Interprofessional Collaboration to Support Profoundly Autistic Individuals: Examples of Successes and Recommendations for Practitioners is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Interprofessional Collaboration to Support Profoundly Autistic Individuals, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer roles, fewer duplicated efforts, and better coordinated intervention, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →The complex needs of profoundly autistic individuals often require support from multiple clinical disciplines (Matson & Burns, 2019). While it is common for disciplines to deliver services independently, better outcomes may be achieved when disciplines work collaboratively, with each specialty open to sharing and receiving expertise and guidance from the other (Bowman, et al., 2021; LaFrance et al., 2019). A recent survey found that while individuals from different disciplines strongly desire to work together, they unfortunately report their experiences have been less than satisfactory (Bowman, et a., 2024). This panel presentation will focus on examples of successful collaboration between allied health specialists (speech-language pathology, occupation therapy) and behavior analysts. The aim will be to describe successful collaboration and the specific interpersonal and interprofessional strategies that facilitated effective collaboration, and how to overcome some of its known barriers (LaFrance et al., 2019; Wei et al., 2022). Questions and comments from the audience will be invited throughout.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
| NASW | 1 | — |
| PSY | 1 | — |
Dr. Zarcone is the Co-Director of the University of South Florida Florida Center for Inclusive Communities and Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies. She provides consultation and clinical support to staff regarding skill acquisition, interfering behavior, staff and parent training, and medication monitoring. Dr. Zarcone obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Florida. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a licensed psychologist. Dr. Zarcone has served in leadership positions for the Association of Behavior Analysis (ABAI) on the ABAI Practice and Science Board. She was the conference coordinator for the annual Autism Conference and a Fellow of ABAI. She served as an associate editor for several journals and as a mentor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
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244 research articles with practitioner takeaways
233 research articles with practitioner takeaways
225 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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