Research Topics
| REBECCA JEAN LANDASummaryAffiliation: Kennedy Krieger Institute Country: USA Publications
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Assessment of social communication skills in preschoolersRebecca J Landa
Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 11:247-52. 2005..Hove, UK: Psychology press). Regardless of whether the measures presented herein were initially designed for children with autism or not, they will provide insights into the social communicative behaviors or tendencies in young children...
Language, social, and executive functions in high functioning autism: a continuum of performanceRebecca J Landa
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 35:557-73. 2005..Relationships between EF, language, and social performance were weak to non-existent. Implications for theories of core deficit in autism and dissociable nature of the language and executive impairments in autism are discussed...
Development in infants with autism spectrum disorders: a prospective studyRebecca Landa
The Kennedy Krieger Institute, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, MD 21211, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:629-38. 2006..Little is known about when or how development becomes disrupted in the first two years of life in autism. Such information is needed to facilitate early detection and early intervention...
Early communication development and intervention for children with autismRebecca Landa
Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 13:16-25. 2007..Finally, issues related to the design and delivery of intervention for young children with autism are presented, along with a review of the major early intervention approaches for autism...
Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in the first 3 years of lifeRebecca J Landa
Kennedy Krieger Institute, 3901 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA
Nat Clin Pract Neurol 4:138-47. 2008..Early detection of-and intervention to treat-ASD is crucial because it is likely to lead to an improved outcome...
Intervention targeting development of socially synchronous engagement in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized controlled trialRebecca J Landa
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:13-21. 2011..We evaluated the impact of supplementing a comprehensive intervention with a curriculum targeting socially synchronous behavior on social outcomes of toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)...
Neuroanatomic variation in monozygotic twin pairs discordant for the narrow phenotype for autismWendy R Kates
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:539-46. 2004..The authors examined the relationship of twin pair differences in clinical phenotype to differences in neuroanatomic phenotype...
Autobiographical memory and suggestibility in children with autism spectrum disorderMaggie Bruck
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, CMSC 346, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 3325, USA
Dev Psychopathol 19:73-95. 2007..In addition, they were as suggestible as the typically developing children. The results are discussed in terms of applied and theoretical implications...
Social and communication development in toddlers with early and later diagnosis of autism spectrum disordersRebecca J Landa
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21211, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:853-64. 2007..To our knowledge, no prospective studies of the developmental course of early and later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders from 14 months of age exist...
Research Grants
- Autism: Social And Communication Predictors in SiblingsREBECCA JEAN LANDA; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- 3/3-Multisite RCT of Early Intervention for Spoken Communication in AutismREBECCA JEAN LANDA; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- 3/3-Multisite RCT of Early Intervention for Spoken Communication in AutismRebecca Landa; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Autism: Social And Communication Predictors in SiblingsRebecca Landa; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- NEUROBIOLOGIC ORIGINS AND INNOVATIVE TREATMENT OF AUTISMRebecca Landa; Fiscal Year: 2007..Taken as a whole, the projects should add significantly to our knowledge of the ontogeny of autism and thereby lead to the development of novel treatment approaches. ..
- Autism: Social And Communication Predictors in SiblingsRebecca Landa; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Autism: Social And Communication Predictors in SiblingsRebecca Landa; Fiscal Year: 2005..In addition, a sample of infants at no known risk for autism (having no developmental disorder) will be included as a basis of comparison of joint attention, communication, and affect development in non-ADS autism sibs. ..
- 3/3-Multisite RCT of Early Intervention for Spoken Communication in AutismRebecca Landa; Fiscal Year: 2009....
