National Professional Advisory Board Members

Ami Klin

Yale University School of Medicine

Dr. Klin is the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, and Yale – New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of London, and completed post-doctoral fellowships in developmental psychopathology at the Yale Child Study Center.

He coordinates psychological evaluations at the Yale Child Study Center Developmental Disabilities Clinic, and the diagnostic, neuropsychological, a nd social cognitive assessments of three large, federally-funded program projects focused on behavioral and neurobiological aspects of autism and related conditions.

Dr. Klin is also Chief of Psychology at the Child Study Center. His research activities focus on psychological and biological mechanisms impacting on socialization, particularly as these mechanisms are expressed in individuals with autism and related severe social disabilities.

These studies include novel techniques such as the new eye-tracking laboratory that allows researchers to see the world through the eyes of individuals with autism, as well as to measure their patterns of viewing of naturalistic social situations. He is the author of over 80 publications in the field of autism and related conditions.

He is also the co-editor (with Drs. Fred Volkmar and Sara Sparrow) of a textbook on Asperger Syndrome, published by Guilford Press, and the third edition of the Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders to be published next year by Wiley.

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