The National Institutes of Health has awarded Dr. Harrop a $3.28 million, five-year R01 research grant to chart the impact of assigned sex at birth on developmental trajectories in young autistic children. The project will help characterize how development in autism varies by assigned sex with the goal of informing future sex-sensitive screening protocols and … Read more
In September, we welcome Stephanie Bristol to the lab as a graduate research assistant. Stephanie is a 4th year Occupational Science student who previously worked with Dr. Linda Watson as part of the Parents and Infants Engaged Project. Stephanie will be working across many of our current and future projects as an assessor. Welcome Stephanie!
Dr. Harrop and a team of co-authors recently published an article in the American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities extending the Behavioral Inflexibility Scales (Boyd, Bodfish, Lecavalier, and Harrop, 2018) to a sample of children with Down syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome. The findings suggest that while inflexibility is common in these conditions, it is … Read more