The Inaugural ASfAR Conference will be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, 6th – 7th December 2012. The full conference program is now available (see link below).
We’re pleased to welcome three international keynote speakers:
Prof Kevin Pelphrey (Yale University): Neuroscientific approaches to early identification and intervention
Prof Pat Howlin (Institute of Psychiatry, London and University of Sydney): Improving the quality of autism intervention research
Dr Liz Pellicano (Institute of Education, London and ARC Centre for Cognition and its Disorders): Explaining altered sensation and perception in autism
A further 75 submitted presentations have been grouped into 12 sessions:
- Early intervention
- Families and first hand experience of autism
- Education
- The female profile
- Language and reading
- Sensory and motor issues
- Infancy and early identification
- Anxiety
- Biology
- Faces and emotions
- Autistic traits
- Social cognition
