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Published Works
  1. Day, T.C.,* Malik, I.,* Boateng, S.,* Hauschild, K.M.,* & Lerner, M.D. (in press). Vocal Emotion
    Recognition in Autism: Behavioral Performance and Event-Related Potential (ERP) Response. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
  2. McKenney, E. E., Brunwasser, S., Richards, J.,* Day, T.,* Kofner, B., McDonald, R.,
    Williams, Z. J., Gillespie-Lynch, K., Kang, E., Lerner, M.D., & Gotham, K. O. (2023). Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic prospective predictor of depression and anxiety symptoms in neurodiverse first-semester college students. Autism in Adulthood.
  3. De Los Reyes, A., Epkins, C.C., Asmundson, G.J.G., Augenstein, T.M., Becker, K.D., Becker,    S.P., Bonadio, F.T., Borelli, J.L., Boyd, R.C., Bradshaw, C.P., Burns, G.L., Casale, G., Causadias, J.M., Cha, C.B., Chorpita, B.F., Cohen, J.R., Comer, J.S., Crowell, S.E., Dirks, M.A., Drabick, D.A.G., DuPaul, G.J., Ehrlich, K.B., Evans, S.C., Evans, S.W., Felton, J.W., Fite, P.J., Gadow, K.D., Galán, C.A., Garbacz, S.A., Gaylord-Harden, N., Humphreys, K.L., Gerber, A.H., Hogue, A., Ivanova, M.Y., Jarrett, M.A., Jensen-Doss, A., Kang, E., Kendall, P.C., Laird, R.D., Langberg, J.M., Langer, D.A., Lee, S.S., Lerner, M.D., Lippold, M.A., Luebbe, A.M., Makol, B.A., McLeod, B.D., McMahon, R.J.,Miller, M., Ohannessian, C.M., Ollendick, T.H., Piña, A., Prinstein, M.J., Rabinowitz, J., Reynolds, E.K., Salekin, R.T., Schleider, J.L., Scott, J.C., Talbott, E., Silverman, W.K., Spears, A.P., von der Embse, N., Wakschlag, L.S., Wang, M., Watts, A.L., Weisz, J.R., White, B.A., White, S.W., & Youngstrom, E.A. (2023). Editorial statement about JCCAP’s 2023 special issue on informant discrepancies in youth mental health assessments: Observations, guidelines, and future directions grounded in 60 years of research. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 52(1)
  4. Kang, E.,* Lerner, M. D., & Gadow, K. D. (in press). The importance of parent-teacher informant discrepancy in characterizing autistic youth: A replication latent profile analysis. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
  5. Lerner, M.D. & Day, T.C. (in press). Beyond the Landmarks: Where to next with Biomarkers of Autism? American Journal of Psychiatry.
  6. Gates, J.A.,* Gerber, A.,* Miller, C.M.,* Lerner, M.D. (in press). Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13889
  7. ​De Los Reyes, A., Wang, M., Lerner, M. D., Makol, B.A., Fitzpatrick, O., & Weisz, J.R. (2022). The Operations Triad Model and youth mental health assessments: Catalyzing a paradigm shift in measurement validation. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(5), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2022.2111684 
  8. Lerner, M. D., Brown, C. E.,* Sridhar, A.,* Tschida, J. E.,* Felsman, P. G.,* Libsack, E. J.,* Kerns, C. M., Moskowitz, L., Soorya, L., Wainer, A., Cohn, E., & Drahota, A. (2022). Usual care for youth with autism spectrum disorder: Community-based providers’ reported familiarity with treatment practices. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 923025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.923025 
  9. *McDonald, R. G., *Khawar, S., Yacoub, N., Cargill, M., Lerner, M. D., & Kang., E. (2022). Performance- and theater-based social skills interventions for supporting social cognition and social communication in autistic youth: A review and theoretical synthesis. Seminars in Speech and Language, 43(4), 255–276. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1750763
  10. Gerber, A. H.,* Kang, E.,* Nahmias, A. S., Libsack, E. J.,* Simson, C. E.* & Lerner, M. D. (2022). Predictors of treatment response to a community-delivered group social skills intervention for youth with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52(10), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05559-2
  11. Cooper, C. M.,* Rosen, T.,* Kim, H.,* Eaton, N., Cohn, E., Drahota, A., Moskowitz, L., the UCAS Consortium, Lerner, M. D., & Kerns, C. M. (2022). Predictors of expert providers’ familiarity with intervention practices for school- and transition-age youth with ASD. Autism, 00(0), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221100787 
  12. Lawlor, J., Thomas, C., Guhin, A. T., Kebyon, K. Lerner, M. D., UCAS Consortium, & Drahota, A. (2021). Suspicious and fraudulent online survey participation: A tutorial and case study utilizing the REAL framework. Methodological Innovations, 14(3), 1-10.​ https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20597991211050467
  13. Libsack, E. J.,* Keenan, E. G.,* Freden, C.  E.,* Mirmina, J.,* Iskhakov, N.,* Krishnathasan, D.,* Lerner, M. D. (2021). A systematic review of passing as non-autistic in autism spectrum disorder. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 24, 783-812. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-021-00365-1
  14. Mayor-Torres, J. M.,* Ravanelli, M., Medina DeVilliers, S. E.,* Lerner, M. D., & Riccardi, G. (2021). Interpretable sincnet-based deep learning for emotion recognition from eeg brain activity. 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 412-415. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630427
  15. McPartland, J. C., Lerner, M. D., Bhat, A., Clarkson, T.,* Jack, A., Koohsari, S., Matuskey, D., McQuaid, G. A., Su, W-C, & Trevisan, D. A. (2021). Looking back at the next 40 Years of ASD neuroscience research. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(12), 4333-4353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05095-5
  16. Libsack, E. J.,* McNair, M. L.,* Giacomantonio, J.,* Felsman, P.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2022). Low intensity interventions for autistic children and young people. In S. Bennett, P. Myles-Hooton, J. Schleider, & R. Shafran (Eds.), Oxford Guide to Low-Intensity Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Young People. (pp. 159-171). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780198867791.003.0015
  17. Libsack, E. J.,* Trimber, E.,* Hauschild, K. M.,* Hajcak, G., McPartland, J. C., & Lerner, M. D. (2021). An electrocortical measure associated with metarepresentation mediates the relationship between autism symptoms and theory of mind. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(2), 324-339. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F21677026211021975
  18. Mayor Torres, J. M. ¥*, Clarkson, T.¥*, Hauschild, K. M.*, Luhmann, C. C., Lerner, M. D., & Riccardi, G. (2022). Facial emotions are accurately encoded in the brains of those with autism: A deep learning approach. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(7), 688-695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.03.015
  19. Keifer, C. M.,* Day, T. C.,* Hauschild, K. M.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2021). Social and non-social reward anticipation in typical development and autism spectrum disorders: Current status & future directions. Current Psychiatry Reports, 23(6), 1-6.                             https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-021-01247-7
  20. Corbett, B. A., Schwartzman, J. M., Libsack, E. J.,* Muscatello, R. A., Lerner, M. D., Simmons, G. L., & White, S. W. (2020). Camouflaging in autism: Examining sex-based and compensatory models in social cognition and communication. Autism Research, 14(1), 127-142. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2440 
  21. Simmons, G. L., Ioannou, S., Smith, J. V., Corbett, B. A., Lerner, M. D., & White, S. W. (2020). Utility of an observational social skill assessment as a measure of social cognition in autism. Autism Research, 14(4), 709-719.  https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2404 
  22. Lerner, M. D., Gerber, A. H., Keluskar, J. L., & Girard, R. M. (2020). COVID-19 and autism research: Revealing gaps and convergences. Autism Research, 13(6), 858-859.https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/resource/pt/covidwho-1001232?lang=en 
  23. Hauschild, K. M.,* Felsman, P.,* Keifer, C. M.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Evidence of an own-age bias in facial emotion recognition for individuals with and without autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 00428. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00428
  24. Kang, E., Lerner, M. D., & Gadow, K. D. (2020). Atypical communication characteristics among clinic-referred youth with and without autism spectrum disorder: Stability and associations with Clinical Correlates. Development & Psychopathology, 32(4), 1240-1253. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942000070X
  25. Granieri, J. E.,* McNair, M. L.,* Gerber, A. H.,* Reifler, R.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Atypical social communication is associated with positive initial impressions among peers with autism spectrum disorder. Autism, 24(7), 1841-1848. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1362361320924906
  26. Kang, E.,* Gioia, A.,* Pugliese, C. E., Islam, N. Y.,* Martinez-Pedraza, F., Girard, R. M., McLeod, B. D., Carter, A. S., & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Alliance-outcome associations in a community-based social skills intervention for youth with autism spectrum disorder. Behavior Therapy, 52(2), 324-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2020.04.006
  27. Keifer, C. M.,* Mikami, A. Y., Morris, J. P., Libsack, E. J.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Prediction of social behavior in autism spectrum disorders: Explicit versus implicit social cognition. Autism, 24(7), 1758-1772. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320922058
  28. Kang, E.,¥* Santore, L.A.,¥* Rankin, J. A.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Self-reported social skills importance ratings, not social skills themselves, predict sociometric status in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 74(2020),101552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2020.101552
  29. Black, M., Mahdi, S., Milbourn, B., Scott, M., Gerber, A. H.,* Esposito, C. M.,* Falkmer, M., Lerner, M. D., Halladay, A., Strom, E., D’Angelo, A., Falkmer,  Bolte, S., & Girdler, S. (2020). Multi-informant international perspectives on the facilitators and barriers to employment for autistic adults. Autism Research, 13(7), 1195-1214.                                                             https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2288
  30. Santore, L. A.,* Gerber, A.,* Gioia, A.,* Bianchi, R.,* Talledo, F.,* Peris, T. S., & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Felt but not seen: Observed restricted repetitive behaviors are associated with self-report – but not parent-report – OCD symptoms in youth with ASD. Autism, 24(4), 983-994. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320909177
  31. Rodriguez-Seijas, C.,* Gadow, K. D., Rosen, T. E.,* Kim, H., Lerner, M. D., & Eaton, N. R. (2020). A transdiagnostic model of psychiatric symptom co-occurrence and autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 13(4), 579–590. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2228
  32. Clarkson, T.*, Kang, E.,* Capriola-Hall, N., Lerner, M. D., Jarcho, J., & Prinstein, M. J (2019). A meta-analysis of the RDoC social processing domain across units of analysis. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 49(3), 297-321.       https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2019.1678167
  33. Gerber, A. H.,* Girard, J. M., Scott, S. B., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Alexithymia – not autism – is associated with frequency of social interactions in adults. Behavior Research & Therapy, 123, 1 - 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.103477
  34. Keifer, C. M.,* Hauschild, K. M.,* Hajcak, G., Nelson, B. D., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Differences in the late positive potential and P300 to emotional faces in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 49(12), 5009–5022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04207-6
  35. Goldstein, T. R. Lerner, M. D., Paterson, S., Jaeggi, L.,* Toub, T. S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2019). Stakeholder perceptions of the effects of a public school-based theatre program for children with ASD. Journal of Learning Through the Arts, 15(1), n1.  https://doi.org/10.21977/D915136948
  36. Black, M., Mahdi, S., Milbourn, B., Thompson, C., D’Angelo, A., Strom, E., Falkmer, M., Falkmer, T., Lerner, M. D., Halladay, A., Gerber, A. H.,* Esposito, C. M.,* Girdler, S., & Bolte, S. (2019). Perspectives of key stakeholders on employment of autistic adults across the United States, Australia and Sweden. Autism Research, 12(11), 1648-1662. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2167
  37. Kang, E., ¥* Clarkson, T., ¥* Keifer, C. M.,* Rosen, T. E., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Discrete electrocortical predictors of anxiety and anxiety-related treatment response in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychology, 146(2019),107710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.05.010
  38. Kim, H., ¥*  Greene, A., ¥*  Eaton, N. R., Lerner, M. D., & Gadow, K. D. (2019). Is there a general factor of the autism symptom phenotype? Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(10), 1021-1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.024
  39. Russo-Ponsaran, N. M., Lerner, M. D., McKown, C., Weber, R. J.,* Karls, A., Kang, E., & * Sommer, S. L.* (2019). Web-based assessment of social cognition in school-age youth with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 12(8), 1260-1271. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2123
  40. Kerns, C. M., Berkowitz, S. J., Moskowitz, L, Drahota, A, Lerner, M. D., UCAS Consortium, & Newschaffer, C. J. (2020). Screening and treatment of trauma-related symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder amongst community providers. Autism, 24(2), 515-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361319847908
  41. De Los Reyes, A., Lerner, M. D., Keeley, L. M., Weber, R., Drabick, D. A. G., Rabinowitz, J., & Goodman, K. L. (2019). Improving interpretability of subjective assessments about psychological phenomena: A review and cross-cultural meta-analysis. Review of General Psychology, 23(3), 293-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089268019837645
  42. Marro, B. M.,¥* Kang, E.,¥* Hauschild, K. M.,* Normansell, K. M.,* Abu-Ramadan, T. M., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Social performance-based interventions promote gains in social knowledge in the absence of explicit training for youth with autism spectrum disorder. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 83(3), 301-325. https://doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2019.83.3.301
  43. Mikami, A. Y., Miller, M., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Social functioning in youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: Transdiagnostic commonalities and differences. Clinical Psychology Review, 68(2019), 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.12.005
  44. ​Kang, E,* Gadow, K. D., & Lerner, M. D. (2020). Atypical communication characteristics, differential diagnosis, and the autism spectrum disorder clinical phenotype in youth. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 49(2), 251-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2018.1539912
  45. Rosen, T. E.,* Spaulding, C. J.,* Gates, J. A.,* Gadow, K. D., & Lerner, M. D. (2019).
    Autism severity, co-occurring psychopathology, and intellectual functioning predict supportive school services for youth with ASD. Autism, 23(7), 1805-1816. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318809690
  46. Keifer, C. M.,* Dichter, G. A., McPartland, J. C., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Social motivation in autism: Gaps and directions for measurement of a putative core construct. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42(2019), e95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002418
  47. Kim, H.,* Keifer, C. M.,* Rodriguez-Seijas, C.,* Eaton, N. R., Lerner, M. D., & Gadow, K. D. (2019). Quantifying the optimal structure of the autism phenotype: A comprehensive comparison of dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(9), 876-886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2018.09.431
  48. ​Scott, M., Milbourn, B., Falkmer, M., Bӧlte, S., Halladay, A., Lerner. M. D., Lounds-Taylor, J., & Girdler, S. (2019). Factors impacting employment for people with autism spectrum disorders: A scoping review. Autism, 23(4), 869-901. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318787789
  49. De Los Reyes, A., Makol, B. A., Racz, S. J., Youngstrom, E. A., Lerner, M. D., & Keely, L. M. (2019). The work and social adjustment scale for youth: A measure for assessing youth psychosocial impairment regardless of mental health status. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1238-6
  50. Gates, J. A.,* Kang, E., & Lerner, M. D. (2017). Efficacy of group social skills interventions for youth with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 52 (2017), 164-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.01.006
  51. Mendelson, J. L.*, Gates, J. A.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2016). Friendship in school-age boys with autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analytic summary and developmental, process-based model. Psychological Bulletin, 142(6), 601-622. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000041
  52. Kang, E.,* McPartland, J. C., Keifer, C. M.,* Foss-Feig, J. H., Levy, E. J.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2019). Reply to: Can the N170 be used as an electrophysiological biomarker indexing face processing difficulties in autism spectrum disorder? Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4(3), 324-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.09.004
  53. Kang, E.,* Keifer, C. M.,* Levy, E. J.,* Foss-Feig, J. H., McPartland, J. C., & Lerner, M. D. (2018). Atypicality of the N170 event-related potential in autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analysis. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(8), 657-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.11.003
  54. Rosen, T. E.,* Mazefsky, C. A., Vasa, R. A., & Lerner, M. D. (2018). Co-occurring psychiatric conditions in autism spectrum disorder. International Review of Psychiatry, 30(1), 40-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2018.1450229
  55. Libsack, E.,* Clarkson, T.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2018). Unique perspectives: Harnessing multimodal assessment to understand how children with autism decode the social world. Behavioral Health News, 6(1), 35-36. https://www.bbrfoundation.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/bhn-summer2018_0.pdf
  56. Rosen, T. E.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2018). Error-related brain activity and anxiety symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 11(2), 342-354.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1898
  57. Black, S. R., Lerner, M. D., Shirtcliff, E. A., & Klein, D. N. (2018). Patterns of neuroendocrine coupling in 9-year-old children: effects of sex, body-mass index, and life stress. Biological Psychology, 132(2018), 252-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.11.004
  58. ​Goldstein, T. R., & Lerner, M. D. (2018). Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12603. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12603
  59. Kerns, C. M., Moskowitz, L., Rosen, T.*, Drahota, A., Wainer, A., Josephson, A.,* Soorya, L., Cohn, E., Chacko, A., & Lerner, M. D. (2019). A multi-site, multidisciplinary delphi consensus study describing "usual care" intervention practices for school- to transition-age youth with autism. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 48(sup1), S247-S268. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2017.1410826
  60. Mayor Torres, J. M., Clarkson, T., Stepanov, E. A., Luhmann, C. C., Lerner, M. D., & Riccardi, G. (2018). Enhanced error decoding from error-related potentials using convolutional neural networks. 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 360-363. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512183
  61. Lerner, M. D., ¥ Mazefsky, C. A., ¥ Weber, R. J.,* Transue, E., Siegel, M. S., Gadow, K. D., & the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Inpatient Research Collaborative (2018). Verbal ability and psychiatric symptoms in clinically-referred inpatient and outpatient youth with ASD. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 48(11), 3689-3701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3344-5
  62. Tudor, M. E.,* Rankin, J. A., & Lerner, M. D. (2018). A model of family and child functioning in siblings of youth with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders. 48(4), 1210-1227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3352-5
  63. Lerner, M. D., De Los Reyes, A., Drabick, D. A. G., Gerber, A. H.,* & Gadow, K. D. (2017). Informant discrepancy defines discrete, clinically useful autism spectrum disorder subgroups. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(7), 829–839. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12730 
  64. Fjermestad, K. W., Lerner, M. D., McLeod, B. D., Wergeland, G. J., Haugland, B. S., Havik, O. E., Öst, L.-G., & Silverman, W. K. (2017). Motivation and treatment credibility predict alliance in cognitive behavioral treatment for youth with anxiety disorders in community clinics. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(6), 793–805. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22551 
  65. Keenan, E. G.,* Gotham, K., & Lerner, M. D. (2017). Hooked on a feeling: Repetitive cognition and internalizing symptomatology in relation to autism spectrum symptomatology. Autism, 22(7), 814–824. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361317709603 
  66. Kim, H.,* Keifer, C. M.,* Rodriguez Seijas, C.,* Eaton, N. R., Lerner, M. D., & Gadow, K. D. (2017). Structural hierarchy of autism spectrum disorder symptoms: An integrative framework. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(1), 30–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12698 
  67. Wainer, A., Drahota, A., Cohn, E., Kerns, C., Lerner, M. D., Marro, B.,* Moskowitz, L., & Soorya, L. (2017). Understanding the landscape of psychosocial intervention practices for social, emotional, and behavioral challenges in youth with ASD: A study protocol. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(3), 178–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/19315864.2017.1284289 
  68. Lerner, M. D., Mazefsky, C. A., White, S. W., & McPartland, J. C. (2018). Autism spectrum disorder. American Psychological Association Handbook of Psychopathology, 447-471. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000065-000 
  69. Lerner, M. D., Rosen, T. E.,* Kang, E.,* Keifer, C. M., & Gerber, A.* (2019). Autism spectrum disorder. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 223-234. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190634841.013.15
  70. Lerner, M. D., & Girard, R. M. (2018). Appreciating and promoting social creativity in youth with Asperger’s Syndrome. In Kaufman, S.B. (Ed.), Supporting and Educating Twice-Exceptional Children (pp. 203 - 214). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645472.001.0001
  71. Goldstein, T. R., Lerner, M. D., & Winner, E. (2017). The arts as a venue for developmental science: Realizing a latent opportunity. Child Development, 88(5), 1505–1512. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12884 
  72. Wainer, A., Drahota, A., Cohn, E., Kerns, C., Lerner, M. D., Marro, B., Moskowitz, L., & Soorya, L. (2017). Understanding the landscape of psychosocial intervention practices for social, emotional, and behavioral challenges in youth with ASD: A study protocol. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(3), 178–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/19315864.2017.1284289
  73. Kang, E.,* Klein, E. F.,* Lillard, A.S. & Lerner, M.D. (2016). Predictors and moderators of spontaneous pretend play in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1577. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01577
  74. Rosen, T. E.,* & Lerner, M. D. (2016). Externalizing and internalizing symptoms moderate longitudinal patterns of facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(8), 2621–2634. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2800-y
  75. De Los Reyes, A., Aldao, A., Qasmieh, N., Dunn, E. J., Lipton, M. F., Hartman, C., Youngstrom, E. A., Dougherty, L. R., & Lerner, M. D. (2017). Graphical representations of adolescents’ psychophysiological reactivity to social stressor tasks: Reliability and validity of the Chernoff Face approach and person-centered profiles for clinical use. Psychological Assessment, 29(4), 422–434. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000354
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