examines mediators and moderators of the communication outcomes for young preverbal children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who participated in a randomized control trial of an adaptive communication ...
Lag Schedules and Functional Communication Training: A Replication
(2019-07-18)
Challenging behavior (CB) is prevalent among young children with disabilities and may stem from a reduced ability to clearly communicate their wants and needs. Functional communication training (FCT) is an evidence-based ...