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Digital Seminar

A Practitioner's Guide to Autism Assessment

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Have you ever worked with a child or adolescent and noticed that treatment wasn’t progressing as expected? Or perhaps you noticed a developmental concern, and you suspected Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but didn’t know what to do next?

Join Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP, and Tamara Rosen, PhD, and learn how to skillfully use specific screening and assessment-based tools and strategies for: 

  • When ASD is suspected and you feel stuck 
  • Understanding and treating challenging behaviors that may be impacting treatment  
  • Confidently communicating ASD concerns to other professionals and parents 
  • Making effective and appropriate referral 
  • Incorporating screening and assessment results into tailored interventions 

By incorporating this knowledge and using skills that you already have, you will be able to support your client’s underdeveloped areas while also harnessing their strengths! 

Here's What You'll Learn

  • Assessment and Screening Through a Neurodiversity Lens 
    • Profile and how brain works differently 
    • Identifying strengths 
    • Needed supports to promote independence & valued living 
    • Collaborative assessment driven approach 
    • Screenings that all providers can use 
  • Functional Behavioral Assessment 
    • Diagnosis isn’t the main issue  
    • Current behavior is important to address 
    • Once function of behavior is identified, what next? 
    • How to encourage more helpful behaviors, regardless of diagnoses and environment 
    • Cases examples using Motivational Assessment Scale 
  • When Screening Shows ASD... Now What? 
    • Types of referrals to make and why they are so important 
    • Psychoeducation resources  
    • Therapy 
    • Understanding elements of a good provider with ASD expertise 
  • How to Broach the Topic of ASD to Families: Role-Play 
    • Earlier diagnosis -> earlier intervention -> better trajectory 
    • Educational identification vs medical diagnoses 
    • System challenges: Time to get to a proper evaluation 
    • Age of receiving diagnosis and acceptance 
    • Racial and economic disparities: Social justice and equity lens 
    • Gender differences 
    • How long it takes to get ASD diagnosis 
    • Help parents process acceptance and address ambivalence 
    • Discomfort/ambivalence in relaying diagnosis 
  • Integrating strategies for: 
    • Social Communication 
    • Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRB) 
    • When attention is the function 
    • When escape is the function 
    • Role-plays incorporating a combination of the above 

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP

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Rebecca Sachs, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of individuals on the Autism spectrum who also experience difficult co-occurring disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and severe anxiety. She works with individuals across the life span and believes in empowering individuals and their families with knowledge and skills. Board certified in behavioral and cognitive psychology, Dr. Sachs was recently awarded a federally funded grant through the New York State Office of Mental Health, aimed at helping train community-based service providers better serve children and youth who are dually diagnosed with mental illness, like OCD, and a developmental disability. She has a private practice in New York and is co-director of Successful School Transitions, a comprehensive program for school refusal. Dr. Sachs received her bachelor’s degree, and PhD from New York University and Hofstra University, respectively, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Miami. In addition to these roles, Dr. Sachs is mom to an energetic and determined 6-year-old and stepmom to the coolest 15-year-old around.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Rebecca Sachs is the co-founder of Successful School Transitions and maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with the International OCD Foundation and the LIU Post. Dr. Sachs receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Rebecca Sachs is a member of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, the Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Associations, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the New York State Psychological Association.

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Tamara Rosen, PhD

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Tamara Rosen, PhD, is trained in both assessment and therapeutic interventions. Dr. Rosen has worked with youth and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in a variety of settings for over a decade. She is currently completing her Postdoctoral Fellowship with an emphasis on the intersection of mental health and developmental differences at JFK Partners, University of Colorado School of Medicine. In her fellowship, Dr. Rosen provides consultation and supervision to developmental pediatricians, social workers, psychology trainees, Speech and Language pathologists and Occupational Therapists. She received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from SUNY, Stony Brook University. Under the mentorship of ASD researcher Dr. Matthew Lerner, she completed her dissertation on the structure of co-occurring anxiety and depression symptoms in youth with ASD. Dr. Rosen is passionate about increasing access to evidence-based mental health services for individuals with developmental differences.


Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Tamara Rosen is postdoctoral faculty fellow, LEND fellow at Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Tamara Rosen has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Also Available:
DVD
Product Code:
POS064765
Duration:
1 hour, 25 minutes
Copyright:
Apr 22, 2021
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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