Publications
Cano, J., Kirkland, J., Huth-Bocks, A., Ohanian, D. M., Warschausky, S., Raghunathan, T., Berglund, P., Staples, A., Taylor H. G., Lukomski, A., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. on behalf of PediaTrac Consortium. (under review). Maternal education and neighborhood deprivation as predictors of infant motor and social, communicative, and cognitive development: A PediaTracTM study. Public Health.
Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Lobermeier, M., Richard, A., Staples, A. D., Huth-Bocks, A., Warschausky, S., Taylor, H. G., Lang, N., Lukomski, A., & Erdodi, L., on behalf of PediaTrac Consortium. (under review). Caregiver response styles and validity scales for PediaTrac™ – a web-based measure of infant and toddler development. JAMA Pediatrics.
Warschausky, S., Raghunathan, T., Berglund, P., Gidley Larson, J. C., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., Staples, A. D., Lukomski, A., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. on behalf of PediaTrac Consortium. (under review). Growth trajectories of term and preterm infant latent motor ability reveal gestational and biological sex effects. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.
Lasutschinkow, P. C., Bo, J., Warschausky, S., Raghunathan, T., Berglund, P., Cano, J., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., Le Doux, G. N., Lukomski, A., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (in press). Convergent validity between the motor domain of PediaTracTM and Ages & Stages in term and preterm infants at 2, 4, 6, and 9 months of age. Assessment.
Levick, S., Staples, A. D., Warschausky, S., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., Gidley Larson, J. C., Lukomski, A., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. on behalf of PediaTrac Consortium. (in press). Caregiver-Reported Infant Motor and Imitation Skills Predict M-CHAT-R/F. Child Neuropsychology.
Huth-Bocks, A., Franz, S., Berglund, P., Schroeder, H., Staples, A. D., Raghunathan, T., Warschausky, S., Taylor, H. G., Le Doux, G., Dieter, L., Rosenblum, K., & Lajiness-O'Neill, R. on behalf of The PediaTrac Consortium. (in press). Measuring Early Relational Health using PediaTrac in a Diverse Sample of Infant-Caregiver Dyads. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
Warschausky S, Gidley Larson JC, Raghunathan T, Berglund P, Huth-Bocks A, Taylor HG, Staples AD, Lukomski A, Barks J, & Lajiness-O'Neill R; PediaTrac Project Consortium. (2023). Longitudinal caregiver-reported motor development in infants born at term and preterm. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 66(6), 725–732. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.15816
Mattes, A. M., Trzeciak, K., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Lukomski, A., Dixon, N., Franz, S., Huth-Bocks, A., and Taylor, H. G., Barks, J., & Warschausky, S. (under review). Agreement between Caregiver Report and Medical Record of Preterm Perinatal Characteristics and Complications. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4366261 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4366261
Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Berglund, P., Warschausky, S., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., Staples, A., Lukomski, A., Brooks, J., Cano, J., & Raghunathan, T., & PediaTrac Project Consortium. (2023) Caregiver-reported development in term and preterm infants from birth to nine months of age: Psychometrics of the PediaTrac Social/Communication/Cognition domain. Psychological Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001235
Lobermeier, M., Hicks, A., Staples, A. D., Huth-Bocks, A., Warschausky, W., Taylor, H. G., Lukomski, L., Brooks, J., & †Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2022). Longitudinal Changes in Term and Preterm Infant Night Wakings: The Role of Caregiver Anxious-Depression, Infant Mental Health Journal.
Connery, A. K., Raghunathan, R. S., Colbert, A., Erdodi, L., Warschausky, S., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., Kirkland, J., Cano, J., Lukomski, A., Staples, A., Raghunathan, T., Berglund, P., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., & PediaTrac Project Consortium. (2022). The influence of sociodemographic factors and response style on caregiver report of infant developmental status. Frontiers in Pediatrics.
Oral Presentations
Hicks, A., Staples, A., Brooks, J., & Lajiness-O'Neill, R. (2022, November 4-6). The impact of sociodemographic factors on infant sleep [Conference oral presentation]. Society for Behavioral Sleep Medicine, Washington, DC, United States.
Cano, J., Kirkland, J., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Raghunathan, T., Staples, A. D., & Huth-Bocks, A. (2022, February 2-5). Longitudinal sociodemographic predictors of infant development: A PediaTrac study. In R. Lajiness-O’Neill (Chair), PediaTrac: A longitudinal tool to measure and track infant and toddler development [Symposium]. International Neuropsychological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
Hicks, A., Lang, N., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Huth-Bocks, A., & Staples, A. D. (2022, February 2-5). Preliminary psychometrics of a novel measure of early relational health: Relationships with sociodemographic characteristics. In R. Lajiness-O’Neill (Chair), PediaTrac: A longitudinal tool to measure and track infant and toddler development [Symposium]. International Neuropsychological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., & Warschausky, S. (2022, February 2-5). PediaTrac: A longitudinal tool to measure and track infant and toddler development. In R. Lajiness-O’Neill (Chair), PediaTrac: A longitudinal tool to measure and track infant and toddler development [Symposium]. International Neuropsychological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
Warschausky, S., Raghunathan, R., Berglund, P., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2022, February 2-5). Development and validation of the newborn sensorimotor domain of PediaTrac v3.0, a web-based tool to measure and track infant and toddler development using item response theory. In R. Lajiness-O’Neill (Chair), PediaTrac: A longitudinal tool to measure and track infant and toddler development [Symposium]. International Neuropsychological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA.
Goldstein, S., & Staples, A. D. (2018, December 7). Sleep: Implications for infants and mothers. [Oral presentation]. First Friday Brown Bag Event, Eastern Michigan University Psychology Department, Ypsilanti, MI.
Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2018, May 4). Development and validation of PediaTrac™: A web-based tool to track developing infants. [Paper presentation]. Midwest Neuropsychology Group Meeting, hosted by Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
Flores, A., Swick, C., Reed, R., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R., (2017, March). Validation of PediaTrac™: A tool for early identification of atypical development. [Oral presentation]. Graduate Research Conference, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. https://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=grf_prog
Posters
Lobermeier, M., Staples, A. D., Warschausky, S., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2024, June 5-8). Caregiver-reported joint attention at 12-months predicts Bayley Scales of Infant & Toddler Development at 24-months. [Poster presentation]. American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Scottsdale, AZ, United States.
Krebs, R., Lasutschinkow, P., Staples, A. D., Warschausky, S., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2024, June 5-8). Convergent validity between individual PediaTracTM Motor Domain (MOT) Factors and the Ages and Stages Questionnaire - 3rd Edition (ASQ-3) at 2-, 4-, 6-, and 9- months [Poster presentation]. American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Scottsdale, AZ, United States.
Lasutschinkow, P. C., Lobermeier, M., Bo, J., Warschausky, D., Huth-Bocks, A., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2024, February 14-17). The mediating role of parental support in the association between infant motor skills and socio-emotional development [Poster presentation]. 52nd Annual North American Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, New York City, NY, United States.
Krebs, R., Jain, M., Staples, A. D., Warschausky, S., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2024, February 14-17). Convergent validity between PediaTrac and Ages and Stages Questionnaire at 9- and 12- months. [Poster presentation]. 52nd Annual North American Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, New York, NY, United States.
Krebs, R., Lobermeier, M., Staples, A. D., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2023, June 7-10). Term status and infant development: Moderating roles of sleep and temperament. [Poster presentation]. 21st Annual Conference of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), Washington, D. C., United States.
Lobermeier, M., Krebs, R., Staples, A. D., Warschausky, S., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2023, June 7-10). PediaTrac motor and social/communication/cognition factors at 9 months predict autism spectrum disorder risk at 18 months. [Poster presentation]. American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Washington D. C., United States.
Lasutschinkow, P. C., Bo, J., Le Doux, G., Warschausky, S., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2023, June 7 – 10). A Comparison of risk classification between the motor domain of PediaTracTM and Ages & Stages (ASQ-3) in term and preterm infants at 2, 4, 6, and 9 months of age [Poster presentation]. 21st Annual Conference of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), Washington, DC, United States.
Dillahunt, A. K., Lasutschinkow, P. C., Bo, J., Warschausky, S., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2023, June 7 – 10). Item-level motor domain differences in risk categorization identified by the motor domain of PediaTracTM v3.0 vs. the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 [Poster presentation]. 21st Annual Conference of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), Washington, DC, United States.
Lasutschinkow, P. C., Dillahunt, A. K., Bo, J., Warschausky, S., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2023, April 27 – 30). Relationship between caregiver-reported alcohol/nicotine use and motor development in infancy [Poster presentation]. American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology (AAPdN) 9th Annual Conference, Virtual.
Lobermeier, M., Levick, S., Raghunathan, T., Berglund, P., Warschausky, S., Huth-Bocks, A., Taylor, H. G., Staples, A. D., Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2023). Psychometric properties of the PediaTrac social/communication/cognition domain. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 29(s1), 744–745. doi:10.1017/S135561772300927X
Levick, S., Lobermeier, M., Staples, A. D., Larson, J. C. G., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2023). Infant Imitation: Detecting Risk in the First Year with PediaTracTM. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 29(s1), 510–511. doi:10.1017/S1355617723006604.
Samantha Levick, M.S., Angela Lukomski, DNP, RN CPNP-PC., Angela D. Staples, Ph.D., Judith Brooks, Ph.D., Alissa Huth-Bocks, Ph.D., and Renée Lajiness-O’Neill, Ph.D. October13-14, 2022, “Maternal Anxiety Predicts Greater Concern About Infant Sleep at Newborn and Two Months”[Poster]. Michigan NAPNAP, Novi, MI, USA.
Lang, N., Lobermeier, M., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2022, February 2-5). The impact of temperament on communication development in term and preterm infants [Conference workshop]. International Neuropsychological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA. https://www.the-ins.org/meetings/nola2022/
Lobermeier, M., Staples, A., Peterson, C., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2022, February 2-5). The role of infant sleep in the relationship between cumulative risk and infant social-emotional development [Conference workshop]. International Neuropsychological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA. https://www.the-ins.org/meetings/nola2022/
Swick, C., Staples, A., Warschausky, S., Lawler, J., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2022, February 2-5). Relationship between caregiver-reported emerging social attention, social communication, and attentional orienting/regulation at 6 months of age [Conference workshop]. International Neuropsychological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA. https://www.the-ins.org/meetings/nola2022/
Bolden, N., Warschausky, S., Huth-Bocks, A., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2021, April 7-9). Maternal depressive symptoms and parenting self-efficacy as predictors of temperament at 6 months postpartum [Conference workshop]. Society for Research in Child Development, virtual. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2021-biennial-meeting
Franz, S., Oard, K., Dieter, L., Rosenblum, K., Huth-Bocks, A.C. (2021, April). Maternal Efficacy about Pregnancy and Birth Mediates the Relationship between Perinatal Complications and Maternal Depression. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research in Child Development. Virtual
Hicks, A., Bisignano, N., Swick, C., Staples, A. D., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2021, April 7-9). Caregiver psychopathology, term status, and socio-environmental risk factors on infant duration of orienting [Conference workshop]. Society for Research in Child Development, virtual. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2021-biennial-meeting
Lobermeier, M., Hicks, A., Staples, A. D., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2021, April 7-9). Concurrent and longitudinal relations between maternal depression and infant sleep [Conference workshop]. Society for Research in Child Development, virtual. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2021-biennial-meeting
Maas, R., Lobermeier, M., Whitfield, C., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2021, April 7-9). Demographic moderation effects on the relationship between gestational age and infant social-communication and cognitive development [Conference workshop]. Society for Research in Child Development, virtual. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2021-biennial-meeting
Oard, K., Warschausky, S., Lukomski, A., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2021, April 7-9). Effects of metabolic conditions on infant neurodevelopment from birth to 6 months of age [Conference workshop]. Society for Research in Child Development, virtual. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2021-biennial-meeting
Swick, C., Flores, A., Reed, R., Andersen, T., McFarlane, K., Brooks, J., Lukomski, A., Huth-Bocks, A., Schilling, S., Warschausky, S. & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2018, February 14-17). Criterion validation of the social-emotional/communication domain of Pediatrac™, an infant screening tool. [Poster presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. https://www.the-ins.org/meetings/dc2018/
Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Brooks, J., Lukomski, A., Huth-Bocks, A. (2017, October 13-16). Development and preliminary validation of PediaTrac™: A web-based tool to screen and track developing infants. [Poster presentation]. Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. https://www.sdbp.org/secure/mtg/FinalProgramSDBP_2017.pdf
Reed, R., Flores, A., Derksen, T., Swick, C., McFarlane, K., & Lajiness-O’Neill, R. (2017, October 13-16). Maternal interpersonal distress is more highly related to infant social communication at 9 months than maternal depression. [Poster presentation]. Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH. https://www.sdbp.org/secure/mtg/FinalProgramSDBP_2017.pdf
Kleppa A., DeMent, J., Flynn, J., Braun, A., Flores, A., Nyman, T., Swick, C., Lajiness-O’Neill, R., Lukomski, A., & Brooks, J. (2015, March 27). PediaTrac there’s an app for that! [Poster presentation]. Undergraduate Symposium, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. https://commons.emich.edu/ugsymprg/27/
Grants
Acquisition of EEG for Examination of Brain-Behavior Relationships Across the Lifespan
National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Grant (2021-2023)
PediaTrac™: Web-based Measure to Screen and Track Early Developmental Trajectories
National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
$4.5 million
R01 8/10/2018 – 6/30/2023
Role: Lajiness-O’Neill, Project Director/Principal Investigator; Co-PIs – Huth-Bocks, Warschausky, Taylor; Co-Is – Brooks, Lukomski, Raghunathan, Schilling, Barks, Rosenblum, Wilson-Costello, Payne, JohnsonIncentives (Birth to 6-months) for Pilot Study to Evaluate PediaTrac™
EMU Provost’s Research Support Award, Fall 2015
$2100
Role: Lajiness-O’Neill, Co-Principal Investigator; Brooks, Lukomski, Co-Principal InvestigatorsPediaTrac™: There’s An App for That
Eastern Michigan University, Faculty Research Fellowship, 2014
$3000
Role: Lajiness-O’Neill, Co-Principal Investigator; Brooks, Lukomski, Co-Principal Investigators