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33rd Annual TEACCH Conference: AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ACROSS the LIFESPAN
May 31st and June 1st, 2012
Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel – One Europa Drive – Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Conference Featured Speakers:
- Jed Baker, Ph.D. is the director of the Social Skills Training Project and an award winning author of five books, including Social Skills Training for Children and Adolescents with Aspergers Syndrome.
- Richard Grinker, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences, George Washington University, author of Unstrange Minds.
- Laura Klinger, Ph.D. Director, University of North Carolina - TEACCH and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina.
- Sally Ozonoff, Ph.D. Professor-in-Residence, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis M.I.N.D. Institute.
- Judy Reaven, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado. Director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic of JFK Partners, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
2012 Eric Schopler Lifetime Achievement Award:
At the Conference Dr. Gary Mesibov, former Director of TEACCH, will be given the 2012 Eric Schopler Lifetime Achievement Award, “In Recognition of Exemplary Leadership and Enduring Contributions to the Understanding and Treatment of Autism”.
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