Autism

2037V - Integrating Knowledge and Teamwork: Collaboration on an Interdisciplinary Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnostic Team

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Format: 1-Hour Seminar (Virtual)

Audience: Students, Public/Consumers, Related Professionals, Early Career Professionals (under 5 years)

Keywords: Autism, diagnostics, interdisciplinary, team, collaboration

Presenting Author(s)

Alison Lamoureux

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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Aaron Tanner

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Emily McFadd

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
C. Blake French

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

An interdisciplinary team is frequently recommended as a best practice standard in clinical guidelines for diagnosing children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A speech-language pathologist has a significant role on such a team. This presentation will describe and discuss the structure and collaboration of interdisciplinary diagnostic teams and speech-language pathologists’ roles and contributions within these teams at a children’s hospital’s ASD and related disorders clinic.

Learning Objectives:

Describe two benefits of an interdisciplinary team being used for ASD diagnosis
List three developmental areas that are assessed by an interdisciplinary ASD diagnostic team
Identify three social communication areas that could be evaluated by a speech-language pathologist