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Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental PSYCHOLOGY IN INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF DIVISION 33 AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Volume 40, Number 2 Winter, 2014 From the President’s Desk Laura Lee McIntyre University of Oregon got involved in the division years ago cross-division collaborative sessions and why I continue to stay engaged. represent the future of APA program- ming. I am certain we’ll see more cross Convention Highlights -divisional collaborative efforts at next I want to thank those of you who year’s convention in Toronto. attended the annual APA convention in Washington DC this past August. We We honored Dr. Wayne Silverman with had a strong program and a range of the Edgar A. Doll Award given his life informative and stimulating sessions. achievements in the area of intellectual Dr. Geraldine Dawson, Director of the and developmental disabilities. We Duke Center for Autism Diagnosis and presented Dr. James McPartland with Treatment, gave an invited keynote the Sara S. Sparrow Early Career Re- address on early intervention and brain search Award given his contributions to Message from the President: Laura plasticity in autism spectrum disorders. translational neuroscience and autism. Lee McIntyre, PhD, BCBA-D Dr. Rebecca Landa, Director of Center Two students, Karim Ibrahim of Univer- for Autism and Related Disorders at sity of Hartford and Mt. Sinai School of It is an honor and a pleasure to serve the Kennedy Krieger Institute, gave our Medicine, and Meredith Robinson of as President of Division 33. I have keynote address on advances in social Loma Linda University, received our served on the Executive Council of Divi- and communication interventions for student research awards. We are sion 33 since 2005 and have watched toddlers with autism. NIH Program grateful to Pearson, Wiley-Blackwell, the Division grow and change over the Officials, Lisa Gillotty (NIMH) and Alice and Springer Publishers for sponsoring years. Importantly, we have a strong Kau (NICHD) gave a roundtable on the these awards. As we wind down from and active student and early career ins and outs of IDD and ASD funding the activities of the summer conven- voice in the division leadership, spear- targeting early career psychologists tion, we are gearing up for next year’s headed by our early career representa- and students. conference in Toronto. Our Program tive, Dr. Abbey Eisenhower, and stu- dent representatives, Hillary Hurst Division 33 was proud to partner with In This Issue other divisions in the development of Bush (PhD student in clinical psycholo- Message from the President four symposia. Most notably we part- gy at UMass Boston) and Geovanna Laura Lee McIntyre…………………………………………………1 Rodriguez (PhD student in school psy- nered with Division 7 (Developmental APA Division 33 Student Award Winners chology at UC Riverside). We are ex- Psychology) on a session examining Meredith Robinson & Karim Ibrahim………………………..3 panding our membership opportunities early development and predictors of ID & the Death Penalty News Greg Olley……………………………………………………………….5 by engaging in active recruitment of outcomes in infant siblings of children with autism. We partnered with Divi- Student News/Advice/Interviews…………………………….6-9 colleagues and students who work in Division 33 membership Update……………………………….10 areas related to intellectual and devel- sion 3 (Experimental Psychology) on a session on laughter and sociality, with Papers in the Student Newsletter……………………………..10 opmental disabilities (IDD) and autism APA Council Report spectrum disorder (ASD) research, Division 20 (Aging) on a session on ag- ing and intellectual disabilities, and Jim Mulick……………………………………………………………..11 practice, and policy. These things, and Pictures from APA………………………………………………..14-16 with Division 41 (Law) on a session others, make Division 33 an exciting Division 33 Award Winners……………………………………….17 focusing on autism spectrum disorder place to be, and are all reasons of why I Division 33 Executive Council…………………………………….18 and the criminal justice system. These From the President’s Desk Laura Lee McIntyre PhD Division 33—Continued Chair for the 2015 Division 33 con- Much discussion centered on vention is Dr. Anna Esbensen. We whether ASD is included within the thank Anna for her leadership and DD portion of IDD. While many in look forward to another great confer- the IDD field consider ASD to fall ence in 2015! under the developmental disability umbrella, it was suggested that What’s In a Name? many in the ASD community do not Members of Division 33 recently vot- necessarily identify with the IDD ed to amend the name of our division label. We discussed that the pro- from IDD to IDD/ASD. The name posed name change would be more change was originally brought to the inclusive and better capture how Executive Council in March 2014 by individuals identify their focus. then President Jan Blacher, President- Elect Designate Anna Esbensen, and I Full members of APA Division 33 had where it received support from the an opportunity to vote on the name Executive Council (14:4). We argued change amendment this fall via an that we may be able to expand our electronic ballot. The amendment division membership and increase the received strong support and was division’s revenue if we explicitly passed with 70 votes in favor and 20 highlight our work in ASD. We sug- opposed. The next step of the name gested that a name change would change amendment process is to help bring attention to our work in receive approval from APA. APA by- ASD and potentially attract new laws require approval from all other members who have historically affili- divisions before a change is official. I ated with autism-specific organiza- anticipate that our division name of tions and conferences. Over the IDD/ASD will be official in January years, Division 33 has received more 2015. and more convention proposals in the area of autism. For example, more I look forward to continuing the than two-thirds of Division 33 sympo- good work of our division and re- sia and half of posters at the 2014 spect and appreciate the contribu- convention focused on autism re- tions of individuals who do work in search and practice. This is important intellectual and developmental disa- to note because these posters and bilities (including ASD)! symposia were not invited sessions. This emphasis on autism is not Warmly, unique to the 2014 convention. In- deed we have similar trends over the Laura Lee McIntyre recent years. Our ASD sessions have been extremely well received and have attracted large crowds at the convention. The name change amendment was discussed with Division 33 members during the Business Meeting at the 2014 convention in Washington, DC. 2 Division 33 Student Award Winners Meredith Robinson—Loma Linda University Mindfulness and Parental Stress Among Parents of Children with Developmental Delays: The Role of the Family Environment. Karim Ibrahim—University of Hartford “Neural effects of a CBT social skills treatment on eye gaze processing in children with Autism” Please congratulate our two outstanding students who were recognized at the APA Annual Conven- tion in Washington, DC by the members of Division 33. Below are synopsis of their outstanding work! Great work, Meredith & Karim! sity of Hartford. His dissertation behavior problems. Results showed research was conducted at the Seaver Autism Center for Research that MBSR was associated with in- and Treatment at Mount Sinai un- creased family cohesion for families der the mentorship of Dr. Ting of children with DD. Additionally, Wang. His paper titled, “Neural improvements in family cohesion effects of a CBT social skills treat- were associated with reductions in ment on eye gaze processing in both parental stress and child be- children with autism,” was recently havior problems in the group that presented at the 2014 APA con- had received the treatment. These vention in Washington D.C. findings indicate that parent inter- ventions can improve the family Research has shown that the social deficits of autism spectrum disor- environment, and these improve- ders (ASDs) may be related to un- Meredith Robinson ments in family cohesiveness can deractivity in key brain regions improve treatment outcomes for involved in social cognition. How- Mindfulness and Parental Stress children and their families. ever, there is also evidence that Among Parents of Children with De- activity in normative neural net- velopmental Delays: The Role of works can be increased by provid- the Family Environment. ing children with ASD with explicit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ instructions to attend to important Our poster examined changes in fam- social cues. This study examined ily cohesion as a result of a Mindful- changes in ‘social brain’ activity ness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) following a 12-week social skills group treatment for children with intervention with parents of children autism. with DD, as well as whether changes in family cohesion are associated with As part of a larger randomized, changes in parenting stress and child comparative trial led by Dr. Latha behavior outcomes from pre to post Soorya, the Co-PI, verbally fluent treatment. The current study utilized children with an ASD, 8-11 years of data from the Mindful Awareness for age, were randomized to a 12- week CBT or facilitated play group. Parenting Stress (MAPS) project at Karim Ibrahim Behavioral assessments and fMRI Loma Linda University, which includ- “Neural effects of a CBT social skills were completed at baseline, end- ed 46 parents of children, ages 2.5 – treatment on eye gaze processing in point and at a 3-month follow-up. 5, with DD. Parents participated in a children with Autism” The CBT treatment addressed 3 randomized controlled trial examin- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ skill areas: Nonverbal communica- tion, Emotion recognition, and ing the efficacy of MBSR in reducing Karim Ibrahim is a doctoral student Theory of mind Training (Seaver- parental stress and subsequent child in clinical psychology at the Univer- 3 Student Award Winners—Continued Meredith Robinson & Karim Ibrahim NETT).
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