Current Projects
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Actively Recruiting
Studying Outcomes of Autistic Individuals Transitioning to Adulthood (SOAR)
This study looks at how changes in self-care, domestic, and community skills influence quality of life as autistic individuals transition out of high school; and how self-determination, executive function skills, and access to services influence daily living skills.
Email: datodd@childrensnational.org to participate!
Contacto en español: Alejandro Todd & Dr. Allison Ratto, datodd@childrensnational.org
Social and Nonsocial Decision-Making in Autism
This project looks at social and non-social decision making in children, adolescents, and adults with and without autism on behavioral and neural levels.
Autism Center of Excellence Network: Neurodevelopmental Biomarkers of Late Diagnosis in Autism (ACE)
We are part of a team of Autism Centers of Excellence conducting a study of people on the autism spectrum to better understand their experience of diagnosis and their quality of life.
Email: eblack@childrensnational.org to participate!
Not Actively Recruiting
Extension of Community Health Outcomes (ECHO) Autism
ECHO Autism aims to "move knowledge, not patients" by using a tele-mentoring format that allows community providers to access support from autism specialists in diagnosing, treating and caring for autistic children and their families.
Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy Study
This study aims to better understand the neurobiology of sex chromosome aneuploidies to provide insights into the biology of sex-differences, genetic regulation of brain organization, and mechanisms of genetic risk for common psychiatric syndromes.
Unstuck & On Target for Early Childhood
Unstuck & On Target for Early Childhood is an intervention aimed at promoting executive functioning skills in preschool and early childhood students with executive function challenges and developmental disabilities.
Unstuck & On Target: High School, Clinic-based Trial
Through using the Unstuck & On Target: High School curriculum, this project examines the neural mechanisms behind how autistic adolescents learn, and how their learning impacts executive function outcomes.
Unstuck & On Target: High School, School-based Trial
The goal of this study is to learn if the executive function intervention, Unstuck & On Target, works when taught in high schools.