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Overview

Joanne Volden is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research. Their work spans various intersecting disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

Their research primarily addresses Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Family and Disability Support Research, and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues. Other recurring themes include behavioral and psychological studies, child development and digital technology, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Joanne Volden has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Isabel M. Smith, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Teresa Bennett, Eric Duku, and Mayada Elsabbagh, each serving as a significant coauthor in multiple publications.

Their published work appears in a range of academic journals, with a notable presence in Research in Developmental Disabilities, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Recent published papers by or associated with Joanne Volden include:

  • "Co-occurring trajectories of anxiety and insistence on sameness behaviour in autism spectrum disorder," 2020, The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Trajectories of Symptom Severity in Children with Autism: Variability and Turning Points through the Transition to School," 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • "Factor analysis of the children's sleep habits questionnaire among preschool children with autism spectrum disorder," 2020, Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • "Profiles and Predictors of Academic and Social School Functioning among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder," 2020, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • "Middle-childhood executive functioning mediates associations between early-childhood autism symptoms and adolescent mental health, academic and functional outcomes in autistic children," 2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology

    Dorothy V.M. Bishop;Margaret J. Snowling;Paul A. Thompson;Trisha Greenhalgh

  • Developmental Trajectories of Symptom Severity and Adaptive Functioning in an Inception Cohort of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Peter Szatmari;Stelios Georgiades;Eric Duku;Teresa A. Bennett

  • Investigating Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Factor Mixture Modeling Approach.

    Stelios Georgiades;Peter Szatmari;Michael Boyle;Steven Hanna

  • Examination of bidirectional relationships between parent stress and two types of problem behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Eric Duku;Peter Szatmari;Peter Szatmari

  • Impact of personal and social resources on parenting stress in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Comparing early language development in monolingual- and bilingual- exposed young children with autism spectrum disorders

    J. Kaori Ohashi;Pat Mirenda;Stefka Marinova-Todd;Catherine Hambly

  • Validating the Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revised in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Pat Mirenda;Isabel M. Smith;Tracy Vaillancourt;Stelios Georgiades

  • Neologisms and idiosyncratic language in autistic speakers

    Joanne Volden;Catherine Lord

  • Differentiating autism and Asperger syndrome on the basis of language delay or impairment.

    Terry Bennett;Peter Szatmari;Susan Bryson;Joanne Volden

  • Brief Report: Pragmatic Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relationships to Measures of Ability and Disability

    Joanne Volden;Jamesie Coolican;Nancy Garon;Nancy Garon;Julie White

  • Measuring pragmatic language in speakers with autism spectrum disorders: Comparing the children's communication checklist--2 and the test of pragmatic language.

    Joanne Volden;Linda Phillips

  • Conversational repair in speakers with autism spectrum disorder

    Joanne Volden

  • Using the preschool language scale, fourth edition to characterize language in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders.

    Joanne Volden;Isabel M. Smith;Peter Szatmari;Susan Bryson

  • Repetitive Behavior Severity as an Early Indicator of Risk for Elevated Anxiety Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Danielle A. Baribeau;Simone Vigod;Eleanor Pullenayegum;Connor M. Kerns

  • Using Lego robots to estimate cognitive ability in children who have severe physical disabilities

    Albert M Cook;Kim Adams;Joanne Volden;Norma Harbottle

  • Behavioral Pediatrics Feeding Assessment Scale in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Psychometrics and Associations With Child and Parent Variables

    Stephanie L. Allen;Isabel M. Smith;Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Factor analysis of the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form with parents of young children with autism spectrum disorders.

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Bruno D. Zumbo;Stelios Georgiades

  • Phenotypic Overlap Between Core Diagnostic Features and Emotional/Behavioral Problems in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Stelios Georgiades;Peter Szatmari;Eric Duku;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

  • Efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy-based social skills intervention for school-aged boys with autism spectrum disorders

    Cyndie Koning;Joyce Magill-Evans;Joanne Volden;Bruce Dick

  • Joint trajectories of internalizing and externalizing problems in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Tracy Vaillancourt;John D. Haltigan;Isabel Smith;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Szatmari
Peter Szatmari University of Toronto
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa
Eric Duku
Eric Duku McMaster University
Pat Mirenda
Pat Mirenda University of British Columbia
Isabel M. Smith
Isabel M. Smith Dalhousie University
Charlotte Waddell
Charlotte Waddell Simon Fraser University
Susan E. Bryson
Susan E. Bryson Dalhousie University
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University
Wendy Roberts
Wendy Roberts University of Toronto

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