Autism Assessment Fundamentals & Co-Occurring Conditions: 6th-7th February 2025
6 February 2025, 9:00 am to Friday 7 February 2025
Presented by Dr Fiona Zandt and Leonie Wilson
This is a 2-day workshop delivered online via Zoom live webinar.
$390 (inc. GST): General
$250 (inc. GST): Victorian CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS, Orygen clinicians, Take Two, Headspace, ACCHO/ACCHS, AMHS (including Forensicare), Childrens' Health & Wellbeing Locals (Brimbank-Melton/Loddon-Bendigo/Southern-Monash)
Limited free places available to Victorian ICYMHS/Orygen clinicians: Subject to availability
Please note our workshops sell out quickly and therefore may not be available. We are sorry if you cannot access the training you would like to at this time.
Who is the training for?
Mental health clinicians working with children and adolescents. E.g. Psychologists, psychiatrists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers, mental health nurses, paediatricians, advanced trainees in child & adolescent psychiatry, CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS clinicians, headspace clinicians and paediatric fellows.
For clinicians working with adults, please see our Adult Autism training.
Who provides the training?
Multidisciplinary specialist autism and neurodevelopmental assessment teams from a range of Victorian Infant, Child & Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS) & lived and living perspectives.
What does the training include?
This online training aims to provide a comprehensive grounding in the complexities of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessment for children and adolescents. Following the training you should be able to identify autism in the clients you see and refer appropriately for further assessment.
This two-day workshop includes:
- Exploration of integrating clinical autism assessment with neuroaffirming practice principles
- Videos of two assessments: Preschool/School-Aged and Adolescent
- How to take a neurodevelopmental history
- Differential diagnosis and co-occurring mental health conditions
- Understanding language and social communication differences
- Understanding differences in sensory processing
- Formulation of complex cases
- Providing neuroaffirming assessment feedback to families
- Guidelines for report writing.
This workshop is a prerequisite to enrolling in the ADOS-2 and ADI-R workshops offered at Mindful.
Pre-reading materials will be emailed 1-2 weeks before the workshop. This information will be assumed knowledge for the training.
What do participants say about the training?
“I really liked the discussion about neuroaffirming practice and how to balance this with the requirements to talk to the DSM-5 and funding bodies. The videos of assessments and exercises accompanying these were also brilliant!” (Oct 2024)
“Having access to videos of the diagnostic process was invaluable - it's one thing to read through a semi-structured interview sheet, and quite another to see it in practice. So grateful to the clinicians and families who consented to this.” (Mar 2024)
“The most clinically relevant & directly transferrable training I have ever done!” (Oct 2023)
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