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Autism Professional Training Program
Core Function: Professional Training
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. Other training and workshops are available to all community agencies that would benefit from understanding how to identify and work with individuals with ASD.
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 shorterterm 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. It 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. Workshops currently include in-service training on assessment and diagnosis of ASD, high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome (HFA/AS), educational recommendations for HFA/AS, and the use of video modeling to promote functional skills in children with ASD and paraprofessional aide training. Other topics covered during workshops may include social skills development, emotion regulation, visual structure, applied behavior analysis, sensory processing/motor functioning, behavioral management, executive functioning, and speech and language issues.
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