Publications and conference paper presentations are listed by year of publication in descending order. All files are in .pdf format and will require Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view. Acrobat Reader is available at no charge. *Denotes author completed work as a student advisee of Dr. Neal-Beevers.
*Dowd, A., Davidson, B., Martinez, K. & Neal-Beevers, A.R., (in press). Response to Distress Varies by Social Impairment and Familiarity in Infants at Risk for Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
*Fipp-Rosenfeld, H., Dowd, A.C., Davidson, B.G., & Neal-Beevers, A.R. (2018, May). Synchrony at 15 months, children’s risk status, and the relationship to language ability at 24 months. Paper symposium at the International Society for Autism Research, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Salley, B., Sheinkopf, S. J., Neal-Beevers, A. R., Tenenbaum, E. J., Miller-Loncar, C. L., Tronick, E., . . . Lester, B. M. (2016). Infants’ early visual attention and social engagement as developmental precursors to joint attention. Dev Psychol, 52(11), 1721-1731.
Sheinkopf, S., Neal-Beevers, A.R., Levine, T.P., Miller-Loncar, C., & Lester, B.M. (2013). Parasympathetic Response Profiles are Related to Social Functioning in Young Children with Autistic Disorder. Autism Research and Treatment.
*Faso, D., Neal-Beevers, A.R. & Carlson, C. (2013). Vicarious futurity, hope, and well-being in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7, 288-297.
*Gamber, B. & Neal-Beevers, A. R. (2013, April). Mother-infant synchrony and infant joint attention development: a transactional approach. Paper presented in J. Frick (Chair) Attention and its Prediction of Important Cognitive Constructs. Paper symposium at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Neal-Beevers, A.R. (November 2012), Discussant in A. Johnson (Chair) The utility of incorporating eye-tracking methods into autism spectrum disorder research. Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapy, National Harbor, MD.
Sheinkopf, S.J., Barry, R., & Neal, A.R. (May 2010). Parasympathetic response profiles and adaptive functioning in young children with autistic disorder. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA.
Neal, A.R. (2008) Autism. In D. Blanchfield (Ed.), The encyclopedia of life course and human development. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Publications.
Nathani, S., Oller, D.K., & Neal, A.R. (2007). On the robustness of vocal development: an examination of infants with moderate hearing impairment and additional risk factors. Journal of Speach, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 1425-1444. PDF (349K)
Vaughan Van Hecke, A., Mundy, P., Acra, C.F., Block, J., Delgado, C., Venezia, M., Meyer, J., Neal, A.R., and Pomares, Y. (2007). Infant joint attention, temperament, and social competence in preschool children. Child Development, 78, 53-69. PDF (401K)
Sheinkopf, S.J., Neal, A.R., & Miller-Loncar, C. (May 2006). Cardiorespiratory reactivity in autism: preliminary evidence of response threshold differences. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
LaGasse, L.L., Neal, A.R., & Lester, B.M. (2005). Assessment of infant cry: acoustic cry analysis and parental perception. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Reseach Reviews, 11, 83-93. PDF (205K)
Morales, M., Mundy, P., Crowson, M., Neal, A.R., & Delgado, C. (2005). Individual differences in infant attention skills, joint attention and emotion regulation behavior. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29¸ 259-263. PDF (75K)
Neal, A.R. Lester, B.M., Sheinkopf, S.J., LaGasse, L.L., Bauer, C.R., Shankaran, S., Bada, H.S., Poole, K., & Smeriglio, V. (2005, April). Infant cry as a marker of physiological and behavioral regulation in the Maternal Lifestyles Study (MLS). In A.R. Neal (Chair), Infant cry as a marker of regulatory development. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Neal, A.R. (2004). Affect disorders in infancy and early childhood [Review of the book Affect Dysregulation and Disorder of the Self]. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 25, 295- 296. PDF (65K)
Vaughan, A., Mundy, P., Block, J., Burnette, C., Delgado, C., Gomez, Y., Meyer, J., Neal, A.R., & Pomares, Y. (2003). Child, caregiver, and temperament contributions to infant joint attention. Infancy, 4, 603-616. PDF (69K)
Mundy, P.M. & Neal, A.R. (2001). Neural plasticity, joint attention, and autistic developmental pathology. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 23, 139-167. PDF (1,661K)
Morales, M., Mundy, P., Delgado, C., Yale, M., Neal, A.R. & Schwartz, H.K. (2000). Gaze following, temperament, and language development in 6-month-olds: a replication and extension. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 231-236. PDF (55K)
Morales, M., Mundy, P.M., Fullmer, C., Yale, M., Messinger, D., Neal, A.R., & Schwartz, H. (2000). Responding to joint attention across the 6- to 24-month age period and early language acquisition. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 21, 283-298. PDF (104K)
Oller, D.K. Eilers, R.E., Neal, A.R., & Schwartz, H.K. (1999). Precursors to speech in infancy: the prediction of speech and language disorders. Journal of Communication Disorders, 32, 223-245.
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Neal, A.R. & Mallik, S. (1999, April). Joint attention in cocaine-exposed infants and cognitive outcome at 36 months. In P. Mundy (Chair), Joint attention in the prediction of outcome in normal and at-risk children. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.
Oller, D.K., Eilers, R.E., Neal, A.R., & Cobo-Lewis, A.B. (1998). Late onset canonical babbling: a possible early marker of abnormal development. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 103, 249-263. PDF (1048K)