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Narrowing the broader autism phenotype: a study using the Communication Checklist-Adult Version (CC-A)Andrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, PO Box 855, West Perth, Western Australia 6872, Australia
Autism 14:559-74. 2010..The findings provide evidence for the existence of more constrained pragmatic phenotypes in autism. Molecular genetic studies in this area may benefit from stratifying samples according to these phenotypes...- Perinatal testosterone exposure and autistic-like traits in the general population: a longitudinal pregnancy-cohort studyAndrew Jo Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, Western Australia, 6008, Australia
J Neurodev Disord 4:25. 2012..abstract:.. 
Sex-specific associations between umbilical cord blood testosterone levels and language delay in early childhoodAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:726-34. 2012..Preliminary evidence suggests that prenatal testosterone exposure may be associated with language delay. However, no study has examined a large sample of children at multiple time-points...- Do hypertensive diseases of pregnancy disrupt neurocognitive development in offspring?Andrew J O Whitehouse
Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, West Perth, WA, Australia
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 26:101-8. 2012..There was no effect of the two- (P = 0.99) or three-level (P = 0.92) predictor variable on RCPM scores. Maternal hypertensive diseases of pregnancy are a risk factor for a small reduction in offspring verbal ability... - Maternal serum vitamin D levels during pregnancy and offspring neurocognitive developmentAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Subiaco, Australia
Pediatrics 129:485-93. 2012..To determine the association between maternal serum 25(OH)-vitamin D concentrations during a critical window of fetal neurodevelopment and behavioral, emotional, and language outcomes of offspring... - Brief report: a preliminary study of fetal head circumference growth in autism spectrum disorderAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, Perth, WA, 6008, Australia
J Autism Dev Disord 41:122-9. 2011..These preliminary findings suggest that further investigation of fetal growth in ASD is warranted... - Is there a sex ratio difference in the familial aggregation of specific language impairment? A meta-analysisAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco 6008, Western Australia
J Speech Lang Hear Res 53:1015-25. 2010..indirect assessment via questionnaire/interview) or relative type (sibling vs. parent)... - Fetal head circumference growth in children with specific language impairmentAndrew J O Whitehouse
Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Arch Dis Child 97:49-51. 2012..To characterise fetal brain growth in children with specific language impairment (SLI)... - Duration of breast feeding and language ability in middle childhoodAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 25:44-52. 2011..This compared with an increase of 3.56 points at age 5 years. Breast feeding for longer periods in early life has a positive and statistically-independent effect on language development in middle childhood... - Brief report: autistic-like traits in childhood predict later age at menarche in girlsAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
J Autism Dev Disord 41:1125-30. 2011..1) or 'low' (n = 47; M = 12.66 years; SD = 1.13 years) levels of these behaviors. These data further establish a link between the autism phenotype and later AAM and may provide insights into the etiology of the condition... - CNTNAP2 variants affect early language development in the general populationA J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Genes Brain Behav 10:451-6. 2011..We propose that these CNTNAP2 variants increase susceptibility to SLI or autism when they occur together with other risk factors... - No association between early gastrointestinal problems and autistic-like traits in the general populationAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 53:457-62. 2011..The aim of this study was to determine whether gastrointestinal problems in early childhood relate to autistic-like traits in a general population sample... - Late talking and the risk for psychosocial problems during childhood and adolescenceAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Subiaco, Western Australia
Pediatrics 128:e324-32. 2011..The aim of this study was to determine whether late talkers are at increased risk for behavioral and emotional problems during childhood and adolescence... - Are autistic traits in the general population stable across development?Andrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e23029. 2011..Despite the constraints of using different measures and different raters at the two ages, this study found modest developmental stability of social AT from early childhood to adulthood in boys... - Fetal androgen exposure and pragmatic language ability of girls in middle childhood: implications for the extreme male-brain theory of autismAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:1259-64. 2010..These novel findings are discussed with reference to the 'extreme male-brain' theory of autism... - Free testosterone levels in umbilical-cord blood predict infant head circumference in femalesAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 52:e73-7. 2010..We report the association between circulating fetal androgen levels, measured from umbilical-cord blood at birth, and a proxy measure of brain growth: head circumference... - Reliability of a novel paradigm for determining hemispheric lateralization of visuospatial functionAndrew J O Whitehouse
Center for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 15:1028-32. 2009..These findings indicate that the use of the spatial memory task with fTCD is a robust methodology for examining laterality of visuospatial skills... - Hemispheric division of function is the result of independent probabilistic biasesAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Neuropsychologia 47:1938-43. 2009..The findings are consistent with a statistical view of functional asymmetry, in which hemispheric biases for verbal and visual functions reflect probabilities relating to independent causal sources... - Adult psychosocial outcomes of children with specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and autismAndrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Int J Lang Commun Disord 44:511-28. 2009..It is not yet clear whether these outcomes vary between individuals with different subtypes of language impairment... - The broader language phenotype of autism: a comparison with specific language impairmentAndrew J O Whitehouse
University of Oxford, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:822-30. 2007..Whether these behaviours are indicative of a common underlying genetic cause or a superficial similarity is unclear... - Further defining the language impairment of autism: is there a specific language impairment subtype?Andrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford Study of Children s Communication Impairments, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
J Commun Disord 41:319-36. 2008..Readers will then be taken through a detailed comparison of the language and memory abilities of group of children with each diagnosis. A theoretical model that seeks to explain the relation between these two disorders will be discussed... - Delivery at 37 weeks' gestation is associated with a higher risk for child behavioural problemsMonique Robinson
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 53:143-51. 2013..Advances in obstetric care have been accompanied by increasing rates of intervention which often involve elective delivery at 37 weeks, soon after term gestation has been achieved... - Do children with autism 'switch off' to speech sounds? An investigation using event-related potentialsAndrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK
Dev Sci 11:516-24. 2008..However, they use top-down inhibition to attenuate responses to repeated streams of speech. This suggests that problems with speech processing in this population involve efferent pathways... - Where were those rabbits? A new paradigm to determine cerebral lateralisation of visuospatial memory function in childrenMargriet A Groen
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Neuropsychologia 49:3265-71. 2011..As such, it holds promise for investigating development of lateralisation of visuospatial function in typically and atypically developing children... - Qualitative aspects of developmental language impairment relate to language and literacy outcome in adulthoodAndrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Int J Lang Commun Disord 44:489-510. 2009..Developmental language disorder is a heterogeneous diagnostic category. Little research has compared the long-term outcomes of children with different subtypes of language impairment... - Maternal life events during pregnancy and offspring language ability in middle childhood: The Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort StudyAndrew J O Whitehouse
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Early Hum Dev 86:487-92. 2010..There is accumulating evidence for a link between maternal stress during pregnancy and later behavioural and emotional problems in children. Little research has examined other developmental outcomes... - Hypertensive diseases of pregnancy predict parent-reported difficult temperament in infancyMonique Robinson
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia School of Women s and Infants Health, The University of Western Australia at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Australia School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
J Dev Behav Pediatr 34:174-80. 2013..Recent research has linked hypertensive diseases of pregnancy with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood and adulthood. This study aimed to establish whether such effects are observed in infancy... - Autism and diagnostic substitution: evidence from a study of adults with a history of developmental language disorderDorothy V M Bishop
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Dev Med Child Neurol 50:341-5. 2008..Some children who would nowadays be diagnosed unambiguously with autistic disorder had been diagnosed with developmental language disorder in the past. This finding has implications for our understanding of the epidemiology of autism... - Umbilical cord blood testosterone and childhood internalizing and externalizing behavior: a prospective studyMonique Robinson
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
PLoS ONE 8:e59991. 2013.... - Evaluating the twin testosterone transfer hypothesis: a review of the empirical evidenceAimee L Tapp
Neurocognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia
Horm Behav 60:713-22. 2011.... - Androgen concentrations in umbilical cord blood and their association with maternal, fetal and obstetric factorsJeffrey A Keelan
School of Women s and Infants Health, King Edward Memorial Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e42827. 2012..Caution should be exercised when interpreting previously-published data that have not taken all of these factors into account... - Cerebral dominance for language function in adults with specific language impairment or autismAndrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
Brain 131:3193-200. 2008..3%). These findings suggest that atypical cerebral dominance is not implicated in all cases of poor language development (i.e. ASD and SLI-history groups), but may act as a biological marker of persisting SLI... 
Evidence against poor semantic encoding in individuals with autismAndrew J O Whitehouse
University of Western Australia, Australia
Autism 11:241-54. 2007..The findings do not support the idea of a developmental delay in semantic encoding in children with autism...- Breastfeeding duration and academic achievement at 10 yearsWendy H Oddy
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, PO Box 855, Perth, Western Australia 6872, Australia
Pediatrics 127:e137-45. 2011..The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between duration of breastfeeding and educational outcomes. We hypothesized that longer periods of breastfeeding would predict better educational outcomes in middle childhood... - The association between perinatal testosterone concentration and early vocabulary development: A prospective cohort studyLauren P Hollier
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco, WA 6007, Australia Neurocognitive Development Unit, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Electronic address
Biol Psychol 92:212-5. 2013..Higher circulating prenatal testosterone concentrations at birth may be associated with reduced vocabulary in early childhood among boys... - Inner speech impairments in autismAndrew J O Whitehouse
University of Western Australia, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:857-65. 2006..Three experiments investigated the role of inner speech deficit in cognitive performances of children with autism... - Friendship, loneliness and depression in adolescents with Asperger's SyndromeAndrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Adolesc 32:309-22. 2009..The findings indicate that increased levels of negative affect may be related to the poor quality of social relationships often reported in this population... - No clear genetic influences on the association between dyslexia and anxiety in a population-based sample of female twinsAndrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Dyslexia 15:282-90. 2009..Future research should seek to identifying the environmental factors that increase the vulnerability of individuals with dyslexia to emotional problems should be a priority for future research... - The recruitment and retention of speech and language therapists: what do university students find important?Andrew J O Whitehouse
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
J Allied Health 36:131-6. 2007..The implications of these findings for educators and professional bodies are discussed... - The dyslexia candidate locus on 2p12 is associated with general cognitive ability and white matter structureThomas S Scerri
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e50321. 2012.... - Are prenatal ultrasound scans associated with the autism phenotype? Follow-up of a randomised controlled trialYonit K Stoch
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
J Autism Dev Disord 42:2693-701. 2012..6 %) groups, nor a difference between groups in the level of autistic-like traits in early adulthood. There is no clear link between the frequency and timing of prenatal ultrasound scans and the autism phenotype...