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Language/Communication

Bradshaw, Jessica & Klaiman, Cheryl & Gillespie, Scott & Brane, Natalie & Lewis, Moira & Saulnier, C.. (2018). Walking Ability is Associated with Social Communication Skills in Infants at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Infancy. 23. 10.1111/infa.12242.

Choi, B., Shah, P., Rowe, M., Nelson, C.A. & Tager-Flusberg. (2019). Gesture development, caregiver responsiveness, and language and diagnostic outcomes in infants at high and low risk for autism.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. epub ahead of print.

Kadlaskar, G., Seidl, A., Tager-Flusberg, H., Nelson, C., & Keehn, B.  (2019).  Caregiver-infant audio-tactile communication in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Swanson, M.R., Donovan, K., Paterson, S., Wolff, J.J., Parish-Morris, J., Meera, S.S., Watson, L.R., Estes, A.M., Marrus, N., Elison, J.T., Shen, M.D., McNeilly, H.B., MacIntyre, L., Zwaigenbaum, L., St. John, T., Botteron, K., Dager, S.,& Piven, J.; IBIS Network. (2019). Early language exposure supports later language skills in infants with and without autism. Autism Research, epub ahead of print.

West, K.L., Northrup, J.B., Leezenbaum, N.B., & Iverson, J.M. (2019). The relation between walking and receptive language in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder. Child Development, 90, e356-e372.

Wolff, J.J., Dimian, A.F., Botteron, K.N., Dager, S.R., Elison, J.T., Estes, A.M., Hazlett, H.C., Schultz, R.T., Zwaigenbaum, L., & Piven, J.; IBIS Network. (2019). A longitudinal study of parent-reported sensory responsiveness in toddlers at-risk for autism. J Child
Psychol Psychiatry, 60, 314-324. 

Finch, K.H., Tager-Flusberg, H. & Nelson, C.A. (2018). Neural responses to linguistic stimuli in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. European Journal of Neuroscience, 47, 709-719. 

 

Iverson, J.M., Northrup, J.B., Leezenbaum, N.B., Parladé, M.V., Koterba, E.A., & West, K.L. (2018). Early gesture and vocabulary development in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 55-71. 

Caravella, K.E., & Roberts, J.E. (2017). Adaptive skill trajectories in infants with fragile X syndrome contrasted to typical controls and infants at high risk for autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 40, 1-12. 

Chenausky, K., Nelson, C. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2017). Vocalization rate and consonant production in toddlers at high and low risk for autism. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 60, 865-876. 

Chenausky, K., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2017). Acquisition of voice onset time in toddlers at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 10(7), 1269-1279. 

Edmunds, S.R., Ibanez, L.V., Warren, Z., Messinger, D.S., & Stone, W.L. (2017). Longitudinal prediction of language emergence in infants at high and low risk for ASD. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 319-329. 

Edwards, L.A., Wagner, J.B., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Nelson, C.A. (2017). Differences in neural correlates of speech perception in 3 month olds at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47, 3125-3138. 

Finch, K.H., Seery, A.M., Talbott, M.R., Nelson, C.A. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2017). Lateralization of ERPs to speech stimuli and handedness in the early developmental of autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 9, 4. 

Hahn, L.J., Brady, N.C., McCary, L., Rague, L., & Roberts, J.E.  (2017).  Early social communication in infants with fragile X syndrome and infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder.  Research in Developmental Disabilities, 71, 169-180. 

Perdue, K.L., Edwards, L.A., Tager-Flusberg, H. & Nelson, C.A. (2017). Differing developmental trajectories in heart rate responses to speech stimuli in infants at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(8), 2434-2442. 

 

Swanson, M.R., Shen, M.D., Wolff, J.J., Boyd, B., Clements, M., Rehg, M., ... & Gu, H. (2017). Naturalistic home language recordings reveal “hypervocal” infants at high familial risk for autism. Child Development, 89(2), e60-e73. 

Lazenby, D.C., Sideridis, G.D., Huntington, N., Prante, M., Dale, P.S., Curtin, S., … & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2016). Language differences at 12 months in infants who develop autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(3), 899-909. 

LeBarton, E.S., & Iverson, J.M. (2016). Associations between gross motor and communicative development in at-risk infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 44, 59-67. 

LeBarton, E.S., & Iverson, J.M. (2016). Gesture development in toddlers with an older sibling with autism. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 51(1), 18-30. 

Tager-Flusberg, H. (2016). Risk factors associated with language in autism spectrum disorder: Clues to underlying mechanisms. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 59(1), 143-154. 

Talbott, M., Nelson, C.A., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2016). Maternal vocal feedback to 9-month-old infant siblings of children with ASD. Autism Research, 9(4), 460-470. 

Chita-Tegmark, M., Arunachalam, S., Nelson, C.A. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2015). Eye-tracking measurements for language processing: Developmental differences in children at high risk for ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(10), 3327-3338. 

Drumm, E., Byrson, S., Zwaigenbaum, L., & Brian, J. (2015). Language-related abilities in 'unaffected' school-aged siblings of children with ASD. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 18, 83-96. 

Ference, J. & Curtin, S. (2015). The ability to map differentially stressed labels stressed labels to objects predicts language development at 24 months in 12-month-olds at high risk for autism. Infancy, 20(3), 242-262. 

Key, A.P., Ibanez, L.V., Henderson, H.A., Warren, Z., Messinger, D.S., & Stone W.L. (2015). Positive affect processing and joint attention in infants at high risk for autism: An exploratory study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(12), 4051-4062. 

Miller, M., Young, G.S., Hutman, T., Johnson, S., Schwichtenberg, A.J., & Ozonoff, S. (2015). Early pragmatic language difficulties in siblings of children with autism: Implications for DSM-5 social communication disorder? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56(7), 774-781. 

Northrup, J.B. & Iverson, J.M. (2015). Vocal coordination during early parent-infant interaction predicts language outcome in high-risk infants. Infancy, 20(5), 523-547. 

Parladé, M.V. & Iverson, J.M. (2015). The development of coordinated communication in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(7), 2218-2234. 

Talbott, M.R. Nelson, C.A., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2015). Maternal gesture use and language development in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(1), 4-14. 

Brian, J.A., Roncadin, C., Duku, E., Bryson, S.E., Smith, I.M., Roberts, W., … & Zwaigenbaum, L. (2014). Emerging cognitive profiles in high-risk infants with and without autism spectrum disorder.Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(11), 1557-1566. 

Chawarska, K., Shic, F., Macari, S., Campbell, D.J., Brian, J., Landa, R., ... & Bryson S. (2014). 18-month predictors of later outcomes in younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder: A baby siblings research consortium study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(12), 1317-1327. 

Hudry, K., Chandler, S., Bedford, R., Pasco, G., Gliga, T., Elsabbagh, M., ... & Charman T. (2014). Early language profiles in infants at high-risk for autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44(1), 154-167. 

Leezenbaum, N.B., Campbell, S.B., Butler, D.M., & Iverson, J.M. (2014). Maternal verbal responses to communication of infants at low and heightened risk for autism. Autism, 18(6), 694-703. 

Righi, G., Tierney, A.L., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Nelson, C.A. (2014). Functional connectivity in the first year of life in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder: An EEG study. PLOS One, 9, e105176. 

Seery, A., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Nelson, C.A. (2014). Event-related potentials to repeated speech in 9-month-old infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 6, 43. 

Bedford, R., Gliga, T., Frame, K., Hudry, K., Chandler, S., Johnson, M. H., ... & the BASIS Team. (2013). Failure to learn from feedback underlies word learning difficulties in toddlers at-risk for autism. Journal of Child Language, 40(1), 29-46. 

Keehn, B., Wagner, J., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Nelson, C.A. (2013). Functional connectivity in the first year of life in infants at-risk for autism: A preliminary near-infrared spectroscopy study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 444. 

Landa, R., Gross, A.L., Stuart, E.A., & Faherty, A. (2013). Developmental trajectories in children with and without autism spectrum disorders: The first 3 years. Child Development, 84(2), 429-442. 

LeBarton, E.S., & Iverson, J.M. (2013). Fine motor skill predicts expressive language in infant siblings of children with autism. Developmental Science, 16(6), 815-827. 

Malesa, E., Foss-Feig, J., Yoder, P., Warren, Z., Walden, T., & Stone, W.L. (2013). Predicting language and social outcomes at age 5 for later-born siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 17(5), 558-570. 


Messinger, D., Young, G.S., Ozonoff, S., Dobkins, K., Carter, A., Zwaigenbaum, L., ... & Sigman, M. (2013). Beyond autism: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium study of high-risk children at three years of age. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(3), 300-308. 

Seery, A.M., Vogel-Farley, V., Tager-Flusberg, H. & Nelson, C.A. (2013). Atypical lateralization of ERP response to native and non-native speech in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 10-24. 

Winder, B.M., Wozniak, R.H., Parladé, M.V., & Iverson, J.M. (2013). Spontaneous initiation of communication in infants at low and heightened risk for autism spectrum disorders. Developmental Psychology, 49(10), 1931-1942.

Bhat, A.N., Galloway, J.C., & Landa, R.J. (2012). Relation between early motor delay and later communication delay in infants at risk for autism. Infant Behavior and Development, 35(4), 838–846. 

Flanagan, J.E., Landa, R., Bhat, A., & Bauman, M. (2012). Head lag in infants at risk for autism: A preliminary study. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66(5), 577–585. 

Gliga, T., Elsabbagh M., Hudry K., Charman T, Johnson M.H., & The BASIS Team. (2012). Gaze following, gaze reading and word learning in children at-risk for autism. Child Development, 83(3), 926-938. 

Hess, C., & Landa R. (2012). Predictive and concurrent validity of parent concern about young children at risk for autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(4), 575-584. 

Landa, R.J., Gross, A.L., Stuart, E.A., & Bauman, M. (2012). Latent class analysis of early developmental trajectory in baby siblings of children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(3), 986-996. 

Sheinkopf, S.J., Iverson, J.M., Rinaldi, M.L., & Lester, B.M (2012). Atypical cry acoustics in 6-month old infants at-risk for autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 5(5), 331-339. 

Luyster, R.J., Seery, A., Thompson, M.R., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2011). Identifying early-risk markers and developmental trajectories for language impairment in neurodevelopmental disorders. Developmental Disabilities Research Review, 17(2), 151-159. 

Paul, R., Fuerst, Y., Ramsay, G., Chawarska, K., & Klin, A. (2011). Out of the mouths of babes: Vocal production in infant siblings of children with ASD. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(5), 588-598.

Bhat, A.N., Galloway, J.C.,  & Landa, R.J. (2010). Social and non-social visual attention patterns and associative learning in infants at risk for autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(9), 989-997. 

Young, G.S., Merin, N., Rogers, S.J., & Ozonoff, S. (2009). Gaze behavior and affect at 6 months: Predicting clinical outcomes and language development in typically developing infants and infants at risk for autism. Developmental Science, 12(5), 798-814.

Iverson, J.M. & Wozniak, R.H. (2007). Variation in vocal-motor development in infant siblings of children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(1), 158-170. 

 

Landa R, & Holman, K.C., & Garrett-Mayer E. (2007). Social and communication development in toddlers with early and later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64(7), 853-864. 

Presmanes, A.G., Walden, T.A., Stone, W.L., & Yoder, P.J. (2007). Effects of different attentional cues on responding to joint attention in younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(1), 133-144.

Stone, W.L., McMahon, C.R., Yoder, P.J., & Walden, T.A. (2007). Early social-communicative and cognitive development of younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 161(4), 384-390. 

Sullivan, M., Finelli, J., Marvin, A., Garrett-Mayer, E., Bauman, M., & Landa, R. (2007). Response to joint attention in toddlers at risk for autism spectrum disorder:  A prospective study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(1), 37-48. 

Landa, R., & Garrett-Mayer, E. (2006). Development in infants with autism spectrum disorders: A prospective study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(6), 629-638. 

Mitchell, S., Brian, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Roberts, W., Szatmari, P., Smith, I., & Bryson, S. (2006). Early language and communication development of infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 27(Supplement 2), S69-S78. 

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