Autism Assessment Fundamentals and Co-Occurring Conditions: 5-6 February 2026
5 February 2026, 9:00 am to Friday 6 February 2026
Presented by Royal Children's Hospital & Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service Autism Assessment Teams
This is a 2-day workshop delivered online via Zoom live webinar.
$450 (inc. GST): General
$275 (inc. GST): Victorian clinicians in AMHS/Forensicare, headspace, Take Two, ACCHOs, & Children's Health & Wellbeing Locals
Limited FREE places available to Victorian ICYMHS clinicians subject to availability
Please read our Cancellation and Attendance policy before booking. 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.
What does the training include?
This online training aims to provide a comprehensive grounding in the complexities of autism 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 Youth
- 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 for ADOS-2 and ADI-R training at Mindful.
Pre-reading materials will be sent 1-2 weeks prior to the workshop date.
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, 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 and Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS) and lived and living perspectives.
What do participants say about the training?
“(I liked the) discussion on neurodiversity affirming practices and how to think about a strengths-based lens in assessment and report writing.”
“Helped me understand the variety in presentation and contextualise a lot of the different behaviours I see in my clients.”
“Loved the real-life case example, made the learning much clearer and more interesting”
“Love the discussion around differentiating different diagnosis, very technical and helpful!”
“I loved the contribution from Different Journeys with so many practical support resources that I can provide to families.”
Mindful - Autism Training Cancellation and Attendance Policy
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