Understanding Autism: Clinical Insights from Diagnosis to Treatment
This program will review the clinical phenotype of autism spectrum disorder focusing on the newer research which helps understand symptomatology when diagnosis is more challenging or less understood. Examples are in our youngest possible patients, thinking about the earliest signs and symptoms, girls, and other subgroups that lead to less diagnostic certainty. Thoughts of certainty and what to do will be discussed as well. In addition, given the newer tools and diagnostic possibilities coming to market – from AI technology through companies like Cognoa, EarliPoint biomarker tools such as eye-tracking, and services such as As You Are, the webinar addresses the science behind them as well as their pros and cons. How diagnostic evaluations and individual profiles on diagnostic measures inform treatment decisions will also be discussed along with current overviews on empirically validated treatments.
All orders include the entire presentation with handouts and a CE test.
Streaming videos and audio downloads will be available immediately after checkout
Mailed CD and DVD formats include the printed handouts and CE test in an attractive portfolio
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the current state of screening and diagnosis for children with autism spectrum disorder
- Describe the unfolding of autism and signs and symptoms to look for in children under the age of 2
- Identify what diagnostic uncertainty is and what to look for to increase certainty or what to do when uncertain
- Identify racial and ethnic differences and how to minimize structural racism in diagnosis of autism
- Critique the new technology being approved in the diagnosis of autism and understand the pros and cons.
- Describe the current empirically validated treatments for individuals with autism and understand high-level differences among them.
Topics
Clinical Phenotype of Autism
- What is autism?
- Prevalence of autism
- Early risk factors of autism
Screening and Diagnosis of Autism
- Screening tools
- Components of diagnostic evaluation
- Diagnoses in more complex populations – the very young, girls, co-occuring conditions
New Innovations
- As You Are
- AI companies
Intervention
- What do results of diagnostic evaluation mean for intervention recommendations?
- Current state of empirically validated interventions
- Specific interventions across the lifespan