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ScienceinAutismTreatment

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Winter2012

ASAT

Providing Accurate, Science-Based Information - Promoting Access to Effective Treatment

Happy New Year! On behalf of ASAT, I hope

2012 brings you good things. I also hope that this

year will bring a deeper appreciation for the rele-vance of science in guiding autism treatment,

greater expectations of accountability from alltreatment providers, more accuracy within mediaportrayals, and heightened awareness of the pit-

falls and distractions of pseudoscience.

As you may recall, I shared many of our 2011 ac-

complishments in the Fall 2011 issue of Science in

Autism Treatment (SIAT). In late November, we

welcomed Dr. Daniela Fazzio to our board. Danielawill be heading up our international dissemination

efforts (please see photo above of Daniela hang glid-

ing over Rio de Janeiro).

We are anticipating an even more productive new

year. It is with great pride and optimism that I out-

line an array of goals and initiatives for 2012: Generate new content forwww.asatonline.org

and update the treatment summaries for biomed-

ical, behavioral and non-behavioral treatments.

Launch a webpage for journalists (tentatively

titledAutism Guide for the Media).

Launch a webpage for parents with a newly-

diagnosed child with autism.

Increase our global impact by including transla-tion of our content into various languages, in-

cluding directions on how to automatically trans-

late the whole site. We are beginning this pro-

cess, please see the upper-right corner of themain webpage.

Continue to identify ways in which ASATs ini-

tiatives can better address interventions for

adults with autism and support and guide theircaregivers. We also hope to expand coverage of

genetics, epidemiology, assessment & biomedi-cal treatment issues.

Increase Science in Autism Treatmentsubscriber

base from 7,000 to 10,000, and with subscriber

representation from 80 countries to at least 90countries.

Debut Focus on Science, a new column in our

newsletter that highlights the scientific method.

Dr. Daniel Mruzek coordinates this column and

you will find the first installment on page 12.

Increase our Facebook fans to 5,000, Twitterfollowers to 1,000, and increase ASATs pres-

ence on quality autism community blogs.

Create a resource booklet for pediatricians andprimary care physicians,Beyond an ASD Diag-nosis: Supporting Families Over the Lifespan. It

is hoped that this resource will improve the ca-

pacity of pediatricians, primary care physicians,and other health care professionals to help fami-

lies navigate the various treatment options safely

and effectively. Our goal with this resource is to

maximize children's outcomes, promote a highquality of life, and empower families to make

treatment decisions based on accurate infor-

mation.

Increase our presence within the medical com-

munity, particularly pediatricians and family

practice doctors by making information aboutASAT and science-based treatment available to

them.

Expand ASATs participation at state, regional,

national and international conferences. For ex-ample, ASAT was featured on the program of

the So Paulo School of Advanced Science: Au-

tism, in Brazil, and will join the Association for

Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Pro-gram Exposition in Seattle, Washington and oth-

er venues throughout the year.

Provide information regarding ASAT and autismto faculty in special education, psychology, and

speech pathology programs nationwide.

More extensively tap into the wealth of experi-

ence and expertise of our Advisory Board mem-(Continued on page 28)

Message from ASAT President,David Celiberti, PhD., BCBA-D

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