Dr. Kim Cornish – Cornish Research Team, McGill University

Danielle Ostfield, BAH, M.A.

Danielle Ostfield (BAH, MA) is pursuing her doctoral degree in School and Applied Child Psychology at McGill University, co-supervised by Dr. Kim Cornish and Dr. Lee Tidmarsh. I am currently researching the effectiveness of a social communication parent-training program for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). While completing my degree, I am also working in the ASD Clinic at the Montreal Children's Hospital and participating in the CIHR funded Autism Research Training program, under the direction of Dr. Eric Fombonne. For information about or opportunities related to my research project, please contact me at danielleostfield@sympatico.ca.

Cornish, K., Wilding, J., Burack, J., Ostfield, D., Rahman, A., Waxman, N., & Daniel, K. (April, 2006). Learning to count and the role of sequential learning in typically developing children and children with Fragile X syndrome or Down syndrome: a neuroconstructivist perspective. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

Ostfield, D., Maragos, I., Hillgrove, J., Waxman, N., & Cornish, K. (November, 2005). The typical developmental trajectory of early numerical concepts: The relationship between approximate arithmetic and nonverbal intelligence across childhood. Annual national symposium of the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program, St. Johns, NFLD, Canada.

Ostfield, D., Roy, S., Rahman, A. Archambault, K., Levey, S., Turk, J., & Cornish, K. (July, 2004). Attentional difficulties in male permutation carriers of fragile X syndrome: A behavioral neuropsychological perspective. Oral presentation at the National Fragile X Conference, Washington, DC.

Rahman, A., Levey, S., Archambault, K., Maragos, I., Roy, S., Ostfield, D., Cornish, K. (June, 2004). Numerical processing in children with typical and atypical developmental pathways: A cross-syndrome perspective. Poster presented at the annual Tennet Conference: Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Roy, S., Rahman, A., Ostfield, D., Levey, S., Archambault, K., & Cornish, K. (July, 2004). Fragile X premutation phenotypic effects and social cognition: a molecular-neuropsychological perspective? Oral presentation at the National Fragile X Conference, Washington, DC.

Passey, J., Laforce, J., Ostfield, D., and Feldman, M. A. (May, 2003). Longitudinal Study of Early Parent-Child Interactions in Young Children With/At Risk for Developmental Delay. Poster submitted for presentation at the Association on Behaviour Analysis Convention, San Fransico, CA.

Passey, J., Laforce, J., Ostfield, D., Rajska, D., and Feldman, M. A. (2002, April). Contingency Analysis I: Antecedents, Consequences, and Functions of Adaptive and Problem Behavior in Young Children With or At Risk for Developmental Delay. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Research Special Interest Group of the Ontario Association of Developmental Disabilities, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada.

Rahman, A., Ostfield, D., Roy, S., Levey, S., Archambault, K., & Cornish, K. (July, 2004). Deconstructing the social cognitive deficit in children with fragile X syndrome: A cross- syndrome perspective. Oral presentation at the National Fragile X Conference, Washington, DC. Roy, S., Rahman, A., Ostfield, D., Levey, S., Archambault, K., & Cornish, K. (July, 2004). Fragile X premutation phenotypic effects and social cognition: a molecular-neuropsychological perspective? Oral presentation at the National Fragile X Conference, Washington, DC.

Published Abstracts

Cornish, K., Wilding, J., Burack, J., Ostfield, D., Rahman, A., Waxman, N., & Daniel, K. (in press). Learning to count and the role of sequential learning in typically developing children and children with Fragile X syndrome or Down syndrome: a neuroconstructivist perspective. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Rahman, A., Levey, S., Archambault, K., Maragos, I., Roy, S., Ostfield, D., & Cornish, K. M. (2005). Numerical processing in children with typical and atypical developmental pathways: A cross-syndrome perspective. Brain and Cognition, 57, 285.