[4] The SRS is a widely used tool to help clinicians identify social impairments in individuals both with and without a diagnosis of ASD.
[7] Constantino was appointed the Liz and Frank Blake Chair of Behavioral and Mental Health at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta in 2024, following his move to Atlanta in 2022 to lead a large-scale effort to model system transformation and parity in child mental health there and at Emory University.
[8] Constantino's research program focuses on developmental disabilities and social development from infancy through early adulthood.
[13] His laboratory linked familial risk for autism to early variations in visual social engagement,[14] motor coordination[15] and activity level.
[16] Other research has examined patterns of familial aggregation in multiplex autism, defined as instances where two or more individuals in the same family are affected; knowledge gained from these studies helped specify the impact of combined influences of independently-inherited traits on early childhood social development[17][18] His work has also elucidated opportunities to resolve enduring disparities in developmental outcomes of minority children affected by autism.