Deanna Swain, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Developmental Pediatrics


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Graduate School
  • PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University (Virginia Tech) (2019)
Undergraduate School
  • BA/BS, Boston College (MA) (2011)
Internship
  • University of Colorado (Children's Hospital Colorado) Program (2018)
Department
Pediatrics-Developmental Pediatrics

Publications

  • Swain, D., Elias, R., Clark-Whitney, E., & Kim SH. "Communication Disorders." The SAGE Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology: Clinical Neuropsychological Disorders, edited by Gregory J. Boyle, Yaakov Stern, Dan J. Stein, Barbara J. Sahakian, Charles J. Golden, Tatia Mei-Chun Lee, Shen-Hsing and Annabel Chen, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023.
  • Dunsmore JC, Ashley RA, Zhou Y, Swain DM, Factor RS, Broomell AP, Waldron JC, Bell MA, Scarpa A. Marching to the beat of your own drum?: A proof-of-concept study assessing physiological linkage in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biol Psychol. 2019 May;144:37-45. PubMed PMID: 30851409
  • Factor RS, Swain DM, Antezana L, Muskett A, Gatto AJ, Radtke SR, Scarpa A. Teaching emotion regulation to children with autism spectrum disorder: Outcomes of the Stress and Anger Management Program (STAMP). Bull Menninger Clin. 2019 Summer;83(3):235-258. PubMed PMID: 31502872
  • Rea HM, Factor RS, Swain DM, Scarpa A. The Association of the Broader Autism Phenotype with Emotion-Related Behaviors in Mothers of Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Traits. J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Mar;49(3):950-959. PubMed PMID: 30406436
  • Estes A, Swain DM, MacDuffie KE. The effects of early autism intervention on parents and family adaptive functioning. Pediatr Med. 2019 Jun;2. PubMed PMID: 31583390
  • Wieckowski AT, Swain DM, Abbott AL, White SW. Task Dependency When Evaluating Association Between Facial Emotion Recognition and Facial Emotion Expression in Children with ASD. J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Feb;49(2):460-467. PubMed PMID: 30173309
  • Condy EE, Factor RS, Swain DM, Strege MV, Scarpa A. Maternal Affect During a Challenging Mother-Child Interaction: The Effects of Broad Autism Phenotype and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity in Mothers of Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 Dec;49(12):4891-4900. PubMed PMID: 31473950
  • Scarpa A, Ashley RA, Waldron JC, Zhou Y, Swain DM, Dunsmore JC, Bell MA. Side by side: Modeling dyadic physiological linkage in strangers. Emotion. 2018 Aug;18(5):615-624. PubMed PMID: 28604036
  • Factor RS, Swain DM, Scarpa A. Child Autism Spectrum Disorder Traits and Parenting Stress: The Utility of Using a Physiological Measure of Parental Stress. J Autism Dev Disord. 2018 Apr;48(4):1081-1091. PubMed PMID: 29164443
  • Corbett BA, Swain DM, Newsom C, Wang L, Song Y, Edgerton D. Biobehavioral profiles of arousal and social motivation in autism spectrum disorders. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2014 Aug;55(8):924-34. PubMed PMID: 24329926
  • Corbett BA, Swain DM, Coke C, Simon D, Newsom C, Houchins-Juarez N, Jenson A, Wang L, Song Y. Improvement in social deficits in autism spectrum disorders using a theatre-based, peer-mediated intervention. Autism Res. 2014 Feb;7(1):4-16. PubMed PMID: 24150989
  • Capriola-Hall NN, Wieckowski AT, Swain D, Tech V, Aly S, Youssef A, Abbott AL, White SW. Group Differences in Facial Emotion Expression in Autism: Evidence for the Utility of Machine Classification. Behav Ther. 2019 Jul;50(4):828-838. PubMed PMID: 31208691
  • Carl A, Good M, Haag E, Hutaff-Lee C, Swain D, Tartaglia N, Sakamoto C, Davis S, Thompson T. Anxiety in Turner syndrome: Engaging community to address barriers and facilitators to diagnosis and care. Am J Med Genet A. 2024 Mar 25;:e63564. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38528640
  • Klein CB, Swain DM, Vibert B, Clark-Whitney E, Lemelman AR, Giordano JA, Winter J, Kim SH. Implementation of Video Feedback Within a Community Based Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention Program for Toddlers With ASD: Pilot Study. Front Psychiatry. 2021;12:763367. PubMed PMID: 34925094
  • Cordeiro L, Villagomez A, Swain D, Deklotz S, Tartaglia N. Adaptive Skills in FXS: A Review of the Literature and Evaluation of the PEDI-Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT) to Measure Adaptive Skills. Brain Sci. 2020 Jun 6;10(6). PubMed PMID: 32517224
  • Smith IC, Swain D, Murphy HG, Ollendick TH, White SW. The Under- and Over-Identification of Autism: Factors Associated With Diagnostic Referral. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2019 May-Jun;48(3):393-399. PubMed PMID: 28715237
  • Swain D, Li Y, Brown HR, Petkova E, Lord C, Rogers SJ, Estes A, Kasari C, Kim SH. Implementing a Uniform Outcome Measurement Approach for Early Interventions of Autism Spectrum Disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 2. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38964630
  • Brown H, Swain D, Kim HW, Rogers S, Estes A, Kasari C, Lord C, Kim SH. Examining variability in Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention strategy use in caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorders. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2024 May 8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38719439
  • Carl A, Good M, Haag E, Hutaff-Lee C, Swain D, Tartaglia N, Sakamoto C, Davis S, Thompson T. Anxiety in Turner syndrome: Engaging community to address barriers and facilitators to diagnosis and care. Am J Med Genet A. 2024 Aug;194(8):e63564. PubMed PMID: 38528640
  • Swain D, Scarpa A, White S, Laugeson E. Emotion Dysregulation and Anxiety in Adults with ASD: Does Social Motivation Play a Role?. J Autism Dev Disord. 2015 Dec;45(12):3971-7. PubMed PMID: 26319254
  • Corbett BA, Bales KL, Swain D, Sanders K, Weinstein TA, Muglia LJ. Comparing oxytocin and cortisol regulation in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, hydrocortisone challenge pilot study in children with autism and typical development. J Neurodev Disord. 2016;8:32. PubMed PMID: 27540420

Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

Children's Hospital Colorado North Campus
469 State Highway 7
Broomfield, CO 80023
720-478-5000

Specialty Information

Conditions & Treatments
  • Child and Teen Health - Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Child and Teen Health
  • Child and Teen Health - Infant and Toddler Health
  • Child and Teen Health - Parenting