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Overview

Frank J. Symons is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and psychology, with substantial focus on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

Their main research topics cover autism spectrum disorder research, family and disability support research, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, pediatric pain management techniques, behavioral and psychological studies, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Chantel C. Burkitt, Breanne J. Byiers, Alyssa M. Merbler, Jason J. Wolff, and Caroline L. Roberts.

Regular publication venues for Frank J. Symons's research include the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, UNC Libraries, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Journal of Pain, and the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Frank J. Symons are:

  • Challenges in pain assessment and management among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, 2020, PAIN Reports
  • Delay to Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention and Educational Outcomes for a Medicaid-Enrolled Cohort of Children with Autism, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • A systematic review of risk for the development and persistence of self-injurious behavior in intellectual and developmental disabilities, 2022, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Self and caregiver report measurement of sensory features in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review of psychometric properties, 2023, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Special Education Supports and Services for Rett Syndrome: Parent Perceptions and Satisfaction, 2020, Intellectual and developmental disabilities

Best Publications

  • Varieties of repetitive behavior in autism: comparisons to mental retardation.

    James W. Bodfish;Frank J. Symons;Dawn E. Parker;Mark H. Lewis

  • Single-Subject Experimental Design for Evidence-Based Practice

    Breanne J Byiers;Joe E Reichle;Frank J Symons

  • Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds: A Methodological Primer

    Anthony D. Pellegrini;Frank James Symons;John Hoch

  • Observational measurement of behavior

    Paul Jordan Yoder;Frank Symons

  • A Descriptive Analysis of Aggressive Behavior in Classrooms for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

    Joseph H. Wehby;Frank J. Symons;Richard E. Shores

  • Teaching Practices in Classrooms for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: Discrepancies between Recommendations and Observations

    Joseph H. Wehby;Frank J. Symons;Jennifer A. Canale;Francesca J. Go

  • Self‐injurious behavior and the efficacy of naltrexone treatment: A quantitative synthesis

    Frank J. Symons;Andrea Thompson;Michael C. Rodriguez

  • Self-injurious behavior: Gene-brain-behavior relationships

    Stephen R. Schroeder;Mary Lou Oster-Granite;Gershon Berkson;James W. Bodfish

  • The early development of stereotypy and self-injury: a review of research methods.

    Frank J. Symons;L. A. Sperry;P. L. Dropik;J. W. Bodfish

  • Self-Injurious Behavior and Prader-Willi Syndrome: Behavioral Forms and Body Locations

    F. J. Symons;M. G. Butler;M. D. Sanders;I. D. Feurer

  • Self-injurious behavior in young boys with fragile X syndrome.

    Frank J. Symons;Renee D. Clark;Deborah D. Hatton;Martie Skinner

  • Early intervention as we know it

    Donald B. Bailey;Lynette S. Aytch;Samuel L. Odom;Frank Symons

  • Repetitive Behavior Scale–Revised

    James W. Bodfish;Frank J. Symons;Dawn E. Parker;Mark H. Lewis

  • Self-injurious behaviour and body site preference.

    Frank J Symons;T. Thompson

  • Coaching parents to assess and treat self-injurious behaviour via telehealth

    S. S. Benson;A. F. Dimian;M. Elmquist;J. Simacek

  • Relation between pain and self-injurious behavior in nonverbal children with severe cognitive impairments.

    Lynn M. Breau;Carol S. Camfield;Frank J. Symons;James W. Bodfish

  • Evidence of increased non-verbal behavioral signs of pain in adults with neurodevelopmental disorders and chronic self-injury

    Frank J. Symons;Vicki N. Harper;Patrick J. McGrath;Lynn M. Breau

  • Self-Injurious Behavior and Fragile X Syndrome: Findings From the National Fragile X Survey

    Frank J. Symons;Breanne J. Byiers;Melissa Raspa;Ellen Bishop

  • Challenges in pain assessment and management among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

    Chantel C. Barney;Randi D. Andersen;Ruth Defrin;Lara M. Genik

  • Behavioral observation : technology and applications in developmental disabilities

    Travis Thompson;David Felce;Frank James Symons

  • Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds: A Methodological Primer, Second Edition

    Anthony D. Pellegrini;Frank J Symons;John Hoch

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. Bodfish
James W. Bodfish Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Travis Thompson
Travis Thompson University of Minnesota
Donald B. Bailey
Donald B. Bailey Research Triangle Park Foundation
Joseph H. Wehby
Joseph H. Wehby Vanderbilt University
Anthony D. Pellegrini
Anthony D. Pellegrini University of Minnesota
Brian E. McGuire
Brian E. McGuire University of Galway
Mark H. Lewis
Mark H. Lewis University of Florida
Joe Reichle
Joe Reichle University of Minnesota
Paul J. Yoder
Paul J. Yoder Vanderbilt University
Jane E. Roberts
Jane E. Roberts University of South Carolina

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