Stacy Shumway Manwaring

Stacy Shumway Manwaring, PhD

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Stacy.manwaring@hsc.utah.edu

Research Statement

Dr. Manwaring's research is focused on identifying young children at-risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other communication delays, leading to opportunities for early intervention. She is currently involved in research examining: 1) early communication impairments, with particular emphasis on gesture use, as predictors of ASD and later language development, and 2) how early communication impairments correlate with brain abnormalities in both structure and function. The primary aim of this longitudinal research is to characterize the communication of toddlers at-risk for ASD in order to identify early behavioral and biological predictors of ASD and/or aberrant language development.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Thurm (08/14/2018). Social-emotional and behavioral problems in toddlers with language delay. Infant Ment Health J.
  2. Henry (04/24/2018). Trajectories of cognitive development in toddlers with language delays. Res Dev Disabil.
  3. Manwaring (02/02/2018). A scoping review of deictic gesture use in toddlers with or at-risk for autism spectrum disorder. Autism Dev Lang Impair.
  4. Anderson (05/30/2017). Prefrontal hemodynamics in toddlers at rest: A pilot study of developmental variability. .
  5. Manwaring (02/01/2017). Does teaching joint attention improve language in children with autism spectrum disorder?
  6. Manwaring (01/24/2017). Modelling gesture use and early language development in autism spectrum disorder.
  7. Thurm (01/2015). Longitudinal study of symptom severity and language in minimally verbal children with autism. J Child Psychol Psychiatry.
  8. Thurm (02/26/2014). Patterns of skill attainment and loss in young children with autism. Dev Psychopathol.
  9. Thurm A (11/25/2013).
  10. Joseph L (07/18/2013).
  11. Kim S (07/2013). Multisite study of new autism diagnostic interview-revised (ADI-R) algorithms for toddlers and young preschoolers. J Autism Dev Disord.
  12. Shumway S (04/16/2012). The ADOS Calibrated Severity Score: Relationship to phenotypic variables and stability over time. Autism Res.
  13. Shumway S (12/2011). rief Report: Symptom Onset Patterns and Functional Outcomes in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. J Autism Dev Disord.
  14. Shumway (07/27/2009). Communicative acts of children with autism spectrum disorders in the second year of life. . J Speech Lang Hear Res.
  15. Wetherby (05/2007). Social communication profiles of children with autism spectrum disorders late in the second year of life. J Autism Dev Disord.
  16. Watt (12/2006). Prelinguistic predictors of language outcome at 3 years of age. J Speech Lang Hear Res.

Book Chapter

  1. Manwaring (03/01/2019). Speech-Language Pathology. In Handbook of Interdisciplinary Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Handbook of Interdisciplinary Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  2. Thurm (09/2011). Developmental Issues and Milestones. In New York: Springer. New York: Springer.