Susan Leekam

Summary

Affiliation: University of Durham
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Attention and joint attention in preschool children with autism
    S R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, England
    Dev Psychol 36:261-73. 2000
  2. ncbi The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: algorithms for ICD-10 childhood autism and Wing and Gould autistic spectrum disorder
    Susan R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:327-42. 2002
  3. ncbi Dyadic orienting and joint attention in preschool children with autism
    Susan R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, DH1 3LE, Durham, England
    J Autism Dev Disord 36:185-97. 2006
  4. ncbi Describing the sensory abnormalities of children and adults with autism
    Susan R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 37:894-910. 2007
  5. ncbi Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds
    Susan Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1131-8. 2007
  6. ncbi The frequency of restricted and repetitive behaviors in a community sample of 15-month-old infants
    Bronia Arnott
    Department of Psychology, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
    J Dev Behav Pediatr 31:223-9. 2010
  7. ncbi The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use
    Lorna Wing
    Centre for Social and Communication Disorders, Bromley, Kent, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:307-25. 2002
  8. ncbi Do children with autism fail to process information in context?
    Beatriz Lopez
    School of Sports Science and Psychology, York St John College, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:285-300. 2003
  9. ncbi How central is central coherence? Preliminary evidence on the link between conceptual and perceptual processing in children with autism
    Beatriz Lopez
    University of the West of England, UK
    Autism 12:159-71. 2008

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi Attention and joint attention in preschool children with autism
    S R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, England
    Dev Psychol 36:261-73. 2000
    ..The relation between this problem and autistic children's difficulties with human communicative signals is discussed...
  2. ncbi The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: algorithms for ICD-10 childhood autism and Wing and Gould autistic spectrum disorder
    Susan R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:327-42. 2002
    ..In addition to its primary clinical purpose of helping the clinician to obtain a developmental history and description of the child or adult concerned, it can also be used to assist in providing a formal diagnostic category...
  3. ncbi Dyadic orienting and joint attention in preschool children with autism
    Susan R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, DH1 3LE, Durham, England
    J Autism Dev Disord 36:185-97. 2006
    ..These findings indicate that dyadic orienting difficulties are found alongside triadic joint attention difficulties in children with autism...
  4. ncbi Describing the sensory abnormalities of children and adults with autism
    Susan R Leekam
    Department of Psychology, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 37:894-910. 2007
    ..Age and IQ level affects some sensory symptoms however. Clinical and research implications are discussed...
  5. ncbi Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds
    Susan Leekam
    Department of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1131-8. 2007
    ..The current study investigated the frequency and factor structure of repetitive behaviours in a large community sample of 2-year-olds...
  6. ncbi The frequency of restricted and repetitive behaviors in a community sample of 15-month-old infants
    Bronia Arnott
    Department of Psychology, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
    J Dev Behav Pediatr 31:223-9. 2010
    ..To investigate the frequency and pattern of a wide range of restricted and repetitive behaviors in the second year of life...
  7. ncbi The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use
    Lorna Wing
    Centre for Social and Communication Disorders, Bromley, Kent, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:307-25. 2002
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  8. ncbi Do children with autism fail to process information in context?
    Beatriz Lopez
    School of Sports Science and Psychology, York St John College, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:285-300. 2003
    ..Given evidence of visuo-spatial proficiency in autism in other areas of functioning, it is possible that the ability to use context is spared in the visual domain but impaired in the verbal domain...
  9. ncbi How central is central coherence? Preliminary evidence on the link between conceptual and perceptual processing in children with autism
    Beatriz Lopez
    University of the West of England, UK
    Autism 12:159-71. 2008
    ..Classification data further confirmed this finding and indicated the possibility of the presence of subgroups in autism. The results add to emerging evidence suggesting that central coherence is not a unitary construct...