Wisconsin Community of Practice on Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Developmental Disabilities
Early Identification and Autism
December 19, 2024
9:00am-11:00am
A free, virtual gathering
Join us for an event focused on Early Identification and Autism, where we’ll explore important ways to support people on the Autism Spectrum.
We’ll talk about the barriers families and professionals often face, but also highlight innovative strategies to improve identification and care.
We’ll cover care navigation, making it easier to connect with the support you need.
Finally, we’ll discuss ways to tackle social communication challenges at home and school.
Upcoming events and Resource Sheet from the 12/19/24 Gathering: CoPASDD12.19.24ResourceSheet
Sessions
Early Identification/Systemic Barriers/Innovative Approaches — Lily Wagner, PhD, LP, BCBA Director, Autism and Developmental Disabilities (A&DD) Clinic & Associate Professor, Waisman Center
Recording Slides: CoP ASD Early ID Slides 12.19.24
9:50-10:25 Strategies for Addressing Social Communication Difficulties at Home and at School — Kellie Haugen, MS CCC-SLP Senior Speech-Language Pathologist A&DD Clinic, & Haley Takau, Waisman Center
Recording Slides: Social Communication 12.19.24
10:30-10:50 Care Navigation — Erin Thomson, LCSW Senior Clinical Social Worker, A&DD Clinic, Newborn Follow-up Clinic, Autism Treatment Programs, Waisman Center
Recording Slides: Care Nav Slides 12.19.24
This day is a partnership with Waisman Center’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disability Wisconsin Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities program and a number of individuals and organization leading the CoP ASD/DD. The purpose of the Community of Practice on Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities (CoP ASD/DD) gatherings is to bring together diverse stakeholders from across the state. The CoP ASD/DD aims to improve the formal and informal systems of services and supports for individuals with ASD/DD, their families, and the professionals who work with them.
The Children’s Resource Center-South partners with the Wisconsin LEND program in supporting the CoP ASD/DD. The SRC tries to help families, and the professionals who support them, through providing current resources, news articles, interesting items and more. Please feel free to visit home page . We regularly post this content and more on our Facebook page. We send out a Resource Round-up on most Fridays (send an email with Weekly Resource Round-up in the Subject Line to crcsouth@waisman.wisc.edu to join).
Finding Your Way: A Navigation Guide for Wisconsin Families Who Have Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities is available as a website, as a downloadable .pdf, and you can order print copies from soetzel@wisc.edu
A Spanish language edition of the guide, Encuentre su Camino, is available as a website, as a downloadable .pdf, and you can order print copies from soetzel@wisc.edu
Here is a place of connections and relationships. We truly believe we are better together. We hope this web site will serve as a portal to introduce you to a number of exciting opportunities available in Wisconsin. Here you can connect to a large number of resources concerning autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. Here you will find training on screening, assessment, diagnosing, communicating results, starting a medical home and more, much more. Here you can join with over 2000 other people representing over 50 organizations at a state-wide Community of Practice.
Together we can make a difference. We invite you to look through this portal and see what we are working on and we invite you to join us. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Tim Markle at markle@waisman.wisc.edu
- Grant Information for the Connections Grant (2008-2011)
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