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Deborah Fein

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut

Deborah Fein is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

January 2024
An illustration of a magnifying glass, checklists, and anonymous figures.

‘Prototypical autism’ research is likely a dead end

by , ,  /  25 January 2024

Efforts to define “frank” or “classic” forms of the condition build on several assumptions that the science has not yet borne out.

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October 2023
A group of elementary school children run toward the entrance of a school, their backs turned to the camera.

Journal club: Why do some children lose their autism diagnosis?

by  /  9 October 2023

More than one-third of a cohort of autistic toddlers no longer meet criteria for the condition at school age, according to a new study, but the findings may not generalize because the cohort is predominantly white and affluent.

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April 2014

Screening toddlers for autism is worthwhile

by ,  /  29 April 2014

A Norwegian study published in February suggested that the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers fails to detect many cases of autism at 18 months of age. The creators of the test explain why there’s more to the story.

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