Saturday

8:00 AM-3:50 PM

Intermediate

Length

CE Credits 7

This intermediate workshop prepares clinicians to use an evidence-based practice for parent training (PT) for autistic children. Serving the growing number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a rising challenge for clinical providers. Parent-training programs are scalable and culturally congruent approaches, which are also empirically supported, time limited, and cost effective. Participants learn how to implement the RUBI-PT program (Bearss et al., 2015) for children with ASD and disruptive behavior across multiple modalities, cultural contexts, and community-based implementations. RUBI-PT provides a structured approach for clinicians who have less training in treating children with ASD.

Eric Butter, PhD, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Cynthia Johnson, PhD, Cleveland Clinic; Karen Bearss, PhD, University of Washington