The Interdisciplinary Technical Assistance Center on Autism and Developmental Disorders is announcing a webinar that will be held on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. The webinar entitled Pathways to Employment for Transition Aged Youth and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders will review the research regarding employment outcomes for youth with ASD as well as review 3 important pathways to employment. Additionally, the presenters will provide specific examples regarding the supports youth and adults with ASD used to acquire and maintain employment in community-based integrated environments.
Presenters will be Paul Wehman, PhD, the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Carol Schall, PhD, the Co-Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Autism Center for Excellence, the Director of the Virginia Autism Resource Center, and the Principal Investigator in the development of the Community Based Functional Skills Assessment for Transition Aged Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders, a grant funded by Autism Speaks.
For more information about this webinar and to register, please visit:
http://www.aucd.org/itac/detail/event.cfm?event_id=7955&id=0&parent=650&parent_title=Events&url=/itac/template/page.cfm?id=650
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