CME Sponsor:
National Association for Continuing Education (NACE)

Number of Credits:
6 hours CE

Cost:
Book and Online Test $99
Online Test Only $74

Detailed Description:
From leading clinical researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding and treating the early social-communication difficulties that are hallmarks of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is grounded in current findings on typically and atypically developing infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Contributors highlight the connections between ASD and impairments in joint attention, communication and language, play, and imitation. They review approaches to supporting children's functioning in each area, along with evidence-based screening and assessment strategies. Valuable advice is offered on matching treatment to individual children's needs. The book also explores the developmental and neurobiological processes that underlie social-communication deficits in ASD.

Learning Objectives:
  1. explain typical and atypical development of early social-communicative behaviors and their role in the assessment and diagnosis of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
  2. identify findings from studies that have applied autisdm screens in the general population and in referred samples
  3. discuss different treatment approaches that target early social-communicative development in young children with ASD
  4. explain the conceptual and empirical framework that outlines developmental and neuroscientific approaches to early social communicative development with typically developing children and with children who have ASD
Intended Audience:
This course is accredited for psychologists, school psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and addiction professionals.

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