Eric Courchesne, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego

Jeff Wood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education, UCLA

Bryna Siegel, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Autism Clinic,
Children's Center at Langley Porter
University of California, San Francisco

Autism Treatment is Symptom-Specific: Which Treatments Treat Which Symptoms?
Bryna Siegel, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Autism Clinic
Children's Center at Langley Porter University of California, San Francisco
Interested in more effectively treating autism based on the child's specific
symptoms? Tired of seeing the one-size-fits-all model of service delivery
in the schools? In this session you will learn what the various symptoms of
autism mean for learning, and how features of treatments approaches can be
selectively used to address specific deficits. We'll discuss separating
treatment method (e.g., ABA or TEACCH) from curriculum content using a
developmental focus. You will learn an approach to more effectively
design and tailor strategies and interventions that fit specific symptoms

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Emotional and Social Problems among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Jeff Wood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education, UCLA
(Dr. Wood is filling in for Dr. Cronin who was filling in for Dr. Freeman)
Has your school been inundated with students diagnosed with Aspergers,
Autism, PDD-NOS? Do you need strategies to address emotional problems and
social deficits in children with autism spectrum disorders? Come hear from
one of the nation's experts. Learn what a clinician looks for when
differentiating these diagnostic categories, and how to apply cognitive
behavior intervention approaches to enhance emotional and social
development.

Biological Beginnings of Autism
Eric Courchesne, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego
Have you always wanted to better understand the role of brain development in autism, and yet find researchers in the field of neurobiology difficult to understand? Looking for the current thinking on the early beginnings of autism? Come hear the leading neuroscientist in the area of brain research in autism explain and discuss his ground breaking research. Dr. Courchesne will explain the underlying developmental neural defects that cause autistic behavior to emerge during the first years of life. This lecture will discuss the first studies to provide MRI and fMRI neuroimaging information about early growth and functional abnormalities in frontal lobes in autism, and new postmortem data that have provided the first quantitative and regional information about possible microstructural maldevelopment in frontal cortex.

Registration available at the door after Monday, May 9, 2006
$95 At the Door - checks and cash only
$45 At the Door Student Discount - checks and cash only

Registration includes continental breakfast and luncheon. Please send us a note if you have any specific dietary requirements or require any accommodations. Refunds must be requested in writing by May 1st, 2006 and will be subject to a $15 handling fee. No refunds will be issued after May 1, 2006. ucbschpsyc@gmail.com

Speaker Bios

Dr. Eric Courchesne is a Professor of Neurosciences at the University of California San Diego and director of the Center for Autism Research at the San Diego Children's Hospital. His research is focused on the neurobiology of autism. His efforts have produced new information about the structural, functional and genetic bases of this disorder. His work has been recognized through publication in such journals as Science and the J of Neuroscience. Dr. Courchesne studies the brain wiring and genetic basis of autism, hoping to discover the causes of this mysterious disorder that afflicts one in 500 people. Bio | Abstract

Dr. Jeff Wood is an Assistant Professor of Psychological Studies in Education at UCLA. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. He has received multiple grants from the National Institute of Health and the Cure Autism Now Foundation to develop and test a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention for children with high-functioning autism, Asperger syndrome, and PDD-NOS. His current clinical trial focuses on adapting CBT to address emotional and social difficulties among elementary school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders. He has recently published a treatment study of CBT in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. school web site

Dr. Bryna Siegel is a developmental psychologist, professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and Director of the Autism Clinic.  She will be talking about her latest book Helping Children with Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals, Oxford University Press, (2003) which describes an integrated ‘developmental behaviorism’ as a foundation for designing treatment of autism-specific difficulties in perception, processing and retrieval of information.  She is also the author of the newly-published Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test (PDDST-II) for early identification of autism (Psych Corp,/ Harcourt Assessment, 2004), as well as The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), and What About Me? Siblings of Developmentally Disabled Children (Plenum Press, 1994).  Her newest research project, JumpStart is a model for helping children with autism ‘learn-to-learn’, and for their parents to learn to use and evaluate integrated wrap-around home and school services. Dr. Siegel lectures frequently to parents and professionals internationally on treatment of autism.
Read more: CV (pdf) | Invited Lectures (pdf) | Purchase Dr. Siegel's Books  

Event Schedule
directions

8:00 Registration and continental breakfast - please arrive early!
8:30 Welcome
8:45 - 10:00 Dr. Jeff Wood: Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:30 Dr. Eric Courchesne: Biological beginnings of Autism
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:45 Dr. Bryna Siegel: Autism Treatment is Symptom-Specific pt 1
1:45 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 3:15 Dr. Bryna Siegel: Autism Treatment is Symptom-Specific pt 2
3:15 - 3:30 Closing

Mailing Address/Conference Contact Info

Mailing address: Event is at the HsLordships in Berkeley (directions)
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
School Psychology Program
4511 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
Attn: School Psychology Conference
ucbschpsyc@gmail.com

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41st Annual Conference

Preventing Academic and Behavioral Problems in Children: Rethinking Interventions for Schools

Friday,
May 9th, 2008

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