Clare Harrop

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Clare Harrop is assistant professor of allied health sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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How to safeguard online data collection against fraud

By Grace Huckins
30 March 2021 | 7 min read
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Learning when to treat repetitive behaviors in autism

By Clare Harrop, Connie Kasari
10 November 2015 | 8 min read

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