Rebecca Landa, Ph.D., M.S.

  • Director, Center for Autism and Related Disorders
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Research Interests

Autism; Early detection of developmental delay; Early intervention of autism and language impairments; Pragmatic language disorders ...read more

Background

Titles

  • Director, Center for Autism and Related Disorders
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Departments / Divisions

Centers & Institutes

Education

Degrees

  • M.S.; Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania) (1978)
  • B.S.; Towson University (Maryland) (1977)
  • Ph.D.; University of Washington (Washington) (1985)

Research & Publications

Selected Publications

Landa, R., Folstein, S., & Isaacs, C.  (1991).  Spontaneous narrative discourse performance of parents of autistic individuals.  Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 34, 1339-1345.

Landa, R., Piven, J., Wzorek, M., Gayle, J., Chase,G., & Folstein, S. (1992). Social language use in parents of autistic individuals. Psychological Medicine, 22, 245-254.

Landa, R., Swartz, K., & Folstein, M. (1994).  A brief method of assessing communication in psychiatric patients.  Journal of Psychiatric Research, 27, 395-408.

Goldberg, M.C., Zee, D.S., Lasker, A.G., Garth, E., Tien, A., & Landa, R.  (2002). Deficits in the initiation of eye movements in the absence of visual targets in adolescents with high functioning autism.  Neuropsychologia, 1426, 1 - 11.

Mostofsky, S., Denckla, M., Goldberg, M., & Landa, R.. (in press). Cognitive aspects of cerebellar function in individuals with autism. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Contact for Research Inquiries

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Phone: 443-923-7551
Fax: 443-923-7560

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