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Professor Deborah Riby's Outputs (3)

Friendships in children with Williams syndrome: Parent and child perspectives (2022)
Journal Article
Gillooly, A., Riby, D., Durkin, K., & Rhodes, S. (2024). Friendships in children with Williams syndrome: Parent and child perspectives. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 54, 509–517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05807-5

Although children with Williams syndrome (WS) are strongly socially motivated, many have friendship difficulties. The parents of 21 children with WS and 20 of the children themselves participated in a semi-structured interview about the children’s fr... Read More about Friendships in children with Williams syndrome: Parent and child perspectives.

The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons (2022)
Journal Article
Ridley, E., Arnott, B., Riby, D., Burt, M., Hanley, M., & Leekam, S. (2022). The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 127(4), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-127.4.293

Past research shows that individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have heightened and prolonged eye contact. Using parent report measures, we examined not only the presence of eye contact but also its qualitative features. Study 1 included individuals... Read More about The Quality of Everyday Eye Contact in Williams Syndrome: Insights from Cross-syndrome Comparisons.

Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other’s eyes in a hypersocial phenotype (2022)
Journal Article
Kleberg, J. L., Riby, D., Fawcett, C., Bjorlin Avdic, H., Frick, M. A., Brocki, K. C., Hogstrom, J., Serlachius, E., Nordgren, A., & Willfors, C. (2023). Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other’s eyes in a hypersocial phenotype. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 2786–2797. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05563-6

Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare genetic condition associated with high sociability, intellectual disability, and social cognitive challenges. Attention to others’ eyes is crucial for social understanding. Orienting to, and from other’s eyes was stud... Read More about Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other’s eyes in a hypersocial phenotype.