Tony Charman, PhD, is Readcr in Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit at the Institute of Child Health, University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He studies development in children with autism and the clinical application of this work via screening, diagnostic, outcome, early intervention, and epidemiological studies. He will be Editor-in-Chief of the " Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry " from 2007 to 2010, is currently Associate Editor of the " Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders ", and is on the editorial boards of Autism : " The International journal of Research and Practice ", the " British Journal of Developmental Psychology " and the " Journal of Intellectual Disability Research ".
Wendy Stone, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University, director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Centre. And director of the Marino Autism Research Institue-Vanderbilt. Her primary research interests are early identification and intervention in autism, and the influence of early social-communicative development on later behavioral and diagnostic outcomes.
She developed the Screening Tool for Autism in Two-Year-Olds (STAT), which is now being adapted for younger ages. She serves as chair of the Baby Siblings Research Consortium, is on the editorial boards of the " Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders " and " Infants and Yowig Children ", and bas participated in several National Institutes of Health work groups focused on be, t practices in autism research.