Scientific Workshop Summary: Treatment January 16, 2008
The workshop chair, Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., remarked that the Treatment workshop participants were quite diverse and spanned the broad areas of treatment, intervention, and services for ASD. The participants began by identifying basic themes and then divided into subgroups to generate specific ideas. One subgroup focused on psychosocial treatments and services; another subgroup focused on biological or biomedical treatments; and a third subgroup considered ideas at the interface of the two approaches. The resulting research opportunities concerned topics such as: changing the developmental trajectory of ASD through early intervention; testing novel or commonly used treatments not yet studied empirically; addressing medical and psychiatric conditions that co-occur with ASD; identifying biomarkers of treatment responsiveness; compiling outcome measures sensitive to change; identifying treatments for adolescents and adults with ASD; conducting effectiveness and dissemination studies in real world communities; and, conducting cost-effectiveness studies.
Presentations of the Workshop Chairs to the Strategic Planning Workgroup (February 2008)
Treatment Workshop Participants
| Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D. Chair Director University of Washington Autism Center University of Washington |
Bryan Jepson, M.D. Medical Director Thoughtful House Center for Children |
| Margaret Bauman, M.D. Associate Professor, Neurology Harvard Medical School |
James Laidler, M.D. Portland State University |
| Ellen Blackwell, M.S.W. Health Insurance Specialist Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
David Mandell, Sc.D. Assistant Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics |
| Tony Charman, Ph.D. Professor, Institute of Child Health University College London |
Brenda Smith Myles, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Special Education University of Kansas |
| James Conroy, Ph.D. Center for Outcome Analysis, Inc. |
Samuel Odom, Ph.D. Director Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute University of North Carolina |
| Charles T. Gordon, M.D Child psychiatrist in private practice |
Lyn Redwood Vice President Coalition for SafeMinds |
| William Greenough, Ph.D. Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry University of Illinois |
Tristram Smith, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics University of Rochester Medical Center |
| Lee Grossman President and Chief Executive Officer Autism Society of America |
Sarah Spence, M.D., Ph.D. Pediatrics & Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch National Institute of Mental Health |
| Eric Hollander, M.D. Professor and Chair of Psychiatry Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
Aubyn Stahmer, Ph.D. Research Scientist Rady Children's Hospital |
