Psychology Research Group staff
Dr Lisa Reidy
PhD
Phone 0114 225 5813
E-mail l.reidy@shu.ac.uk
Lisa is a member of the Brain, Behaviour and Cognition Groupand the Lifespan, Language and Learning Group.
Research interests
- social processing and cognition in individuals with autism spectrum conditions
- emotional processing in older age
- social cognition in adolescence/early adulthood
- perceptions of crime and safety in primary school children
Publications 2004 - present
Checkley, R., Reidy, L., Chantler, S., Hodge, N. & Holmes, K. (in press).'Black white zebra orange orange'. How children with autism make use of computer based voice output communication aids in their language and communication at school. Journal of Assistive Technologies.
Moore, D., Heavey, L. & Reidy, J. (2012). Attentional Processing of Faces in ASD: A Dot-Probe Study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, DOI 10.1007/s10803-012-1449-4
Heavey, L., Crane, L., Hermelin, B. & Pring, L. (2012). The structure of savant calendrical knowledge. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2012.04250
Checkley, R., Hodge, N., Chantler, S., Reidy, L. & Holmes, K. (2010). What children on the autism spectrum have to ‘say’ about using high-tech voice output communication aids (VOCAs) in an educational setting. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(1), 25-37. DOI 10.5042/jat.2010.0042
Smeeth, L., Cook, C., Fombonne, E., Heavey, L., Rodrigues, L., Smith, P. and Hall, A. (2004). MMR vaccination and pervasive developmental disorders: a case control study and updated systematic review. The Lancet, 364, 9438, 963-9.
Smeeth, L., Cook, C., Fombonne, E., Heavey, L., Rodrigues, L., Smith, P. and Hall, A. (2004). Rate of recorded diagnosis of autism and other pervasive developmental disorders in United Kingdom general practice, 1988-2001. BMC Medicine, 2, 1, 39-51.
Fombonne, E., Heavey, L., Smeeth, L., Rodrigues, L., Cook, C., Smith, P., and Hall, A. (2004). Validation of the diagnosis of autism in general practitioner records. BMC Public Health, 4:5.
Heavey, L. (2004). Arithmetical savants. In A. Baroody and A. Dowker (Eds.), The development of arithmetic concepts and skills: Recent research and theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
