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IDDRC special issue (2021)

Series Editors: Len Abbeduto, Mustafa Sahin

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders is pleased to present this fourth IDDRC special thematic series focused on the interventions in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and related neurodevelopmental disorders. For more information, please read the editorial by the Series Editors Len Abbeduto and Mustafa Sahin.

This collection of articles is sponsored by the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers (IDDRCs) and articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process. The Series Editors declare no competing interests.


  1. This implementation feasibility study was conducted to determine whether an evidence-based parent-implemented distance-learning intervention model for young children at high likelihood of having ASD could be i...

    Authors: Sally J. Rogers, Aubyn Stahmer, Meagan Talbott, Gregory Young, Elizabeth Fuller, Melanie Pellecchia, Angela Barber and Elizabeth Griffith
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2022 14:3
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  3. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) impacts an individual’s ability to socialize, communicate, and interact with, and adapt to, the environment. Over the last two decades, research has focused on early identificati...

    Authors: Rebecca Grzadzinski, Dima Amso, Rebecca Landa, Linda Watson, Michael Guralnick, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Gedeon Deák, Annette Estes, Jessica Brian, Kevin Bath, Jed Elison, Leonard Abbeduto, Jason Wolff and Joseph Piven
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:49
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  5. Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have lower engagement in their communities, higher rates of unemployment/underemployment, and continued difficulties with challenging behavior compared to their neuro...

    Authors: Leann Smith DaWalt, Emily Hickey, Rebekah Hudock, Amy Esler and Marsha Mailick
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:44
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  6. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with altered sensory processing and perception. Scalp recordings of electrical brain activity time-locked to sensory events (event-related potentials; ERPs) provi...

    Authors: Shlomit Beker, John J. Foxe, John Venticinque, Juliana Bates, Elizabeth M. Ridgeway, Roseann C. Schaaf and Sophie Molholm
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:43
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  7. Social interaction often occurs in noisy environments with many extraneous sensory stimuli. This is especially relevant for youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who commonly experience sensory over-respo...

    Authors: Genevieve Patterson, Kaitlin K. Cummings, Jiwon Jung, Nana J. Okada, Nim Tottenham, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Mirella Dapretto and Shulamite A. Green
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:42
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  8. CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) is associated with refractory infantile onset epilepsy, global developmental delay, and variable features that include sleep, behavioral disturbances, and movement disorders. Cu...

    Authors: Heather E. Olson, Carolyn I. Daniels, Isabel Haviland, Lindsay C. Swanson, Caitlin A. Greene, Anne Marie M. Denny, Scott T. Demarest, Elia Pestana-Knight, Xiaoming Zhang, Ahsan N. Moosa, Andrea Fidell, Judith L. Weisenberg, Bernhard Suter, Cary Fu, Jeffrey L. Neul, Alan K. Percy…
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:40
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  9. Although autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are among the most heritable of all neuropsychiatric syndromes, most affected children are born to unaffected parents. Recently, we reported an average increase of 3–5% ov...

    Authors: Natasha Marrus, Tychele N. Turner, Elizabeth Forsen, Drew Bolster, Alison Marvin, Andrew Whitehouse, Laura Klinger, Christina A. Gurnett and J. N. Constantino
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:39
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  10. Families of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently experience barriers to accessing evidence-based early intervention services. Telemedicine presents an opportunity to increase access to...

    Authors: Laura L. Corona, J. Alacia Stainbrook, Kathleen Simcoe, Liliana Wagner, Bethena Fowler, Amy S. Weitlauf, A. Pablo Juárez and Zachary Warren
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:38
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  11. Approximately 30% of children diagnosed with autism remain minimally verbal past age 5. Interventions are often effective in increasing spoken communication for some of these children. Clinical and research de...

    Authors: Nancy C. Brady, Christine Kosirog, Kandace Fleming and Lindsay Williams
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:36
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  12. Conceptual knowledge frameworks termed schemas facilitate memory formation and are posited to support flexible behavior. In adults, the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) trade-off in ...

    Authors: Kevin M. Cook, Xiaozhen You, Joseph Bradley Cherry, Junaid S. Merchant, Mary Skapek, Meredith D. Powers, Cara E. Pugliese, Lauren Kenworthy and Chandan J. Vaidya
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:35
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  13. This paper reviews a candidate biomarker for ASD, the M50 auditory evoked response component, detected by magnetoencephalography (MEG) and presents a position on the roles and opportunities for such a biomarke...

    Authors: Timothy P. L. Roberts, Emily S. Kuschner and J. Christopher Edgar
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:34
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  14. Identification of ASD biomarkers is a key priority for understanding etiology, facilitating early diagnosis, monitoring developmental trajectories, and targeting treatment efforts. Efforts have included explor...

    Authors: Emily Neuhaus, Sarah J. Lowry, Megha Santhosh, Anna Kresse, Laura A. Edwards, Jack Keller, Erin J. Libsack, Veronica Y. Kang, Adam Naples, Allison Jack, Shafali Jeste, James C. McPartland, Elizabeth Aylward, Raphael Bernier, Susan Bookheimer, Mirella Dapretto…
    Citation: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2021 13:33
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