Professor Tony Charman
- Qualifications and position:
- BA, MSc (C. Clin. Psychol), PhD
- Chair in Autism Education
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- Summary:
- My main research interest is the investigation of early social cognitive development in children with autism and the clinical application of this work via screening, epidemiological, intervention and 'at risk' studies. I am a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and work in a clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust where I work in a diagnostic service for children with complex neurodevelopmental conditions.
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- Conferences/presentations:
- 'Does understanding the cognitive phenotype help us in understanding the behavioral phenotype of autism?' Keynote presentation at Brain Research meeting. San Diego, CA, November 2010.
'Developmental approaches to understanding and treating autism', Keynote presentation at the 28th Word Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Athens, August 2010.
'Characterising the cognitive phenotype of autism spectrum disorder', The Simons Initiative on Autism and the Brain series, MIT, Boston, February 2010
'Developmental approaches to understanding and treating autism', Keynote presentation at Congreso Internacional de Autismo, Toledo, February 2010.
Publications
- Riches, N. G., Loucas, T., Charman, T., Simonoff, E. & Baird, G. (2011) 'Non-word repetition in adolescents with specific language impairment and autism plus language impairment: a qualitative analysis', Journal of Communication Disorders 44, 23-36.
- Charman, T. (2011) 'Glass half full or half empty? Testing social communication interventions for young children with autism (invited commentary)', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 52, 22-23.
- Holmboe, K., Elsabbagh, M., Volein, A. Tucker, L., Baron-Cohen, S., Bolton, P., Charman, T. & Johnson, M. H. (2010) 'Atypical attention and inhibitory control in the infant broader autism phenotype', Infant Behaviour and Development 33, 482-491.
- Hudry, K., Leadbitter, K., Temple, K., Slonims, V., McConachie, H., Aldred, C., Charman, T. & the PACT Consortium (2010) 'Preschoolers with autism show greater impairment in receptive compared to expressive language abilities', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 45, 681-690.
- Millar, Y., Glaser, D., Reilly-Johnson, N. L., Hurst, S. L., Harris, K., Skerry, C. & Charman, T. (2010) 'Delivering child community psychology services in the community: experiences from the NIPPERS (Nursery Intervention Project for Parents & Education Related Services) project', Child and Adolescent Mental Health 15, 134-141.
- Green, J., Charman, T., McConachie, H., Aldred, C., Slonims, V., Howlin, P., Le Couteur, A., Leadbitter, K., Hudry, K., Byford, S., Barrett, B., Temple, K., Macdonald, K., Pickles, A. & the PACT Consortium (2010) 'Parent-mediated communication-focused treatment in children with autism (PACT); a randomised controlled trial', The Lancet 375, 2152-2160.
- Charman, T. (2010) 'Developmental approaches to understanding and treating autism.', Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 62, 166-177.
- Loucas, T., Riches, N., Baird, G., Charman, T., Pickles, A., Simonoff, E., Chandler, S., Meldrum, D. (2010) 'Speech perceptual and phonological short-term memory deficits in language impairment: Evidence from adolescents with ASD and SLI', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 45, 275-286.
- Yirmiya, N. & Charman, T. (2010) 'The prodrome of autism: early behavioral and biological signs, regression, peri- and post-natal development and genetics', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51, 432-458.
- Clifford, S., Hudry, K., Brown, L., Pasco, G., Charman, T. & the PACT Consortium (2010) 'The Modified - Classroom Observation Schedule to Measure Intentional Communication (M-COSMIC): evidence for reliability and validity', Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 4, 509-525.
- Full list of publications (pdf, 170KB)
