AUCD Experts

Leonard Abbeduto, PhD

Center:

CA-UC Davis at the MIND Institute, UCEDD/LEND

Contact Information:

916-606-3560

[email protected]

Leadership:

Primary Activity Coordinators:

Research

Discipline Coordinators:

Genetics
Speech-Language Pathology

Specialty Resource Contacts:

UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Discipline(s):

Psychiatry
Psychology

AUCD Council Membership:

No Council Membership

Vita/Bio:

Leonard Abbeduto, PhD, is UC Davis Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the MIND Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis. His research is focused broadly on the development of language across the lifespan in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders and the family context for language development. He is also the Past-President of Division 33 (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities) of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Abbeduto has received numerous awards and honors, including the Kellett Mid-Career Research Award (2008) and Emil A. Steiger Award for Distinguished Teaching (1996) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Enid and William Rosen Research Award from the National Fragile X Foundation (2010). He earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1982.

Service:

Linked Projects

4e Research - Other

2e-3 Redwood SEED Scholars Program

Linked Products

Journal: The Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire (ASDQ): Development and psychometric evaluation of a new, open-source measure of autism symptomatology.

Journal: Family and caregiver characteristics contribute to caregiver change in use of strategies and growth in child spoken language in a parent-implemented language intervention in fragile X syndrome.

Journal: Attention/Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adolescent and Young Adult Males With Fragile X Syndrome.

Journal: Mental Health Challenges, Parenting Stress, and Features of the Couple Relationship in Parents of Children With Fragile X Syndrome.

Journal: The association between expressive language skills and adaptive behavior in individuals with Down syndrome.

Journal: Language and Literacy in Students with Intellectual Disabilities: Assessment, Intervention, and Moderators of Progress

Journal: Integrating de novo and inherited variants in 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes.