Marcus Autism Center Grand Rounds 12/8/17
Location: 1920 Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 (2nd Floor Bellsouth Conference Room
Featured Presenter
Matthew D. Lerner, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry & Pediatrics
Director, Social Competence & Treatment Lab
Stony Brook University
Learning Objectives
Following the education, the learner will be able to:
- Develop a basic understanding of the theoretical assumptions underlying social skills deficits and interventions for youth with high functioning ASD
- Discover the distinction between social knowledge and social performance deficit, and the unique implications of each for intervention design
- Learn about emerging lab- and community-based research designing to optimize social skills interventions by better characterizing the type of deficit experienced by each individual and designing intervention to match empirically-derived treatment profiles