Autism for Educators of School-Age Children – The Challenge for this Decade

Presented by:

Peter Mundy, Ph.D., Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Education, School of Education, Department of Psychiatry and the M.I.N.D. Institute, UC Davis

Co-sponsored by:
The Consortium for the Advancement of Child Health–Simon Fraser University & 
UBC’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism

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About the Workshop
Dr. Peter Mundy is one of the world’s leading specialists in the education of children with ASD. In this presentation, he will make the case that the current challenge in the field of autism education is how to spur advances at the elementary and secondary level to optimize outcomes for students. He will describe how improvements in early intervention may be associated with the increase in the percentage of school-aged children with higher functioning autism, but that this is not sufficient to optimize their development through to Grade 12. Dr. Mundy will describe new research and theory designed to target school-aged children, discussing where we are, and where we want to be, in developing a science of learning and educational interventions for school-age students with ASD. He will use research from his laboratory at UC Davis to illustrate some of the progress and challenges posed by this research agenda. In particular, Dr. Mundy will describe new research designed to improve methods for social attention intervention for older children.

About the Presenter

Peter Mundy is an internationally renowned leader in the education of students with autism. In this fascinating talk he will trace the history of how the understanding of autism has emerged over the past 75 years and discuss how contemporary science informs and advances education methods for preschool, elementary and secondary school aged children with ASD.