Category: March 2021

Dr. Harrop was recently interviewed by Spectrum News about our experience with online data fraud and our Letter to the Editor “Big Data, Big Problem?” The Q&A detailed what happened with our online study, our decision to document the problem, and steps to safeguard against this in the future. The full article...

Dr. Harrop was part of a team of authors, led by Desi Jones (former RA, now PhD student at UT Dallas), that published the first study extending the NIH Toolbox to autistic youth in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. The NIH Toolbox is an iPad based measure that provides quick...

Dr. Harrop recently published an article in Autism Research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early career researchers (ECRs) in Autism Research. The article describes the findings of a survey, led by Autism Science Foundation. Unsurprisingly, ECRs have struggled with COVID and their level of burnout is high. A high number of ECRs have...

Former PhD Student and Postdoc, Aaron Dallman, had a paper from his dissertation published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. The manuscript, on which Dr. Harrop is a co-author, describes the use of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to characterize fluctuations in affect and mood in autistic adolescents. We are excited to...

The Harrop Lab had three poster abstracts accepted to the 2021 International Society for Autism Research Conference. Jessie will present data from the National Survey of Child Health focused on sex, race and ethnicity differences in diagnosis in ASD. Aaron Dallman (former PhD student and postdoc, now faculty at Towson University) will...

Jessie Goldblum received a Student Travel Award for the 2021 International Society for Autism Research Conference. The award was for her virtual poster “The impact of demographic variables on rates of co-occurring conditions, the timing of ASD diagnosis, and frustration in access to services: Data from a large national survey” and covered...

Developmental Psychology Graduate Student, Jessie, successfully defended her master’s thesis in March. Her thesis, “Hiding in Plain Sight: An Analysis of the ‘Female Camouflage Effect’ in Young Autistic Females”, examined how autistic males and females use joint attention and requesting in discreetly different ways. Congratulations Jessie!