Registration for this training is now open! Please click here to register.
About the training
Is This Autism? Recognizing and Working with Autistic Clients
Many clinicians remain ill-equipped to recognize autism or have an outdated understanding of it, leading to missed or misdiagnoses, especially in their clients who camouflage. It is critical for professionals working with both children and adults to understand what aspects of a client’s profile are due to autism, other co-occurring conditions, or unrelated diagnoses. In this two-day training, you will learn how to recognize autism in your clients, particularly those who have a less obvious presentation of autism, and what to do next.
This training is appropriate for professionals who:
- Work with children, adolescents, or adults,
- Do assessments or therapy,
- Have any amount of training (including no training) in autism.
This training with be offered on January 9th & 10th, 8:30 – 4 pm ET, on Zoom.
Registration
Registration for this training is open. Please click here to register.
Rates:
- Registration (by December 1st): $550
Books:
Is This Autism?: A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else and Is This Autism?: A Companion Guide for Diagnosing are required to be purchased for this workshop. After registering, participants will recieve a discount code to purchase through the publisher or can order elsewhere.
CEUs
- American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) CEU certificates will be available for speech-language pathologists who have attended the entire training. Application has been made to offer this activity for 1.1 ASHA CEUs, professional area, advanced level.
- American Psychological Association (APA) CE’s will be available for psychologists who have attneded the entire trianing. The cost for CE’s will be $50. Application is being made to offer this actiivity for 11.25 APA CE’s, beginning, mediate, and advanced levels.
- All participants who attend the entire training will receive a Certificate of Completion for 11.25 hours signed by our trainers. This follow up letter has been used by attendees to petition their professional organizations to receive CEU credit.
Schedule and Details
The entire workshop will take place over Zoom. Time for breaks and Q&A are embedded throughout the day. A sample schedule is blow (subject to change).
Day 1: Recognition and Diagnosis (all times listed are Eastern Standard Time)
| 8:15 – 8:30 | Sign in and tech check |
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Introduction and Announcements |
| 8:45 – 11:00 | DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria in clients who camouflage |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Diagnostic Process and Case Example |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Break for Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:45 | Breakout Groups for a 2nd Case Example with Discussion |
| 1:45 – 4:00 | Co-occuring Features and Differential Diagnosis |
Day 2: Autistic Strengths & Working with Autistic Clients
| 8:15 – 8:30 | Sign in and tech check |
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Announcements |
| 8:45 – 10:15 | Strengths |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Intro to Working with Autistic Clients |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Working with Young Children |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Break for Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:15 | Working with Older Teens and Adults |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Break |
| 2:30 – 3:45 | Working with Support Networks (caregivers, educators, other clinicians, etc.) |
| 3:45 – 4:oo | Q & A and Wrap Up |
Our trainers
Disclosure
- The presenters co-authored the books on which the presentation is based, and as such receive royalties for purchases of those books.