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Overview

Pat Mirenda is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. Additional focus areas include Psychiatry and Mental Health, as well as Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Education.

The main topics addressed in Mirenda's work encompass Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Family and Disability Support Research, and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues. Further interests include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Child Development and Digital Technology, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Mirenda has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Autism
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Research in Developmental Disabilities

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Mirenda include:

  • Co-occurring trajectories of anxiety and insistence on sameness behaviour in autism spectrum disorder, 2020, The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Autism Voices: A novel method to access first-person perspective of autistic youth, 2021, Autism
  • Trajectories of Symptom Severity in Children with Autism: Variability and Turning Points through the Transition to School, 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Autism voices: Perspectives of the needs, challenges, and hopes for the future of autistic youth, 2022, Autism
  • Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism, 2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Mirenda frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, among whom are Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Mayada Elsabbagh, Connor M. Kerns, Isabel M. Smith, and Tracy Vaillancourt, reflecting a collaborative research environment consistent with their focus on neurodevelopmental disorders and psychological studies.

Best Publications

  • Augmentative & Alternative Communication: Supporting Children & Adults With Complex Communication Needs

    David R. Beukelman;Pat Mirenda

  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Management of Severe Communication Disorders in Children and Adults

    David R. Beukelman;Pat Mirenda

  • Toward Functional Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Students With Autism: Manual Signs, Graphic Symbols, and Voice Output Communication Aids.

    Pat Mirenda

  • 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

  • Analyzing the Communicative Functions of Aberrant Behavior

    Anne M. Donnellan;Patricia L. Mirenda;Richard A. Mesaros;Lynette L. Fassbender

  • 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

  • Predictors of Expressive Vocabulary Growth in Children With Autism

    Veronica Smith;Pat Mirenda;Anat Zaidman-Zait

  • INCLUDING STUDENTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES IN GENERAL EDUCATION CLASSROOMS: EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS

    Jennifer Katz;Pat Mirenda

  • 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

  • Effects of Video Modeling and Video Feedback on Peer-Directed Social Language Skills of a Child With Autism:

    Liana Maione;Pat Mirenda

  • Social Story Interventions for Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Hoa Kuoch;Pat Mirenda

  • 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

  • Autism, Augmentative Communication, and Assistive Technology What Do We Really Know?

    Pat Mirenda

  • A Comparison of Symbol Transparency in Nonspeaking Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.

    Pat Mirenda;Peggy A. Locke

  • Brief Report: An Exploratory Study of Lexical Skills in Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Jill M. Petersen;Stefka H. Marinova-Todd;Pat Mirenda

  • Gaze behavior: a new look at an old problem.

    Patricia L. Mirenda;Anne M. Donnellan;David E. Yoder

  • An item response theory analysis of the Parenting Stress Index‐Short Form with parents of children with autism spectrum disorders

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Bruno D. Zumbo;Stephen Wellington

  • Teaching in Inclusive Classrooms: Efficacy and Beliefs of Canadian Preservice Teachers.

    Jacqueline Specht;Donna McGhie-Richmond;Tim Loreman;Pat Mirenda

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders And Aac

    Pat Mirenda;Teresa Iacono

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Szatmari
Peter Szatmari University of Toronto
Isabel M. Smith
Isabel M. Smith Dalhousie University
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa
Eric Duku
Eric Duku McMaster University
Joanne Volden
Joanne Volden University of Alberta
Charlotte Waddell
Charlotte Waddell Simon Fraser University
Mayada Elsabbagh
Mayada Elsabbagh McGill University
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University
Susan E. Bryson
Susan E. Bryson Dalhousie University

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