Our research  is part of STAARS / BASIS -a longitudinal study of infants at increased likelihood for ASD or ADHD because of having a sibling or parent with these disorders. We pursue the hypotheses that many of the later symptoms of ASD and ADHD are an adaptive response to early sensory processing atypicalities; we inquire the mechanisms underlying sensory and perceptual differences (Piccardi et al., 2021) and we want to understand how they lead to later social interactions difficulties (Vernetti et al., 2018).

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This work has been funded by the Medical Research Council (PI Mark Johnson & Tony Charman).

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As part of START project (PI Bhisma Chakrabarti, Reading University), we develop screening tools for ASD, using tablet-based measures, that can be used in low resource settings, currently in India.