A cross-syndrome approach to atypical development: modelling developmental trajectories in children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder and callous-unemotional traits

Rachael is a developmental psychologist with a strong interest in quantitative methodology. She will be based with Professor Andrew Pickles in the Biostatistics department at King's College London, with two additional eight-month collaborative visits to the University of Liverpool and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rachael's Fellowship project involves a cross-trait comparison of developmental trajectories, using advanced statistical methods to test the hypothesis that overlap in symptomatology between autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and callous-unemotional traits can arise from both common and distinct infant trajectories.