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The development of change blindness: Children's attentional priorities whilst viewing naturalistic scenes (2009)
Journal Article
Fletcher-Watson, S., Colli, J., Findlay, J., & Leekam, S. (2009). The development of change blindness: Children's attentional priorities whilst viewing naturalistic scenes. Developmental Science, 12(3), 438-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00784.x

Change blindness describes the surprising difficulty of detecting large changes in visual scenes when changes occur during a visual disruption. In order to study the developmental course of this phenomenon, a modified version of the flicker paradigm,... Read More about The development of change blindness: Children's attentional priorities whilst viewing naturalistic scenes.

Brief Report: Young adults with autism spectrum disorder show normal attention to eye-gaze information—evidence from a new change blindness paradigm (2008)
Journal Article
Fletcher-Watson, S., Leekam, S., Findlay, J., & Stanton, E. (2008). Brief Report: Young adults with autism spectrum disorder show normal attention to eye-gaze information—evidence from a new change blindness paradigm. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38(9), 1785 -1790. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-008-0548-8

Other people’s eye-gaze is a powerful social stimulus that captures and directs visual attention. There is evidence that this is not the case for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), although less is known about attention to eye-gaze in adul... Read More about Brief Report: Young adults with autism spectrum disorder show normal attention to eye-gaze information—evidence from a new change blindness paradigm.

Rapid detection of person information in a naturalistic scene (2008)
Journal Article
Fletcher-Watson, S., Findlay, J., Leekam, S., & Benson, V. (2008). Rapid detection of person information in a naturalistic scene. Perception, 37(4), 571-583. https://doi.org/10.1068/p5705

A preferential-looking paradigm was used to investigate how gaze is distributed in naturalistic scenes. Two scenes were presented side by side: one contained a single person (person-present) and one did not (person-absent). Eye movements were recorde... Read More about Rapid detection of person information in a naturalistic scene.

The curious incident of the photo that was accused of being false: Issues of domain specificity in development, autism, and brain imaging (2008)
Journal Article
Perner, J., & Leekam, S. (2008). The curious incident of the photo that was accused of being false: Issues of domain specificity in development, autism, and brain imaging. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 76-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210701508756

We resume an exchange of ideas with Uta Frith that started before the turn of the century. The curious incident responsible for this exchange was the finding that children with autism fail tests of false belief, while they pass Zaitchik's (1990) phot... Read More about The curious incident of the photo that was accused of being false: Issues of domain specificity in development, autism, and brain imaging.

Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds (2007)
Journal Article
Leekam, S., Tandos, J., McConachie, H., Meins, E., Parkinson, K., Wright, C., …Le Couteur, A. (2007). Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(11), 1131-1138. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01778.x

Background: Repetitive behaviours are an essential part of the diagnosis of autism but are also commonly seen in typically developing children. The current study investigated the frequency and factor structure of repetitive behaviours in a large comm... Read More about Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2-year-olds.

Dyadic orienting and joint attention in preschool children with autism (2006)
Journal Article
Leekam, S., & Ramsden, C. (2006). Dyadic orienting and joint attention in preschool children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(2), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-005-0054-1

Acts of dyadic orienting (responses to attention bids by a researcher) and acts of joint attention (e.g. pointing and showing behaviors) were observed in preschool children with autism and children with developmental delay. Children with autism respo... Read More about Dyadic orienting and joint attention in preschool children with autism.

Do children with autism fail to process information in context? (2003)
Journal Article
Lopez, B., & Leekam, S. (2003). Do children with autism fail to process information in context?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44(2), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00121

Background: This research investigated the proposal that children with autism are impaired in processing information in its context. To date, this proposal rests almost exclusively on evidence from verbal tasks. Given evidence of visuo-spatial profic... Read More about Do children with autism fail to process information in context?.

The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use (2002)
Journal Article
Wing, L., Leekam, S., Libby, S., Gould, J., & Larcombe, M. (2002). The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(3), 307-325. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00023

Background: The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO) is a schedule for the diagnosis of autistic spectrum and related disorders and assessment of individual needs. It enables information to be recorded systematically fo... Read More about The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use.

The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Algorithms for ICD-10 Childhood Autism and Wing & Gould Autistic Spectrum Disorder (2002)
Journal Article
Leekam, S., Libby, S., Wing, L., Gould, J., & Taylor, C. (2002). The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Algorithms for ICD-10 Childhood Autism and Wing & Gould Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(3), 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00024

Background: The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO) is an interviewer-based schedule for use with parents and carers. In addition to its primary clinical purpose of helping the clinician to obtain a developmental histo... Read More about The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Algorithms for ICD-10 Childhood Autism and Wing & Gould Autistic Spectrum Disorder.