Professor Patricia Howlin
Professor Patricia Howlin is Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She is a chartered clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Her principal research interests focus on autism and other developmental disorders. She has conducted evaluations of a variety of different intervention programmes, including comparative studies of home and school based treatments; control trials of communication training programmes, and longer term studies of the impact of early interventions. She has also been involved in research on the transition to adulthood by people with autism and individuals with Williams syndrome, developmental language disorders and Fragile X.
Patricia was former Chair of the UK Association of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and of the Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes. She is a Specialist Councillor of the National Autistic Society, a member of the NAS Ethics Committee and Trustee of the affiliated Inge Wakehurst Trust. She is also joint chair of the Scientific and Advisory Committee of Research Autism and is advisor to a number of other charities including the Williams Syndrome Foundation.
