Publications

Publications

Omer, S., Jijon, A.M., & Leonard, H.C. (in press). Internalizing symptoms in Developmental Coordination Disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Simpson, A., Al Ruwaili, R., Jolley, R.P., Leonard, H.C., Geeraert, N., & Riggs, K.J. (in press). Does the developmental association of inhibitory control and drawing skill reflect a more fundamental relationship between inhibitory control and fine motor control? Child Development. 

Sumner, E., Leonard, H.C., & Hill, E.L. (in press). Comparing attention to socially-relevant stimuli in autism spectrum disorders and developmental coordination disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-017-0393-3.

Pile, V., Lau, J. Y., Topor, M., Hedderly, T., & Robinson, S. (2018). Interoceptive Accuracy in Youth with Tic Disorders: Exploring Links with Premonitory Urge, Anxiety and Quality of Life. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 1-9.

Pile, V., Robinson, S., Roberts, E., Topor, M., Hedderly, T., & Lau, J. Y. (2018). Reduced specificity of autobiographical memories in young people with tic disorders. Comprehensive psychiatry, 83, 31-37.

Pile, V., Robinson, S., Topor, M., Hedderly, T., & Lau, J. Y. (2018). Attention bias for social threat in youth with tic disorders: Links with tic severity and social anxiety. Child Neuropsychology, 1-16.

Bernardi, M., Leonard, H.C., Hill, E.L., Botting, N., & Henry, L.A. (2018). Executive functions in children with developmental coordination disorder: a 2‐year follow‐up study. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 60, 306-313.

Messer, D.J., Bernardi, M., Botting, N., Hill, E.L., Nash, G., Leonard, H.C., & Henry, L.A. (2018). Individual differences and their contribution to the factor structure of executive functioning in children. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01179.

Wilmut, K., Gentle, J., & Barnett, A. (2017). Gait symmetry in individuals with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder.  Research in Developmental Disabilities, 60, 107-114. 

Gentle, J., Wilmut, K., & Barnett, A. (2016) Adaptations to walking on an uneven terrain for individuals with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Human Movement Science, 49, 346-353. 

Leonard, H.C., & Hill, E.L. (2016). Brief Report:The role of older siblings in infant motor development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 152, 318-326. 

Sumner, E., Leonard, H.C., & Hill, E.L. (2016). Overlapping phenotypes in autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder: A cross-syndrome comparison of motor and social skills. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 2609-2620. 

Leonard, H.C. (2016). The impact of poor motor skills on perceptual, social and cognitive development: The case of Developmental Coordination Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:311, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00311. 

Waszczuk, M., Leonard, H.C., Hill, E.L., Rowe, R., & Gregory, A.M. (2016). Coordination difficulty and internalising symptoms in adults: A twin/sibling study. Psychiatry Research, 239, 1-8. 

Bernardi, M., Leonard, H.C., Hill, E.L., & Henry, L.A. (2016). Brief Report: Response inhibition and processing speed in children with motor difficulties and developmental coordination disorder. Child Neuropsychology, 22, 627-634. 

Leonard, H.C., Bernardi, M., Hill, E.L., & Henry, L.A. (2015). Executive functioning, motor difficulties and developmental coordination disorder. Developmental Neuropsychology, 40, 201-215. 

Leonard, H.C., & Hill, E.L. (2015). Executive difficulties in developmental coordination disorder: Methodological issues and future directions. Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 2, 141-149. 

Leonard, H.C., Bedford, R., Pickles, A., Hill, E.L., & the BASIS Team (2015). Predicting the rate of language development from early motor skills in at-risk infants who develop autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 13, 15-24. 

Leonard, H.C., & Hill, E.L. (2014). The impact of motor development on typical and atypical social cognition and language: A systematic review. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 19, 163-170. 

Pratt, M.L., Leonard, H.C., Adeyinka, H., & Hill, E.L. (2014). The effect of motor load on executive functioning in developmental coordination disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35, 1579-1587. 

Leonard, H.C., Bedford, R., Charman, T., Elsabbagh, M., Johnson, M.H., Hill, E.L., & The BASIS Team (2014). Motor development in children at-risk of autism: A follow-up study of infant siblings. Autism, 18, 281-291. 

Leonard, H.C., Elsabbagh, M., Hill, E.L., & The BASIS Team (2014). Early and persistent motor difficulties in infants at-risk of developing Autism Spectrum Disorder: A prospective study. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 11, 18-35. 

Other articles

Bedford, R., & Leonard, H.C. (2016). Walking and talking. The relationship between motor milestones and language development. Psychology Today

Leonard, H.C. (2015). Early motor skills may affect language development. The Conversation