Yale Autism Program

The Autism Program at Yale is an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scholars dedicated to providing comprehensive clinical services to children with autism spectrum disorders and their families. We are also one of the leading research centers in the world and were recently recognized as a National Institutes of Health Autism Center of Excellence. Our program involves infants, toddlers, pre-school, and school-age children, as well as young adults (18-21 years) with autism and related disorders and integrates highly experienced professionals from the fields of clinical psychology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging, child psychiatry, speech-language pathology, social work, genetics and the biological sciences, as well as psychopharmacology and psychiatric nursing. Our clinical and research activities are located in the Child Study Center at Yale University, School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.


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Autism Summer Session

News

  • REGISTER NOW & Save the Date! The 2013 Yale Child Study Center Annual Summer Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders will be July 22 - July 24th! Click here for this year's schedule! Register here!
  • VIDEO: Autism Q&A with the Autism Program's Dr. James McPartland! Click here to watch the video to learn more about ASD and what's going on at our program!
  • Dr. Kevin Pelphrey speaks about Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) at this year's IMFAR Conference. To read the SFARI article on the successes of PRT at the Yale Autism Program, Click Here!
  • Adult Virtual Reality-Social Cognition Training (VR-SCT) Study! To learn more and see if you are eligible, click here!
  • The Yale Autism Program will have 11 Oral Presentations and 19 Poster Presentations at this year's IMFAR (International Meeting for Autism Research) on May 2-4th in San Sebastian, Spain. Click here for a list of presentations and authors.
  • March 15th & 16th: Yale Clinician Kathy Koenig, M.S.N. will be speaking on the Unique Challenges of Girls on the Spectrum at the 23rd Annual Northeast Regional Conference on Autism at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
  • SEPTA Event: Plan Your Response for an Autism Emergency! April 10, 2013 Stratford, CT. To learn more about this event, click here!
  • Coming Soon: Pivotal Response Training (PRT) for Adolescents and Adults! Keep checking in to learn more! 
  • Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jamie McPartland, who has been elected Treasurer of the International Society for Autism Research!
  • Yale researchers spot attention deficits in babies who later develop autism. Read the full article Here...
  • Join us in congratulating Dr. James McPartland for being selected as an Award Recipient for the Robert E. Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Awards Program in Clinical Research. This work is a collaboration between Dr. Adam Naples and himself to investigate an electrophysiological marker of gaze sensitivity in autism.
  • NEW TREATMENT STUDY! Learn more about the Yale Autism Program's Pivotal Response Training (PRT)!
  • Autism Speaks has added Kathy Koenig's book Practical Social Skills for Autism Spectrum Disorders to their online resource library in the "social skills/ other interventions" section. Visit Autism Speaks full online resource library here...
  • Dr. Pelphrey talks about the new project to explore the root of Autism in girls. Read full article here.
  • Early treatment sparks striking brain changes in autism! Read about how PRT (pivotal response treatment) at the Yale Autism Program is showing 'significant improvements" among participants! To download the paper click here.
  • Read the New Haven Register Article interviewing Dr. Kevin Pelphrey and Dr. James McPartland about their new grant for a 5 year study on autism in females. Read Article Here...
  • Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kevin Pelphrey, Dr. James McPartland, Dr. Matthew State and Dr. Abha Gupta for receiving a 2012 Autism Center of Excellence Network Grant concentrating on ASD in females, specifically focusing on genes, brain function and behavior throughout childhood and adolescence. Read more here...

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Official Yale College program and course information is available at the Yale College Programs of Study. 

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