RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED

'Emotion-based Social Skills Training in Autism with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability' (with Heriot, S & Dossetor, D.), Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Office of NSW Department of Health, 2007-2009, $220,000.

PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS IN PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS

Vickerstaff, S., Heriot, S., Wong M.G., Lopes A., & Dossetor, D. (2007). Intellectual ability, self-perceived social competence and depressive symptomatology in children with high-functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(9), 1647-1664.

Wong, M.G., & Heriot, S.A. (2007). Vicarious futurity in autism and childhood dementia. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(10), 1833-1841.

Wong, M.G., & Heriot, S.A. (2008). Parents of children with cystic fibrosis: How they hope, cope and despair. Child: Care, Health and Development, 34(3), 344-354.

Lopes A., Wong, M.G., Heriot, S., Vickerstaff, S., & Dossetor, D. (2006). Pilot evaluation of the emotion-based social skills training program for children with developmental disabilities. Australian Journal of Psychology: Combined Abstracts of 2006 Australian Psychology Conferences, 58(s2006), 158.

Vickerstaff, S., Heriot, S., Wong M., Lopes A., & Dossetor, D. (2006). Intellectual ability, self-perceived social competence and depressive symptomatology in children with high-functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Australian Journal of Psychology: Combined Abstracts of 2006 Australian PsychologyConferences, 58(s2006), 202.

Wong, M.G. (2006). Teaching social skills and anxiety management in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. The Clinician, 3, 127-133.

Wong, M., Heriot, S., Lopes A., Vickerstaff, S., & Dossetor, D. (2006). Development of an emotion-based social skills training program for children with developmental disabilities. Australian Journal of Psychology: Combined Abstracts of 2006 Australian Psychology Conferences, 58(s2006), 209.

Wong, M.G. (2005). The 3di - A reliable and valid tool for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders? @CAPTOS, 1, 7.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Ratcliffe, B., Grahame, V., & Wong, M. (2009). Emotion-based Social Skills Training for Children with Mild Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders: A pilot study. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Chicago.

Wong, M., & Heriot, S. (2009) A Randomised Controlled Trial of Emotion-based Social Skills Training, Paper accepted for presentation at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Chicago.

Vickerstaff, S., Heriot, S., Wong, M., Lopes A., & Dossetor, D. (2006, September). Intellectual ability, self-perceived social competence and depressive symptomatology in children with high-functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Paper presented at the 2006 Joint Conference of the Australian Psychological Society and New Zealand Psychological Society, Auckland.

Wong, M.G., & Heriot, S.A. (2006, September). Vicarious futurity in autism and childhood dementia. Paper presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professionals, Melbourne.

Wong, M., Heriot, S., Lopes A., Vickerstaff, S., & Dossetor, D. (2006, September). Development of an emotion-based social skills training program for children with developmental disabilities. Paper presented at the 2006 Joint Conference of the Australian Psychological Society and New Zealand Psychological Society, Auckland.

Wong, M., Heriot, S., Lopes A., Vickerstaff, S., & Dossetor, D. (2006, September). Pilot evaluation of the emotion-based social skills training program for children with developmental disabilities. Paper presented at the 2006 Joint Conference of the Australian Psychological Society and New Zealand Psychological Society, Auckland.

Wong, M.G., Heriot, S.A., Dossetor, D.R., & Nunn, K.P. (2005, January) Hope and vicarious futurity. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Paris.

Wong, M.G., Heriot, S.A., Dossetor, D.R., & Nunn, K.P. (2004, August) Hope and vicarious futurity. Paper presented at the International Congress of Psychology, Beijing.