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IDDRC Special Issue Highlights UW Research
The Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders published a 2025 special issue sponsored by the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers (IDDRCs), featuring peer reviewed research on clinical, translational, and developmental biomarkers associated with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
The special issue includes an article by Sara Jane Webb, PhD, Director of the Clinical Translational Core for the UW IDDRC at the IHDD.
Her article, Face perception, attention, and memory as predictors of social change in autistic children, draws on data from a large multisite longitudinal study to examine how early social processing markers relate to later social outcomes.
The study finds that increased attention to faces and stronger face memory in childhood are associated with improved social behaviors and reduced autistic social challenges several years later. This work contributes to broader IDDRC efforts to develop objective measures that can inform translational research and future clinical trials.
Read the article on DOI.org
IDDRC Special Issue Highlights UW Research
The Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders published a 2025 special issue sponsored by the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers (IDDRCs), featuring peer reviewed research on clinical, translational, and developmental biomarkers associated with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
The special issue includes an article by Sara Jane Webb, PhD, Director of the Clinical Translational Core for the UW IDDRC at the IHDD.
Her article, Face perception, attention, and memory as predictors of social change in autistic children, draws on data from a large multisite longitudinal study to examine how early social processing markers relate to later social outcomes.
The study finds that increased attention to faces and stronger face memory in childhood are associated with improved social behaviors and reduced autistic social challenges several years later. This work contributes to broader IDDRC efforts to develop objective measures that can inform translational research and future clinical trials.
Read the article on DOI.org
