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Autism Clinical Services
Core Function: Clinical Services
The Autism Clinical
Services project provides state-of-the-art comprehensive and coordinated
services to children from infancy through adolescence at risk for
or with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and/or Asperger syndrome,
and their families. Clincal services fall into five unique services
areas that are each described in separate projects listed under
the Autism Center program. The five clinical services projects
are (1) Autism Behavorial Intervention, (2) Autism Diagnostic Services,
(3) Autism Early Intervention Services, (4) Autism Social Skills
Groups, (5) Autism Speech-Language/Occupational Therapy Services.
The following service areas comprise
the overall Autism Clinical Services projects.
- Behavioral
Intervention involves working with the child, family and/or
school staff to promote a child's ability to function successfully
and adaptively at home, in the community, and/or at school.
- Diagnostic
Services use an interdisciplinary approach to diagnose infants,
children, and adolescents who have or are suspected to have ASD.
Disciplines include education, psychology, speech and language,
occupational therapy, and pediatrics.
- Early
Intervention Services are provided by early childhood autism
consultants (ECAC) who help develop home programs for children
with ASD. The ECAC team uses a variety of empirically supported
intervention techniques designed to promote children's communication,
play, academic skills, imitation, motor skills, and social/emotional
skills.
- Social
Skills Groups are used to teach children pivotal social skills,
increase their sense of affiliation with others, and improve self-esteem.
All groups are moderated by psychologists and include between
3 and 12 clients.
- Speech–language
and occupational therapy (OT) services support communication,
sensory, and motor development of clients.
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