Location: In Your Own Home

Verbal ability is purported to be an important variable in successful outcomes for children with autism. Early engagement skills such as joint attention and imitation have been linked to verbal skill. Parent storybook reading with young children has been shown to positively impact children’s development Thus, parent storybook reading may be an ecologically convenient venue through which mothers can support the development of their autistic children’s early engagement skills and dyadic communication. Thus, this study investigates two overarching goals—differences in quality of storybook reading between mothers of typically developing children and mothers of children with autism and whether or not an intervention video will improve mothers’ encouragement of interaction skills during picture book reading together.

Location: Online Survey

The purpose of the proposed study is to investigate the effectiveness of sensory integration, applied behavior analysis, and cognitive behavioral therapy treatments performed by occupational therapists, as perceived by parents of children on the autistic spectrum. Specifically, parents will be asked to report the effectiveness of their chosen treatment at improving their child(ren)’s participation at school, in the community, and at home.

The survey questions will relate to the parents’ experience with any of the previously mentioned treatments, carried out by an occupational therapist, and their perceptions of their child(ren)’s participation. The data will be analyzed to gain an understanding of parental perceptions of the most effective intervention in helping their child with autism.

Location: Nashville, TN

The study objective is to explore the safety and tolerability of STX209 in subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorders and to obtain preliminary data on several measures of efficacy in treating irritability.

Location: Phoenix, AZ

The study objective is to explore the safety and tolerability of STX209 in subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorders and to obtain preliminary data on several measures of efficacy in treating irritability.

Location: 15 Locations Throughout Country

Mememantine has been shown to significantly improve communication in Alzheimer’s patients. The study’s purpose is to evaluate the effect of memantine in children with autism

The study is conducted in multiple sites accross the country.This is double-blind pharmaceutical study in which the patient has equal chance of recieving the medication or a placebo. No one at the doctor’s office including the doctor and the saff knows if your child recieves mediacation or placebo. This is done so that patients who were treated by the medication can be compared to patients who were on placebo and did not recieve any medication.

Location: New York, NY

This study looks at autistic traits and their associations to the biochemical substances oxytocin and cholesterol. Recent findings suggest that low levels of oxytocin are related to social and behavioral problems in autistic children. In addition, deficienciesin cholesterol synthesis might be associated with social, communication, and behavioral deficits in autistic children.

Location: Surveys

In this study, we want to understand: What contributes to better adjustment in high functioning adolescents with ASD, specifically whether social impairment, friendship quality, and higher order mental planning and organizing (i.e., executive functions)impact levels of depressive symptoms and loneliness. By being in this study, you and your child will answer questions about your child’s adjustment, social abilities, friendship quality, and executive function abilities. You and your child will be given the option of filling out paper measures or completing the measures online.

Location: Manhasset, NY

Researchers at the Fay J. Lindner Center for Autism, which is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, are looking for children and adolescents to participate in a new drug study for patients with ASD. The results of this study may help provide people with ASD with new or additional treatment options.

Location: Online Survey 

The purpose of this study is to better understand the experience that adolescent girls with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their parents/caregivers have with menstruation by investigating menstrual hygiene concerns, dysmenorrhea (the symptoms that occur during a period such as cramps), premenstrual syndrome, and attempts at treatment.

Location:  New York, NY

The goal of this study is to find out which genes (material inherited from ones parents) play a role in developmental delay or autism spectrum disorders and how these disorders run in families.

Location: Seattle, WA

The study's objective is to explore the safety and tolerability of STX209 in subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorders and to obtain preliminary data on several measures of efficacy in treating irritability.

Location: Columbus, OH

Purpose of study is to test the effect of melatonin supplementation in children with autism and sleep-onset insomnia.

Location: Boston, MA

The aim of this study is to explore how adolescents with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) spend their time watching television, using a computer and being with friends, as well as the associations between adolescents’ time use and their psychological well-being and relationships with parents and friends. 

Location: Los Angeles, CA

This study is designed to examine the efficacy of a modified cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program designed to remedy anxiety and social problems experienced by children with autism spectrum disorders.

Location: New Haven, CT

This study will examine the early development of basic social skills in young children. We will observe how children with various developmental delays and typical development look at people and perceive speech. This research will lead to the development of new methods to diagnose developmental delays in toddlers, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD).  

Location:  Davis, CA

The MARBLES study is enrolling pregnant women at high risk of having an autistic child. Because of the high recurrence rates in siblings of autistic children (7-15%), we want to study mothers who have given birth to a child with autism and who are either in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy or are likely to become pregnant.