Catherine Lord

1950 -

Catherine Lord (born 1950) is an American psychologist and researcher. She is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts in autism. She currently serves as a member of the International Advisory Board for The Lancet Psychiatry, as co-chair of the Scientific Research Council of the Child Mind Institute, and as the George Tarjan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Education at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.Dr. Lord is credited for co-developing the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R), which are together considered the "gold standard" tools for diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Dr. Lord is also known for leading one of the largest and longest-running longitudinal studies of autism and related developmental conditions in modern research. Started in 1990, her longitudinal study of autism has followed a community sample of over 200 individuals, initially referred to community clinics for early autism evaluations as young children, and their families, for nearly 30 years. She has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 10 books about autism through this study and others. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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