2022 Institute
The 2022 institute was held as a live, hybrid event in late July that took place both in person at the YCSC Cohen Auditorium and via Zoom, with over 400 participants from around the world. Presentations covered stakeholder perspectives on autism and autism services, trauma in neurodiverse children, prenatal and neonatal brain development, and co-occurring conditions in children and adults with autism. Speakers included Yale faculty from the Child Study Center and the departments of Pediatrics, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Statistics and Data Science, as well as staff from the State of Connecticut Office of Early Childhood and a parent of a child with autism.
Schedule
Tuesday, July 26
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 27
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 28
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Presenters
Dannika Avent, MAIOP, MSID
Kasia Chawarska, PhD
Sabrina Crowe, MS, CCC/SLP
Christine Cukar-Capizzi, PsyD, BCBA
Thomas Fernandez, MD
Kathryn Giuseppone, PhD
Megan Goslin, PhD
Koleen Kerski, MS, OTR/L
Laura Ment, MD
Chelsea Morgan, PsyD
Dustin Scheinost, PhD
Denis Sukhodolsky, PhD
Mariana Torres-Viso, PsyD, BCBA
Sherab Tsheringla, MD
Angelina Vernetti, PhD
Agenda
Panel I: Welcome and Introduction - Stakeholder Perspectives on Early Autism
10:00 – 10:15
Yale Autism Center of Excellence: Welcome and Introduction
Kasia Chawarska, PhD
Emily Fraser Beede Professor in the Yale Child Study Center, Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Statistics and Data Science; Director, Yale Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic and Yale Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism Program
10:15 – 10:45
Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Toddlers and Young Children
Chelsea Morgan, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center
10:45 – 11:45
CT Birth to 3 supports in the home & community: What do they look like and why?
Koleen Kerski, MS, OTR/L
Personnel & Development
Office of Early Childhood, CT Birth to Three System
Sabrina Crowe, MS, CCC/SLP
Education & Outreach, ICC Staff Support, Child Find
Office of Early Childhood, CT Birth to Three System
11:45 – 12:15
Autism Diagnosis - A Parent’s Perspective
Dannika Kemp Avent, MAIOP, MSID
Yale University Alumni Affairs & Development, Associate Director, Learning & Development and DEI and Belonging Liaison
Panel II: Addressing Trauma in ASD
10:00 – 10:30
Trauma informed education and support
Mariana Torres-Viso, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Child Study Center
10:30 – 11:30
Trauma and neurodiversity: Considerations for acute, peritraumatic, and longer-term treatments
Kathryn Giuseppone, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Child Study Center
Megan Goslin, PhD
Associate Research Scientist at the Child Study Center
Panel III: Advances in Neuroimaging
1:00 – 1:30
Connectome-based prediction of social abilities in transdiagnostic samples
Dustin Scheinost, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, Statistics & Data Science, and at the Yale Child Study Center
1:30 – 2:00
Social attention during face-to-face interactions as a new outcome measure in autism
Angelina Vernetti, PhD
Associate Research Scientist at the Child Study Center
2:00 – 2:30
Neural Networks in the Developing Brain: Establishing Baseline Data
Laura Ment, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Associate Dean for Admissions
2:30 – 3:00
Functional brain connectivity in neonates and its links with later outcomes
Katarzyna Chawarska, PhD
Emily Fraser Beede Professor in the Yale Child Study Center, Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Statistics and Data Science; Director, Yale Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic and Yale Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism Program
Panel IV: Associated Behaviors in Autism
11:00 – 11:30
Irritability in ASD
Denis Sukhodolsky, PhD
Associate Professor in the Child Study Center
11:30 – 12:00
Modulating the brain with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Autism
Sherab Tsheringla, MD
Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Hilibrand Autism Research Fellow, Yale Child Study Center
12:00 – 12:30
Stereotypic behaviors in autism and typically developing children
Thomas Fernandez, MD
Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and in Psychiatry
12:30 – 1:00
Decreasing Challenging Behaviors in children with ASD by Using Functionally Equivalent Replacement Behaviors
Christine Cukar-Capizzi, PsyD, BCBA
Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Child Study Center
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