Welcome to Dr. Jessica Brian's lab page
- Check out our newest publication: Brian et al., 2024; Transporting and implementing a caregiver-mediated intervention for toddlers with autism in Goa, India: Evidence from the social ABCs
- Latest information about the Social ABCs
- Virtual Group Social ABCs
- Social ABCs for Babies
Meet the staff and students
Scientist
Dr. Jessica Brian is a Psychologist and Senior Clinician Scientist at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the department of Paediatrics. She co-leads the Autism Research Centre at Holland Bloorview. Dr. Brian received her Ph.D. from the clinical-developmental program at York University and received intensive training in Applied Behaviour Analysis during a full-year internship at the Princeton Child Development Institute in New Jersey. Jessica has been heavily involved in a range of multi-site research programs aimed at understanding the emergence of ASD, the behavioural phenotype, and genetic markers of ASD and related disorders. For over a decade, Dr. Brian has been involved in the Canadian Infant Siblings Study, and is a member of the international Baby Siblings Research Consortium. Jessica co-developed and led the evaluation of the Social ABCs, a very early parent-mediated intervention for infants and toddlers with emerging ASD or related social-communication challenges.
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Research Staff
- Kate Bernardi, Research Coordinator
- Sara Daoud, Research Coordinator
- Erin Dowds, Research Coordinator
- Alex Hoffman, Research Assistant
- Ian Roth, Speech-Language Pathologist
- Abbie Solish, Psychologist
Current Trainees
- Erin Dowds, Doctor of Education
Below are some of our publications.
Find more of our published work with Dr. Brian on Google Scholar
Brian J. A., Dowds E. M., Bernardi K., Velho A., Kantawalla, M., & de Souza, N. - 2024 - Transporting and implementing a caregiver-mediated intervention for toddlers with autism in Goa, India: Evidence from the social ABCs. Front. Rehabil. Sci.
Brian, J., Drmic, I., Roncadin, C., Dowds, E., Shaver, C., Smith, I. M., Zwaigenbaum, L., Sacrey, L.-A. R., & Bryson, S. E. - 2022 - Effectiveness of a parent-mediated intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from a large community implementation. Autism: the international journal of research and practice
Brian, J., Solish, A., Dowds, E., Roth, I., Bernardi, K., Perry, K., Daoud, S., Jilderda, S., MacWilliam, S., Smith, I. M., Zwaigenbaum, L., & Bryson, S. - 2022) - "Going Mobile"increasing the reach of parent-mediated intervention for toddlers with ASD via groupbased and virtual delivery. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Sacrey LAR, Zwaigenbaum L, Susan E Bryson, Jessica A Brian, Isabel M Smith, Nancy Garon, Tracy Vaillancourt, Caroline Roncadin. – 2022 - Temperament in infancy predicts internalizing and externalizing problem behavior at age 5 in children with an increased likelihood of autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in Psychology
Brian JA, Smith IM, Zwaigenbaum L & Bryson SE. - 2017 - Cross-site randomized control trial of the social ABCs caregiver‐mediated intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research
Brian, J. A., Smith, I. M., Zwaigenbaum, L., Roberts, W., & Bryson, S. E. - 2016 - The Social ABCs caregiver-mediated intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder: Feasibility, acceptability, and evidence of promise from a multisite study. Autism Research: Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research
Brian, J., Bryson, SE., Zwaigenbaum, L. - 2015 - Autism Spectrum Disorder in infancy: developmental considerations in treatment targets. Current Opinion in Neurology
Brian, J., Roncadin, C., Duku, E., Bryson, S. E., Smith, I., Roberts, W., Szatmari, P., Drmic, I., & Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie. - 2014 - Emerging cognitive profiles in high-risk infants with and without autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Project: Parent-mediated Intervention for Toddlers with Autism: A multi-site Randomized Controlled Trial of a Group-based Virtual Program that Empowers Parents as Change Agents.
Researchers: J. Brian (PI), I. M. Smith; L. Zwaigenbaum; P. Andreou
Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) ($569,926, 2022-2025)
Project: Earlier Intervention and Improved Access: Extending the Reach of Social ABCs through Nimble Models of Care and Capacity Building
Researchers: J. Brian (PI)
Agency: Kids Brain Health Network Implementation Project Award (Networks of Centres of Excellence) ($597,580, 2020-2023)
Project: Infant Screening and Treatment of Autism
Researchers: L. Zwaigenbaum (PI), J. Brian and co-investigator team
Agency: Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) ($750,000, 2018-2024)
