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Ellis, K., Lewington, P., Powis, L., Oliver, C., Waite, J., Heald, M., Apperly, I., Sandhu, P., & Crawford, H. (2020). Scaling of early social cognitive skills in typically developing infants and children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, doi: 10.1007/s10803-020-04449-9

Ellis, K., Oliver, C., Stefanidou, C., Apperly, I., & Moss, J. (2020). An observational study of social interaction skills and behaviors in Cornelia de Lange, fragile X and Rubinstein-Taybi syndromes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, doi: 10.1007/s10803-020-04440-4

Oliver, C., Royston, R., Crawford, H., Moss, J., Waite, J., Arron, K., Burbidge, C., Ellis, K., Nelson, L., Ross, E., Russell, H., & Welham, A. (2019). Informant assessments of behaviour and affect for people with intellectual disability. University of Birmingham

King, D., Ellis, K. R., Seri, S., Wood, A. G. (2019). A systematic review of cross-sectional differences and longitudinal changes to the morphometry of the brain following paediatric traumatic brain injury. Neuroimage clinical, 23, doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101844

Victoria Perry, Katherine Ellis, Jo Moss, Sarah R. Beck, Gursharan Singla, Hayley Crawford, Jane Waite, Caroline Richards, Chris Oliver (2022)Executive function, repetitive behaviour and restricted interests in neurodevelopmental disorders, In: Research in Developmental Disabilities122104166 Elsevier

Background Individuals with genetic syndromes show unique profiles of repetitive behaviours and restricted interests (RRBs). The executive dysfunction account of RRBs suggests that in autistic (AUT) individuals executive function impairments underpin RRBs, but not communication and social interaction autistic characteristics. Aims To 1) describe profiles of behavioural manifestations of executive function (EF behaviours) and 2) explore the relationship between EF behaviours and autistic traits across individuals with Cornelia de Lange (CdLS), fragile X (FXS) and Rubinstein-Taybi syndromes (RTS), and AUT individuals. Method Carers completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function – Preschool Version and the Social Communication Questionnaire. Data reporting on 25 individuals with CdLS (Mage = 18.60, SD = 8.94), 25 with FXS (Mage = 18.48, SD = 8.80), 25 with RTS (Mage = 18.60, SD = 8.65) and 25 AUT individuals (Mage = 18.52, SD = 8.65) matched on chronological age and adaptive ability were included in analyses. Results All groups showed impairments across EF behaviours compared to two-to-three-year-old typically developing normative samples with no differences between groups. Different EF behaviours predicted RRBs in the syndrome groups with no associations found in the AUT group. Conclusions Syndrome related differences should be considered when developing targeted interventions that focus on EF behaviours and/or RRBs in these groups.