The Science of Profound Autism [PAS 2024] belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In The Science of Profound Autism [PAS 2024], for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Profound Autism Summit
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →The term "profound autism" was coined in 2022 as a way to better describe individuals who will need intensive supports for their entire lives. This presentation will review the history and rationale for the term, provide scientific information on the specific needs and features of this group, and share updates on scientific research that is being adapted and conducted to ensure that these people are included in research. There will be plenty of time for questions.
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Alycia Halladay is the Chief Science Officer for the Autism Science Foundation, where she oversees all of the scientific activities, grant programs, funding projects and scientific initiatives of ASF including the Baby Sibs Research Consortium, the Alliance for the Genetic Etiologies of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Autism, the Next Gen Sibs project. Prior to joining ASF in 2014, she served as the Senior Director of Clinical and Environmental Sciences at Autism Speaks. She has authored over two dozen peer-reviewed papers in science journals around autism spectrum disorder, with a focus on the needs of the underserved and underrepresented in scientific research. Alycia also served on Board of Directors for the Phelan McDermid Syndrome Foundation and the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, and currently serves on the board of the Health Research Alliance and the Rare Epilepsy Network. Alycia leads and produces a weekly podcast about the newest scientific information relevant to autism families called the Autism Science Foundation Weekly Science Podcast. She is on the editorial boards of Neurotoxicology and Frontiers in Pediatrics. She received a PhD in biopsychology from Rutgers in 2001 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ in 2004. She still holds a faculty appointment at Rutgers. She is the parent to a 14 year old daughter with ASD.
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