Yale Autism Program

• Kathleen Koenig, MSN's book titled Practical Social Skills For Autism Spectrum Disorders: Designing Child-Specific Interventions, written for clinicians, school counselors, educators, speech pathologists, school administrators, parents, and all those who work with kids on the autism spectrum is now available for purchase. This book is a unique, multi-faceted method of designing autism intervention that emphasizes tailoring interventions to each child’s personality and strengths. She will also be speaking at the February 8th Yale @ Greenwich Lecture series. Her talk is titled Designing Child-Specific Interventions for Children on the Autism Spectrum to register for this free lecture click here!
• Yale Child Study Center director Fred Volkmar, M.D., along with CSC colleagues Brian Reichow, Ph.D. and James McPartland, Ph.D. recently conducted a study citing the potential repercussions of the DSM-5's revised definition of Autism. Read the full article Autism redefined: Yale researchers study impact of proposed diagnostic criteria
• Rhea Paul, Ph. D. Prof. and Director of the Communication Disorders section of the Yale Child Study Center's Autism Research Program will be a speaker at the Haskins Training Institute Conference "Speech-Sound Disorders in Childhood: Early Indicators and Interventions" on Friday, March 16th in the Haskins Main Auditorium Yale Medical School. Register by March 9th. More here...
• Congratulations to Martha Kaiser, Ph.D., Adam Naples, Ph.D. and Dan Campbell Ph.D. Autism Speaks awarded Dr. Kaiser with a Basic & Clinical Grant for her work examining very early development of the social brain utilizing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in a prospective, longitudinal study of infants at high risk for developing autism. Dr. Naples and Dr. Campbell received Postdoctoral Fellowships in Translational Autism Research From Autism Speaks. Naples for his work on concurrent eye movement and electrical brain activity (EEG), studying responses during simulated reciprocal social interactions, and Campbell for his work expanding the development of novel techniques for predicting diagnostic outcome. Read more...
  
• Pamela Ventola, Ph.D. and Celine Saulnier, Ph.D. recently wrote a book titled Essentials of Autism Spectrum Disorders Evaluation and Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) written for mental health practitioners and is currently available for pre-order here. This book addresses the main domains of assessment, defines the purpose of the assessment, and suggests test instruments, equipping mental health practitioners with all the information they need to utilize the varied assessments frequently employed in an autism evaluation.
  
• Adult Social Skills Group forming now! Click here to learn more and how you can join this group!
  
• Read about the research done by Roger Jou, M.D., Natasa Mateljevic, Martha Kaiser, Ph.D., Dan Sugrue, Fred Volkmar, Ph.D., and Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D. on neural endophenotypes of autism at the Yale Child Neuroscience Laboratory featured in the SFARI article, Cognition and behavior: Autism brains have abnormal links
  
• A Recent study by Dr. James McPartland shows that processing delays in autism are specific to social information. Read more on the Yale Developmental Electrophysiology Laboratory's research Here...
  
• Learn more about our Regression Study! Click Here...
  
• Learn more about our NEW Oxytocin Study! Click here...

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