Kathleen A.nbsp; Hinchman, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Reading and Language Arts Center at Syracuse University. A former middle school teacher, she has published a number of journal articles, chapters, and books. Her current work is concerned with literacy-related middle school reform. nbsp; Heather K. Sheridan-Thomas, PhD, is Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction for the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Ithaca, New York. Formerly a teacher educator, public school administrator, and secondary teacher, she has conducted research in the areas of adolescents' multiple literacies and addressing achievement gaps for… underserved students.Tony Charman, PhD, is Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. He studies early social-cognitive development in children with autism and the clinical application of this work via screening, diagnostic, outcome, early intervention, and epidemiological studies. Dr. Charman is Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Associate Editor of theJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders,and is on the editorial/advisory boards ofAutism,Autism Research, British Journal of Developmental Psychology,Journal of Intellectual Disability Research,andResearch into Autism Spectrum Disorders. He has served on a number of expert panels for the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom and the National Institutes of Health in the United States, and is a scientific member of the Advisory Group to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism. Wendy Stone, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University, director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, and director of the Marino Autism Research Institute-Vanderbilt. Her primary research interests are early identification and intervention in autism, and the influence of early social-communicative development on later behavioral and diagnostic outcomes. She developed the Screening Tool for Autism in Two-Year-Olds (STAT), which is now being adapted for younger ages. Dr. Stone serves on the editorial boards of theJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Infants and Young Children, andAutism Research,as well as on several National Institutes of Health work groups and the Baby Siblings Research Consortium.
Tony Charman, PhD, is Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. He studies early social-cognitive development in children with autism and the clinical application of this work via screening, diagnostic, outcome, early intervention, and epidemiological studies. Dr. Charman is Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Associate Editor of theJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders,and is on the editorial/advisory boards ofAutism,Autism Research, British Journal of Developmental Psychology,Journal of Intellectual Disability Research,andResearch into Autism… Spectrum Disorders. He has served on a number of expert panels for the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom and the National Institutes of Health in the United States, and is a scientific member of the Advisory Group to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism. Wendy Stone, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University, director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, and director of the Marino Autism Research Institute-Vanderbilt. Her primary research interests are early identification and intervention in autism, and the influence of early social-communicative development on later behavioral and diagnostic outcomes. She developed the Screening Tool for Autism in Two-Year-Olds (STAT), which is now being adapted for younger ages. Dr. Stone serves on the editorial boards of theJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Infants and Young Children, andAutism Research,as well as on several National Institutes of Health work groups and the Baby Siblings Research Consortium.