Professor

Clinical Science

Office: 417B Kennedy Center (MRL)
Phone: 615-963-0280
Fax: 615-343-9494
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Curriculum Vitae

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Degrees

• Ph.D. (University of Miami, 1981)

Current Research

• Clinical Psychology

Current Positions

• Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Psychology, Peabody College; Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

Representative Publications

• Stone, W.L., Coonrod, E.E., Turner, L.M., & Pozdol, S.L. (2004). Psychometric properties of the STAT for early autism screening. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 691-701.
• McDuffie, A. Yoder, P.J., & Stone, W.L. (2005). Prelinguistic predictors of vocabulary in young children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 1080-1097.
• Turner, L.M., Stone, W.L., Pozdol, S.L., & Coonrod, E.E. (2006). Follow-up of children with autism spectrum disorders from age 2 to age 9. Autism, 10, 257-279.
• Yoder, P., & Stone, W.L. (in press). Randomized comparison of two communication interventions for preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology.
• Malow, B.A., Marzec, M.L., McGrew, S.G., & Stone, W.L. (in press). Sleep in children with autism: Relation of parental sleep concerns to polysomnography and behavioral measures. Sleep.
• Stone, W.L., & Digeronimo, T. (2006). Does my child have autism? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Biography

Dr. Stone is Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology and Human Development, director of the Kennedy Center Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), and Director of the Marino Autism Research Institute - Vanderbilt. Her primary research interests are in the areas of early identification and intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders. Her work on the developmental aspects of autism has included the examination of early behavioral features of autism, the stability of diagnostic characteristics in early childhood, and the contributions of early imitation, play, and prelinguistic communication to later cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Her work on early identification led to the development of the Screening Tool for Autism in Two-year-olds (STAT), which is now being adapted for use at younger ages. Current research projects include the identification of social-communicative markers in children under 24 months, the prediction of responsiveness to early intervention, and the early social development of later-born siblings of children with autism. Dr. Stone serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Infants and Young Children, as well as on several National Institutes of Health work groups, the Baby Siblings Research Consortium, and the International Society for Autism Research.