RESEARCH

Our mission is to develop new knowledge about the nature, assessment, and treatment of the challenges facing the children we serve.  Our goal in conducting research is to have a broad and lasting impact on children with neurobehavioral disorders, particularly children with social emotional learning disorders (NLD, Asperger's Syndrome, HF Autism) and to contribute to the scientific literature.  Ongoing research projects include:

• The development of an integrative model of children's
    social-emotional learning.
• The development of a questionnaire measuring
   children's social interest.
• A study examining the clinical assessment of
   children's social reasoning.
• A study of the effects of social development groups.
• An evaluation of a school-based intervention to
   improve children's executive functioning.
• A study examining the diagnostic features of nonverbal
   learning disabilities.

 PUBLICATIONS:

Concurrent Validity and Clinical Usefulness of Several Individually
Administered Tests of Children’s Social–Emotional Cognition

Copyright 2007, from the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, "Concurrent Validity and Clinical Usefulness of Several Individually Administered Tests of Children's Social-Emotional Cognition" by Clark McKown, PhD.  Reproduced by permission of Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, http://www.apa.org/about/division/div53.html