Does your child with autism easily become upset, experience behavioural problems or anxiety?

Help us with our research in understanding the impact of co-occurring disorders for families with children with autism! 

We are looking for you, if your child has a diagnosis of autism and is between age 3-18 years. You can take part in this study if your child has any co-occurring challenges as well as if she/he doesn’t have.

If you wish to participate, please fill out our survey on the link below.

http://bit.ly/2GCs2No

Your participation would be extremely appreciated.

Do you have any questions? Write to us!

Julia Lanyi (MSc in ABA student in NUI Galway)

Email: l.julia1@nuigalway.ie

This research is supervised by Dr. Arlene Mannion and Dr. Geraldine Leader

Autism Research – Get informed about the latest Autism Research from ICAN – Part 1


Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research

Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research

As many of you will know we have been working with the Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research (ICAN) is helping the locate people prepared to participate in their survey research.

As a way of thanking you for your help they would like to share with you some of the results of their research work.  Topics include autism and anxiety, autism and epilepsy, autism and gastrointestinal problems, sleeps disorders and autism

  1. Mannion, Leader, & Healy (2013). An investigation of comorbid psychological disorders, sleep problems, gastrointestinal symptoms and epilepsy in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946712000487


  1. Mannion & Leader (2013a). An analysis of the predictors of comorbid psychopathology, gastrointestinal symptoms and epilepsy in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946713001980

  1. Mannion & Leader (2013b). Comorbidity in autism spectrum disorder: A literature review.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946713001773

Williams, Leader, Mannion, & Chen (2015). An investigation of anxiety in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175094671400258X

  1. Mannion & Leader (2014a). Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946713002699

We would like to that Arlene Mannion of ICAN for collating this research.  If you have any questions for Ms Mannion please use the comments box below and we will ask her to respond.

The second part of this research will be published next week.

Looking for parents of children with autism! Please help a student at The Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research with a survey.


Over the last

Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research

Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research

year we have help promote a number of research projects run by the Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research (ICAN) . Which is part of National University of Ireland.

A few days ago one of their PhD students, Arlene Mannion, contacted us to ask for some assistance from our readers with a survey she is running on sleep problems or gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD).

It would be great if you could help her with the research as we think it may prove very useful to all the ASD community going forward.

Mannion writes “Does your child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience sleep problems or gastrointestinal symptoms?

Some children with autism have both sleep problems and gastrointestinal symptoms, while other children have one of these issues or none at all. The Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research (ICAN) in National University of Ireland, Galway is interested in hearing about your experiences with your child or adolescent aged 3 to 17 years with autism. We are interested in understanding how sleep problems and gastrointestinal symptoms affect both child and parent. Even if your child doesn’t have sleep or gastrointestinal problems, we can still learn a lot from your information on why some children have these issues and others do not. If you wish to participate, please use the link below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rdm3IrSWzZcrG14jezW1FjrjoF5T62zUH4cX26ecs2k/viewform?c=0&w=1

If you need any more information on the survey you can contact Ms Mannion at a.mannion3@nuigalway.ie.

Thanks very much in advance!