Connie Kasari
Keynote Title: Early Interventions and Autism: Where we have been and the promise of where we can go!
University of California, Los Angeles, Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Psychology in the School of Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry.
Keynote Title: Early Interventions and Autism: Where we have been and the promise of where we can go!
She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been on the faculty at UCLA where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses and has been the primary advisor to more than 90 PhD students. She is a founding member of the Center for Autism Research and Treatment at UCLA.
Her research aims to development novel, evidence-tested interventions implemented in community settings. Recent projects include targeted interventions for early social communication development in at infants, toddlers and preschoolers with autism, and peer relationships for school aged children with autism.
She leads several large multi-site studies including a network on interventions for minimally verbal school aged autistic children, and a network that aims to increase equity in access to interventions for autistic children who are under-represented in research trials. She is the current past-president of the International Society of Autism Research.
Mary Beth Bruder
Keynote Title: International workshop on ECI systems of personnel development.
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Peter Rosenbaum
Keynote Title: CanChild’s F-words for child development: families and professionals, decades of learning.
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Carl J. Dunst
Keynote Title: Lessons Learned From Applied Family Systems Early Childhood Intervention Research and Practice.
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