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Helen McConachie is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medicine, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Speech and Hearing, and Education.

Their work covers a range of topics, particularly in Family and Disability Support Research, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, Child Development and Digital Technology, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life.

Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, BMJ Paediatrics Open, The Lancet Psychiatry, Clinical Medicine, and PLoS ONE.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Helen McConachie include:

  • Combined social communication therapy at home and in education for young autistic children in England (PACT-G): a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial (2022) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Facilitating transition of young people with long-term health conditions from children's to adults' healthcare services - implications of a 5-year research programme (2020) published in Clinical Medicine
  • "We couldn't think in the box if we tried. We can't even find the damn box": A qualitative study of the lived experiences of autistic adults and relatives of autistic adults (2022) published in PLoS ONE
  • Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training in Public Health Services in Italy (2021) published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Parent-delivered interventions used at home to improve eating, drinking and swallowing in children with neurodisability: the FEEDS mixed-methods study (2021) published in Health Technology Assessment

Helen McConachie has collaborated extensively with a group of frequent co-authors including Jeremy Parr, Ann Le Couteur, Jonathan Green, Kathy Leadbitter, and Sophie Carruthers.

Best Publications

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • Parent-mediated communication-focused treatment in children with autism (PACT): A randomised controlled trial.

    Jonathan Green;Jonathan Green;Tony Charman;Helen McConachie;Catherine Aldred

  • A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • Parent implemented early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review.

    Helen McConachie;Tim Diggle

  • Parent-mediated social communication therapy for young children with autism (PACT): long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

    Andrew Pickles;Ann Le Couteur;Kathy Leadbitter;Erica Salomone

  • Parent‐mediated early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

    Inalegwu P Oono;Emma J Honey;Helen McConachie

  • The Interplay Between Sensory Processing Abnormalities, Intolerance of Uncertainty, Anxiety and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours in Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Sarah Wigham;Jacqui Rodgers;Mikle South;Helen McConachie

  • A genomewide screen for autism: strong evidence for linkage to chromosomes 2q, 7q and 16p

    Le, Couteur, A;TP Kelly;T Berney;HR McConachie

  • Preschoolers with autism show greater impairment in receptive compared with expressive language abilities

    Kristelle Hudry;Kathy Leadbitter;Kathryn Temple;Vicky Slonims

  • The Relationship Between Anxiety and Repetitive Behaviours in Autism Spectrum Disorder

    J. Rodgers;M. Glod;B. Connolly;H. McConachie

  • Participation of disabled children: how should it be characterised and measured?

    H. McConachie;A. F. Colver;R. J. Forsyth;S. N. Jarvis

  • Systematic review of tools to measure outcomes for young children with autism spectrum disorder

    Helen McConachie;Jeremy R Parr;Magdalena Glod;Jennifer Hanratty

  • Predictors of quality of life for autistic adults

    David Mason;Helen McConachie;Deborah Garland;Alex Petrou

  • Developmental prosopagnosia. A single case report.

    Helen R. McConachie

  • Relations among restricted and repetitive behaviors, anxiety and sensory features in children with autism spectrum disorders

    Jane Lidstone;Mirko Uljarević;Jillian Sullivan;Jacqui Rodgers

  • Development of the anxiety scale for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASC-ASD)

    Jacqui Rodgers;Sarah Wigham;Helen McConachie;Mark Freeston

  • Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2‐year‐olds

    Susan R. Leekam;Jonathan Tandos;Helen McConachie;Elizabeth Meins

  • Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Morag Maskey;Frances Warnell;Jeremy R. Parr;Ann Le Couteur

  • Interventions based on the Theory of Mind cognitive model for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

    Sue Fletcher-Watson;Fiona McConnell;Eirini Manola;Helen McConachie

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy R. Parr
Jeremy R. Parr Newcastle University
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Ann Le Couteur
Ann Le Couteur Newcastle University
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Jacqui Rodgers
Jacqui Rodgers Newcastle University
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Sue Fletcher-Watson
Sue Fletcher-Watson University of Edinburgh
Katrina Williams
Katrina Williams University of Melbourne
James Law
James Law Newcastle University
Anthony J. Bailey
Anthony J. Bailey University of British Columbia

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