Dr Calum Hartley

Lecturer

Research Overview

I am interested in symbolic and social-communicative development in autism. Presently, I am researching (a) how minimally-verbal children with autism map relations between words, pictures and objects, and (b) the relationship between language and social-communication in verbal children with autism.

Is children’s naming and drawing of pictures mediated by representational status?: evidence from typical development and autism.
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 10/2015 In: Cognitive Development. 36, p. 52-67. 16 p.
Journal article

Iconicity influences how effectively minimally verbal children with autism and ability-matched typically developing children use pictures as symbols in a search task
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 07/2015 In: Autism. 19, 5, p. 570-579. 10 p.
Journal article

Do iPads promote symbolic understanding and word learning in children with autism?
Allen, M., Hartley, C., Cain, K. 12/02/2015 In: Frontiers in Educational Psychology. 6, 9 p.
Journal article

Symbolic understanding of pictures in low-functioning children with autism: the effects of iconicity and naming
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 01/2015 In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 45, p. 15-30. 16 p.
Journal article

Generalisation of word-picture relations in children with autism and typically developing children
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 08/2014 In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 44, 8, p. 2064-2071. 8 p.
Journal article

Intentions vs. resemblance: understanding pictures in typical development and autism
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 04/2014 In: Cognition. 131, 1, p. 44-59. 16 p.
Journal article

Decoding abstract picture-referent relations: Are low-functioning children with autism naive realists?
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 18/05/2012
Poster

The relationship between iconicity and referential understanding of pictures in low-functioning children with autism.
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 18/05/2012
Poster

Do low-functioning children with autism rely on perceptual resemblance when decoding abstract pictures?
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 13/01/2012
Poster

Does iconicity influence referential understanding of pictures in low-functioning children with autism?
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 13/01/2012
Poster

Can low-functioning children with autism utilize intentional information when naming ambiguous pictorial representations?
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 8/09/2011
Speech

Does iconicity influence whether children with autism perceive the referential properties of pictures?
Hartley, C., Allen, M. 7/09/2011
Poster