Studying early social communication intervention and supporting families
Aksheya Sridhar, M.A. and Diondra Straiton, M.A. guest starred on the Making Sense Sensory Health Podcast Series from the STAR Insititute and shared five concrete action steps for clinicians to take in response to anti-black racism in the autism clinical pathway.
A big congrats to our undergraduate student @jessgreatorex, who was awarded an Autism Science Foundation’s Undergraduate Research Summer Grant of to support her research this summer. Jessie will work directly with ABA agencies that contract with Medicaid to determine how clinicians can better support parents participating in parent- mediated interventions.
Congratulations to our lab’s undergraduate students Jessie Greatorex and Teresa Girard for their presentations at UURAF!
Congratulations to Julia Nauman, the MSU Autism Lab’s Lab Manager, for receiving an Autistic Researcher Award from INSAR. Last year Julia won the Student and Trainee Award from INSAR and presented at INSAR’s 2021 virtual research conference.
You can view and download Julia’s 2022 Research Poster and Abstract entitled “Examining the Role of Attention Problems in Motor Stereotypy in Children with ASD” here.
During INSAR’s May 2021 virtual conference, Julia gave a presentation entitled “Examining the Relationship between Stereotypy and Attentional Problems and Diagnoses in Individuals with ASD”.
If you are an INSAR member, you can check out Julia’s abstract, as well as the other abstracts from the INSAR 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting here: https://www.autism-insar.org/general/custom.asp?page=2021AnnMtg
The MSU Autism Research Lab is seeking one to two full-time research assistants to begin around June, 2021 to work on a large multi-site treatment effectiveness trial: the RISE study! This position is ideal for a candidate looking to gain additional research experience in clinical psychology before applying to graduate school. Download the job ad below to learn more.
The MSU Autism Lab wishes everyone a Happy Holiday and would like to thank all of our staff, students, families, providers, and partners for making our research possible. Thank You!
Congratulations to Kaylin Russell and Brooke Ingersoll on their new publication, “Factors related to parental therapeutic self-efficacy in a parent-mediated intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder: A mixed methods study”. You can access their article at https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320974233
Congratulations to MSU Autism Lab members Karís and Diondra who presented a talk called “Family Training under the Michigan Medicaid Autism Benefit: Understanding provider and caregiver perspectives on engagement.” This was a mixed methods project that explored perspectives on parent training within the Michigan Medicaid Autism Benefit, which provides ABA services to Medicaid-enrolled children with ASD. They used data from Medicaid billing claims for 879 children, surveys from 97 providers and 226 caregivers, and interviews with 13 providers and 20 caregivers.
Providers expressed high perceived family-level barriers, while caregivers reported relatively few barriers and high motivation to participate. Their findings support efforts to increase the use of evidence-based family training strategies for children with ASD through more structured and comprehensive approaches that support best practices in engaging and collaborating with parents.
