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Autism Professional Training Program
Core Function: Professional Training
The mission of the Autism Center’s training program is to increase the capacity of the Puget Sound area to serve children with autism by providing high-quality training to community professionals and to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.
The Autism Professional Training Program prepares professionals to provide consultation and direct service to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and to train and supervise other professionals and paraprofessionals in schools, early childhood centers, hospitals, and other community agencies. Professional training experiences are available to professionals at different levels of education including residents, postdoctoral fellows, and University of Washington graduate students. In recent years this program has increased the types and frequency of trainings offered, thus increasing the number of participants trained. Long-term training experiences are available for advanced graduate students in psychology, education, and related services fields. Master’s and doctoral level clinicians receive shorter term training through the UW Continuing Education Program, and residents or fellows are provided direct clinical training and supervisory experience in working with children and adolescents with ASD.
This Autism Professional Training Program also offers a variety of training opportunities to community agencies, school districts and the general public throughout the year. In-service training and consultation are provided to schools, community agencies and mental health settings. A hands-on supervised program for home therapy assistants hired by parents is provided in the Early Childhood Autism Consultation Clinic.
The program also hosts a week-long Intensive Training course every summer for the general public that provides a survey of intervention strategies for children and adolescents with ASD. This is an introductory course that emphasizes the most recent, research-based recommendations for services and intervention for children at different ages.
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