Category: December 2024

2nd year grad student, Sonny Russell, and postdoc, Dr. Tyler McFayden, led the recent systematic review, Who, when, where, and why: A systematic review of “late diagnosis” in autism, published in Autism Research. In this review, we sought to understand how late diagnosis is operationalized in autism and how this...

5th year grad student, Orla Putnam, led a recent study using Simon Simplex Collection (SSC) data examining differences between caregiver and teacher report. The study, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, found that teachers reported fewer autism characteristics in females compared to parents, potentially indicative of autistic...

Dr. Harrop and Dr. Wallace (George Washington University) were awarded a two-year NIMH award to characterize eating behavior profiles across a large sample of autistic and non-autistic individuals aged 3 to 39 years. The study aims to understand how profiles of eating vary as a function of sex, age and...