This two-part workshop will enhance your ability to complete assessments for Participants will learn:
- How to take a comprehensive yet flexible approach to assessing for autism (spectrum disorder)
- To consider numerous complexities in assessing for autism across age and developmental level such as:
- Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on developmental outcomes
- How language and intellectual capabilities play in to differential diagnosis
- The complexities introduced by mental health issues
- The value and challenges of self-diagnosis, including the implications of social media influence
- Weighing evidence from observable behaviour and inner experience
- Masking and camouflaging
- Difficulties in obtaining third party reports or observations
- Obtaining developmental history from older adults
Also:
- How to approach the possibility of some or all of the assessment being completed virtually (e.g., ethical implications, appropriate referrals, collecting assessment information, limitations and uses, etc.)
- Different methodologies for behavioural observation, interaction, and interview (whether clinical or structured) as it relates to DSM-5 criteria
- Perspectives on how to integrate data from multiple sources and move beyond test scores in conceptualization and report writing, with samples provided