1999 CONFERENCE BROCHURE TO USE AS GUIDE WITH AUDIO TAPE ORDER

The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental & Learning Disorders
Third Annual Scientific Meeting

  International Conference on AUTISM
and
Disorders of Relating & Communicating

NOVEMBER 12, 13, 14, 1999
Hilton McLean Tysons Corner, McLean, Virginia
(Washington, D.C. metropolitan area)

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• New approaches to screening and diagnostic classification
• Early indicators and warning signs
• Identifying the core deficit in autism - including discussions of theory of mind and the central role of affect-
• Biomedical advances
• New findings on underlying biological mechanisms
• ICDL clinical practice guidelines, case presentations and a unique dialogue among the international faculty

A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM THE WORLD'S FOREMOST INVESTIGATORS AND CLINICIANS IN THE FIELD OF AUTISM, INCLUDING

• Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, U.K. Theory of Mind & the C.H.A.T.
• Margaret Bauman, M.D., Harvard Univ. Medical School Underlying Biological Mechanisms
• Christopher Gilberg, M.D., Goteborg University, Sweden Is Autism Increasing?
• Stanley Greenspan, M.D., GW Univ. Med. School - The D.I.R. Model, Including Floortime
• Eric Hollander, M.D., Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Pharmacologic & Immunologic Approaches
• Catherine Lord, Ph.D., University of Chicago A.D.O.S. & A.D.I.
• Nancy Minshew, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Neuropsychological Mechanisms, Neuroimaging
• Julie Osterling, Ph.D., University of Washington- Early Infant-Caregiver Interactional Indicators
• Marian Sigman, Ph.D., Univ. of CA, Los Angeles Early Indicators of Joint Attention Deficit
• Ricki Robinson, M.D., M.P.H., USC Medical School Biomedical Advances
• Peter Tanguay, M.D., University of Kentucky Dimensional Analyses of Lang., Social, Attention
• Philip Teitelbaum, Ph.D., University of Florida Motor Indicators of Autism in the First Year
• Roberto Tuchman, M.D., Univ. of Miami Med. Sch. Attention and Motor Planning
• Amy Wetherby, Ph.D., Florida State University Screening for Language Disorders
• Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Associate Chair, ICDL, Developmentally Based Classification of Autism
• Andrew Zimmerman, M.D., Johns Hopkins Med. School How Early Can Autism be Identified?
• PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental & Learning Disorders

Friday, November 12
8:00 – 8:15 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., Chair, Interdisciplinary Council and
• Mark Rosenbloom, M.D., President, Unicorn Children’s Foundation

Screening and Diagnostic Classification for Autism &
Other Disorders of Relating and Communicating

• Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Chair
• Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D., Developer of the C.H.A.T. - Screening of General Population for Autistic Disorders at 18 Months; Reliability, Validity and Follow-up
• Catherine Lord, Ph.D., Developer of A.D.O.S. and A.D.I. - Diagnostic Methods for Clinical Practice and Research
• Christopher Gillberg, M.D., New Screening Tools for Aspergers Syndrome and High Functioning Autism
• Amy Wetherby, Ph.D., Screening for Social and Communicative Disorders in the First Two Years
• Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Developmentally Based (DIR® Model) Indicators of Progress and New Classification of Disorders of Relating and Communicating, Including Autistic Spectrum Disorders

The Earliest Indicators of Autistic Disorders;
New Findings on Early Warning Signs,

• Andrew Zimmerman, M.D., Chair
• Philip Teitelbaum, Ph.D., Motor Indicators of Autism in the First Year
• Julie Osterling, Ph. D., Early Infant Caregiver Interactions in Autism
• Marian Sigman, Ph.D., Early Indicators of Joint Attention Deficits in Autism Disorders
• James Cassily and Roberto Tuchman, M.D., The Interactive Metronome, a Novel Intervention to Strengthen Motor Planning and Attention

Our View From the Floor: AKA Going in Circles

A panel presentation by parents. Parents and professionals are welcome to attend. Reception follows panel.  To order a video tape of this session click here.

The Core Deficit in Autism and Disorders of Relating and Communicating

• Stanley Greenspan, M.D., Chair
• Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D., Theory of Mind
• Peter Tanguay, M.D., Dimensional Analyses of Social, Language and Joint Attention Capacities in Autism
• Christopher Gillberg, M.D., Aspergers Syndrome and High Functioning Autism
• Nancy Minshew, Ph.D., Neuropsychological Mechanisms, Neuroimaging, and Information Processing in Autism
• Stanley Greenspan, M.D., The Affect-Motor Planning, Symbol Formation Connection in Autism and Disorders of Relating and Communicating

Biomedical Advances

• Ricki Robinson, M.D., M.P.H. Chair
• Christopher Gillberg, M.D., Why is Autism Increasing; New Epidemiological Findings
• Eric Hollander, M.D., Advances in Pharmacologic and Immunologic Approaches to Autism

Underlying Biological Mechanisms in Autistic Spectrum Disorders

• Margaret Bauman, M.D., Chair
• George Anderson, Ph.D., The Neurochemistry of Autism
• Margaret Bauman, M.D., Underlying Biological and Neuroanatomical Patterns in Autism
• Diane Chugani, Ph.D., Altered Serotonin Synthesis Capacity in Autism
• Susan Folstein, M.D., The Genetics of Autism

RELIMINARY PROGRAM Autism & Disorders of Relating and Communicating

ICDL Clinical Practice Guidelines and Case Presentations & a Unique Dialogue Among the International Faculty

Presentation of the ICDL Developmentally Based Clinical Practice Guidelines with a discussion among the international faculty. The dialogue will include discussion of children with the following types of challenges: problems in relating and communicating, high functioning autism, Aspergers Syndrome, and typical and slow to progress autistic disorders. Case presentations with video illustrations will be featured and. parent and family perspectives will be included in both the case presentations and discussion.

Panelists will include:

• Christopher Gillberg, M.D.
• Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
• Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D.
• Eric Hollander, M.D.
• Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
• Ricki Robinson, M.D., M.P.H.
• Peter Tanguay, M.D.
• Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
• Nancy Minshew, Ph. D.

1999 Faculty

• George M. Anderson, Ph.D.  -- Research Scientist, Yale University Child Study Center
• Simon Baron-Cohen, Ph.D.  -- Lecturer in Psychopathology, Co-Director of the Autism Research Centre  -- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Margaret Bauman, M.D.  -- Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard University Medical School
• James F. Cassily  -- Inventor, Interactive Metronome
• Diane Chugani, Ph.D.  -- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Radiology, Wayne State University
• Susan Folstein, M.D.  -- Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Christoper Gillberg, M.D.  -- Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry  -- Goteborg University, Sweden
• Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.  -- Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences & Pediatrics  -- George Washington Univ. Med. School and Chair, ICDL
• Eric Hollander, M.D.  -- Professor of Psychiatry, and Clinical Director,    -- Seaver Autism Research Program, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
• Catherine Lord, Ph.D.  -- Professor, Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Chicago
• Nancy Minshew, M.D.  -- Associate Prof. of Psychiatry & Neurology, Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med.
• Julie Osterling, Ph.D.  -- Associate Director, Autism Research & Clinical Services  -- University of Washington, Seattle
• Marian Sigman, Ph.D.  -- Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Psychology. UCLA
• Ricki G. Robinson, M.D., M.P.H.  -- Clinical Prof. of Pediatrics, Univ. of Southern California School of Medicine
• Mark Rosenbloom, M.D.  -- President, Unicorn Children's Foundation  -- Instructor, Emergency Room Medicine, Northwestern Medical School
• Peter Tanguay, M.D.  -- Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Louisville
• Philip Teitelbaum, Ph.D.  -- Graduate Research Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Florida
• Roberto Tuchman, M.D.  -- Clinical Assistant Prof. of Neurology, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine
• Amy Wetherby, Ph.D.  -- Professor of Communication Disorders, Florida State University
• Serena Wieder, Ph.D.  -- Clinical Psychologist and Associate Chair, ICDL
• Andrew Zimmerman, M.D.  -- Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry  -- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

• Stanley Greenspan, M.D., Chair
• Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Associate Chair
• Frederik Almqvist, M.D.
• Margaret Bauman, M.D.
• Lois Black, Ph.D.
• Cecilia Breinbauer, M.D.
• Harry Chugani, M.D.
• Susan Coates, Ph.D.
• Leon Cytryn, M.D.
• Georgia DeGangi, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA
• Barbara Dunbar, Ph.D.
• Sima Gerber, Ph.D., CCC
• Arnold Gold, M.D.
• Myron Hofer, M.D.
• Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D.
• Pnina Klein, Ph.D.
• Karen Levine, Ph.D.
• Pat Lindamood, M.S., CCC-SLP
• Toby Long, Ph.D., P.T.
• Darcy Lowell, M.D.
• Jane Madell, Ph.D.
• Arnold Miller, Ph.D.
• Robert Nardone, M.D.
• Stephen Porges, Ph.D.
• Barry Prizant, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
• Ricki Robinson, M.D., M.P.H.
• Molly Romer Witten, Ph.D.
• Mark Rosenbloom, M.D.
• Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok M.S.W., Ph.D.
• Milton Shore, Ph.D.
• Richard Solomon, M.S.
• Gerry Stefanatos, D. Phil.
• Gordon Williamson, Ph.D.
• Andrew Zimmerman, M.D.