News
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Images of Research - Picture of Health Category Winner
23/07/20 - We are thrilled to say that we have won the category 'Picture of Health' in Strathclyde's Images of Research competition. You can find our photo and vote for us in the final competition here. -
New publication - 'Making Meaning Together'
29/05/20 - A new paper from lab director Prof Jonathan Delafield-Butt published in the journal Psychopathology explains the role of movement in non-verbal communication in autism. Meaning is generated in narratives composed of body movement, and in autism practice it appears important to tune-in to the particular body rhythms and forms of expression to engage, and make meaningful social connection. The sensitive analysis describes in details this interaction, made together with co-authors Profs. Mette Vaever and Susanne Harder at the University of Copenhagen, Dr Suszanne Zeedyke at Connected Baby, and with exceptional expertise from private practitioner Phoebe Caldwell. -
SINAPSE Innovation Partnership Award
04/05/20 - We are delighted to win the SINAPSE Innovation Partnership Award with colleagues at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Pisa. The award kick-starts a pilot project titled ‘The brainstem in autism: A pilot 7T MRI neuroimaging study’. This project will employ state-of-the-art 7T MRI for high-resolution deep-brain scanning of the brainstem at the Imaging Centre of Excellence with psychometric testing to provide proof-of-principle data toward resolving the principle substructures of brainstem that make up its size and shape differences in children with autism. -
JSPS Fellowship Award
29/04/20 - Lab PI Jonathan Delafield-Butt has won a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship to the Primate Research Institute in at Kyoto University. This project will apply motion tracking technology developed at Innovation in Autism to record chimpanzees playing with tablet computers, with the aim of identifying motor signatures unique to chimps. -
New publication
12/03/20 - Lab member Szu-Ching Lu has a new paper out in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, titled 'Metacarpophalangeal joint loads during bonobo locomotion: model predictions versus proxies'. Available here. -
Guest post on the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre Blog
10/09/19 - Jonathan Delafield-Butt was invited to write a guest post on Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre's Blog. His the full text of his piece, "Can Movement Identify Neuropsychiatric Disorder?" is available here. -
Comment in Behavioural and Brain Sciences
31/07/19 - We are delighted to advance our comment on Jaswal & Akhtar’s excellent article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that has generated improved insight into the social nature of autism. Full text here. -
Publication of iPad Trial Protocol in BMJ Open
28/07/19 The protocol paper for our lab's stage 3 diagnostic evaluation of a smart tablet game to identify ASD in children age 3 to 5 has been published. The full text can be found here. -
Launch of The Child's Curriculum: Working with the Natural Values of Young Children
01/11/18 - Our director, as a member of the Child's Curriculum Group, celebrated the launch of their book The Child's Curriculum: Working with the Natural Values of Young Children at the international Child's Curriculum Conference in Edinburgh on November 3rd. The book can be found here. -
Innovation in Autism wins Strathclyde Medal Award
We are pleased to announce that the Lab for Innovation in Autism has won a Strathclyde Medal Award. These medals are awarded based on upholding the University's values of People-Oriented, Bold, Innovative, Collaborative, and Ambitious. The award will be given in a ceremony on September 28th. -
New article published by Innovation in Autism director Jonathan Delafield-Butt
Jonathan Delafield-Butt, along with his colleagues, has published a new paper, "Prospective organisation of neonatal arm movements: A motor foundation of embodied agency, disrupted in premature birth", in Developmental Science. The full text of the paper can be found here.