Leonard Abbeduto

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
204 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

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Leonard Abbeduto is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonard Abbeduto has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 106 papers in Genetics and 101 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Leonard Abbeduto's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (125 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (106 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (87 papers). Leonard Abbeduto is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (125 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (106 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (87 papers). Leonard Abbeduto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Leonard Abbeduto's co-authors include Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Andrea McDuffie, Sara T. Kover, Paul Shattuck, Melissa M. Murphy, Angela John Thurman, Randi J. Hagerman, Jan S. Greenberg, Frances A. Conners and Marty Wyngaarden Krauss and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Child Development and Annals of Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Leonard Abbeduto

198 papers receiving 6.6k citations

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Psychological Well-Being and Coping in Mothers of Youths With Autism, Down Syndrome, orFragile X Syndrome

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonard Abbeduto United States	49	4.4k	3.0k	2.4k	2.3k	966	204	6.8k
Audrey Thurm United States	44	3.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	3.1k 1.3×	878 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	163	7.2k
Nurit Yirmiya Israel	47	6.1k 1.4×	1.4k 0.5×	4.0k 1.7×	2.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	109	8.8k
Elisabeth M. Dykens United States	54	3.2k 0.7×	4.5k 1.5×	2.3k 1.0×	625 0.3×	827 0.9×	162	8.4k
Bonnie Auyeung United Kingdom	45	6.2k 1.4×	2.2k 0.7×	3.2k 1.4×	951 0.4×	1.8k 1.8×	123	9.7k
Kim Cornish Australia	46	3.7k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	157	5.8k
Cory Shulman Israel	28	3.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	1.8k 0.8×	915 0.4×	813 0.8×	51	4.4k
Carrie Allison United Kingdom	47	7.8k 1.8×	1.8k 0.6×	4.7k 2.0×	1.1k 0.5×	2.2k 2.3×	135	9.8k
Susie Chandler United Kingdom	24	6.4k 1.5×	1.8k 0.6×	3.3k 1.4×	1.4k 0.6×	2.5k 2.6×	53	7.2k
Cheryl Dissanayake Australia	49	5.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	3.7k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.8×	171	6.8k
Isabel M. Smith Canada	47	6.3k 1.4×	1.3k 0.4×	4.3k 1.8×	2.5k 1.1×	2.9k 3.0×	194	9.3k

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Knoth, Inga Sophia, Sébastien Jacquemont, David Hessl, et al.. (2025). Neurobehavioral profile of individuals with pathogenic variants in CHD3. European Journal of Human Genetics. 33(10). 1350–1358.

Frazier, Thomas, Anastasia Dimitropoulos, Leonard Abbeduto, et al.. (2024). Psychometric evaluation of the Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 67(6). 758–769. 2 indexed citations

Abbeduto, Leonard, et al.. (2024). The impact of social-environmental factors on IQ in syndromic intellectual developmental disabilities. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 8(1). e59–e59. 4 indexed citations

Prince, Mark A., Mark Walsh, Anna J. Esbensen, et al.. (2024). Laboratory‐based measures of executive function and daily living skills in young children with Down syndrome: informing future interventions. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 68(11). 1301–1315. 1 indexed citations

Vieira, Willians Fernando, Brian G. Skotko, Leonard Abbeduto, et al.. (2024). TransPhoM-DS Study Grant Report: Rationale and Protocol for Investigating the Efficacy of Low-Power Transcranial Photobiomodulation on Language, Executive Function, Attention, and Memory in Down Syndrome. Photonics. 11(7). 670–670. 5 indexed citations

Prince, Mark A., Angela John Thurman, Anna J. Esbensen, et al.. (2023). Evaluating an adapted reverse categorisation task to assess cognitive flexibility in young children with Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 67(8). 734–745. 2 indexed citations

Bedrick, Steven, Jack Wiedrick, Lizbeth H. Finestack, et al.. (2023). Consistency and reliability of automated language measures across expressive language samples in autism. Autism Research. 16(4). 802–816. 3 indexed citations

Prince, Mark A., Anna J. Esbensen, Angela John Thurman, et al.. (2023). Preliminary psychometric properties of an inhibition task in young children with Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. 29(1). 5–23. 2 indexed citations

Thurman, Angela John, Lauren Bullard, Vivian Nguyen, et al.. (2022). Defining Expressive Language Benchmarks for Children with Down Syndrome. Brain Sciences. 12(6). 743–743. 2 indexed citations

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Fidler, Deborah J., Mark A. Prince, Anna J. Esbensen, et al.. (2022). Latent profiles of autism symptoms in children and adolescents with Down syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 66(3). 265–281. 12 indexed citations

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Klusek, Jessica, et al.. (2022). Family history of FXTAS is associated with age-related cognitive-linguistic decline among mothers with the FMR1 premutation. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 14(1). 7–7. 7 indexed citations

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Klusek, Jessica, Angela John Thurman, & Leonard Abbeduto. (2021). Maternal Pragmatic Language Difficulties in the FMR1 Premutation and the Broad Autism Phenotype: Associations with Individual and Family Outcomes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 52(2). 835–851. 11 indexed citations

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Abbeduto, Leonard, Elizabeth Berry‐Kravis, Audra Sterling, et al.. (2020). Expressive language sampling as a source of outcome measures for treatment studies in fragile X syndrome: feasibility, practice effects, test-retest reliability, and construct validity. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 12(1). 10–10. 39 indexed citations

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Walkley, Steven U., Leonard Abbeduto, Mark L. Batshaw, et al.. (2019). Intellectual and developmental disabilities research centers: Fifty years of scientific accomplishments. Annals of Neurology. 86(3). 332–343. 2 indexed citations

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Bal, Vanessa H., Robert L. Hendren, Tony Charman, et al.. (2018). Considerations from the 2017 IMFAR Preconference on Measuring Meaningful Outcomes from School‐Age to Adulthood. Autism Research. 11(11). 1446–1454. 15 indexed citations

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Klusek, Jessica, et al.. (2017). Cortisol profiles differentiated in adolescents and young adult males with fragile X syndrome versus autism spectrum disorder. Developmental Psychobiology. 60(1). 78–89. 15 indexed citations

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Kover, Sara T., et al.. (2013). A Neurodevelopmental Perspective on the Acquisition of Nonverbal Cognitive Skills in Adolescents With Fragile X Syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology. 38(7). 445–460. 30 indexed citations

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Abbeduto, Leonard, Nancy C. Brady, & Sara T. Kover. (2007). Language development and fragile X syndrome: Profiles, syndrome‐specificity, and within‐syndrome differences. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews. 13(1). 36–46. 145 indexed citations

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Abbeduto, Leonard, et al.. (1991). Relation between receptive language and cognitive maturity in persons with mental retardation.. PubMed. 96(2). 143–9. 8 indexed citations

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Abbeduto, Leonard, et al.. (1988). The Development of Speech Act Comprehension in Mentally Retarded Individuals and Nonretarded Children. Child Development. 59(6). 1460–1460. 10 indexed citations

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