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Introduction
Yanru Chen obtained her Ph.D. in the Intellectual Disability and Autism program at Columbia University and is currently a postdoc at the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University. Her research interests include executive function, language development, social communication, and school readiness of autistic children. She is also interested in examining and delivering behavioral interventions to foster development in autistic individuals as a BCBA.
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September 2015 - June 2021
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Children with autism spectrum disorder often demonstrate self-regulation challenges and academic difficulties. Although self-regulation has been well documented as an important factor for academic achievement in neurotypical children, little is known about how it is related to academic learning in autistic children, especially during preschool, a c...
Among the approximately one‐third of autistic individuals who experience considerable challenges in acquiring spoken language and are minimally verbal (MV), relatively little is known about the range of their receptive language abilities. This study included 1579 MV autistic children and adolescents between 5 and 18 years of age drawn from the Nati...
Behavioral inflexibility (BI) refers to the rigid and inflexible patterns of behaviors that are a core aspect of autism. Few studies have investigated BI in autism separately from other restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs). The present study used a relatively new measure, the behavioral inflexibility scale (BIS; Lecavalier, L., Bodfish, J., H...
Background
Language abilities are highly heterogeneous in autism. While a multimodal assessment approach is recommended to capture the language variability, this is not always possible. Therefore, it is important to gain contextual information about different language assessments to determine which assessment is most appropriate for different resea...
Background: Language abilities are highly heterogeneous in autism. While a multimodal assessment approach is recommended to capture the language variability, this is not always possible. Therefore, it is important to gain contextual information about different language assessments to determine which assessment is most appropriate for different rese...
Background: Anxiety is prevalent among autistic individuals, but less is known about different anxiety problems that autistic adolescents and young adults experience and the main behavioral manifestations of their anxiety. This study investigated these issues and the relation between the overall level of anxiety and a range of factors in autistic a...
Objective:
This study synthesized the results of 22 studies (N = 3,912) of feigned posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms that used the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2).
Method:
Robust variance estimation was used to analyze variables that affected the accuracy of scales used to detect feigned symptoms.
Results:
Th...
This study attempts to examine the effects of token versus social attention reinforcement on a performance task by preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to investigate factors that are related to reinforcer preference in this atypical population. A total of 24 students with ASD from two private preschools in the Greater New York City...
This study examined delay of gratification behaviors in preschool-aged children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Recent research has found that elementary-aged children with autism spectrum disorder showed challenges with delay of gratification and that there were individual differences in terms of children’s behaviors during the wait. We...
We tested 49 children between the ages of 18 and 36 months for the presence of the listener half (uni-directional) and full (bi-directional) Naming. Students were provided with Naming experiences which included the presentation of visual and auditory stimuli (participants saw and heard the names of pictures). Tests for uni-directional and bi-direct...
