Developing a Comprehensive Evidence-based Program for Serving Students with Autism

Wednesday December 6, 2017

10:30 AM-12:00 PM ; OHS 8B60 Auditorium

Developing a Comprehensive Evidence-based Program for Serving Students with Autism

Presenter

Pr. Joel Arick, Ph.D., Portland State University

Dr. Arick has experience working as an educator, researcher and trainer in the field of autism for over 30 years. He is the Project Director of the Oregon Program Autism Training Sites and Support Project and an autism consultant for STAR Autism Support. He is the lead author of the nationally used STAR (Strategies for Teaching based-on Autism Research) Program and Links Curriculum. He is also a co-author of several other published programs in the area of autism. These programs include the ASIEP-3 (Autism Screening Instrument for EducationalPlanning-3, 2004), the KADI (Krug Asperger Disorder Index,2003), and the FACTER Program (Functional Assessment and Curriculum for Teaching Everyday Routines, 2004).

Dr. Arick, with colleagues, has been measuring the progress of children educated using the STAR Autism Program, over the past fifteen years. He is also an author of a chapter entitled “School-based Programs for Children with Autism” in the Handbook on Autism (2005). Dr Arick is Professor Emeritus at Portland State University.