Jillian Filliter

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Jillian Filliter Dalhousie University Profile

Research Interests

Dr. Filliter's work is focused on ASD assessment in school-aged children and adolescents. She is also interested in health psychology and mental health-related interventions for youth with ASD.

Dr. Filliter is particularly interested in studying how children and adolescents with ASD access and interact with the health care system. Her primary goal is to develop system-, provider- and patient/family-level interventions that will help to ensure that the needs of youth with ASD are met within our health care system.

Selected publications

  • Filliter, J.H. & *Glover, J.M., McMullen, P.A., Salmon, J.P., & Johnson, S.A. (2015). The DalHouses: 100 new photographs of houses with ratings of typicality, familiarity, and degree of similarity to faces. Behavior Research Methods. E-pub ahead of print. Advance online publication. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25675877.

  • Filliter, J.H., Longard, J., Lawrence, M.A., Zwaigenbaum, L., Brian, J., Garon, N., Smith, I.M., Roncadin, C., Roberts, W., & Bryson, S.E. (2015). Positive affect in infant siblings of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43(3), 566-575.

  • Bandstra, N.F., Johnson, S.A., Filliter, J.H., & Chambers, C.T. (2012). Self- and parent-reported pain for common painful events in high-functioning children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 28(8), 715-721.

  • Johnson, S.A., Filliter, J.H., & Murphy, R. (2009). Discrepancies between self and parent perceptions of autistic traits and empathy in high functioning children and adolescents on the autism spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39(12), 1706-1714.

  • Filliter, J.H., McMullen, P.A., & Westwood, D. (2005). Manipulability and living/non-living category effects on object identification. Brain and Cognition, 57(1), 61-65.

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