Elise Robinson

Institute member
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Elise Robinson is an institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Spectrum

By Sarah DeWeerdt

10 August 2022

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What developmental milestones say about autism research: A conversation with Susan Kuo and Elise Robinson

Shifts in diagnostic criteria have only added to the condition’s bedeviling heterogeneity, an analysis of smiling, sitting, walking and other early milestones in more than 17,000 autistic children reveals.

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