Research on autism – an international perspective
Pre-conference INSAR 2023 Annual Meeting
Date: 2023-05-02
Time: 13.15 - 17.00
Location: Sune Bergströms Aula, Solnavägen 30, Stockholm
Research in autism is worldwide. At this pre-conference, we will hear from three world leading researchers who will provide international perspectives on autism research. Learn about interventions in low-resource settings in India, how researchers and individuals with autism work together in the U.S, and how approaches to autism have changed over eight decades.
The conference is in English. Free admission but registration is required in advance.
Presentations
Program
13.15 Introduction by Professor Sven Bölte
Sven Bölte is the director of the Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND) in Stockholm and is one of the world's top ten autism researchers.
13.20 Innovating for autism in India
Gauri Divan is Director of the Child Development Group in the non-for profit organization Sangath, based in India. She will speak about providing services to children in low-resource settings where access to evidence-based interventions is sparse.
14.05 Break
14.20 Understanding autism by learning together
Wendy Chung is Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine at Columbia University, New York. She will speak about a project where individuals with autism and researchers learn together about autism. To date, 100 000 individuals with autism have connected with 150 researchers.
15.05 Coffee break
15.35 Eight decades with autism
Patricia Howlin is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at King’s College, London. She will speak about how our understanding of and approaches to autism have changed over the years. Once viewed as a profound and life- long disability, autism is now recognized as a highly heterogeneous condition that can also be associated with many positive traits.
16.20 Panel discussion
Sven Bölte will lead a panel discussion where attendees will be invited to ask questions of the speakers.
Admission
Free admission but registration is required in advance.
Ticket
About a week before the conference, you will receive a welcome letter to the email address you provided when registering. That is your ticket. If you do not receive a letter - check if it has ended up in the spam folder. For faster handling on-site, we ask you to print the ticket and bring it with you on the day.
Recording
The conference will be filmed and the audience may be seen on the video. The video will be available here after the conference.
Coffee
We will offer coffee and snacks in the second break.
Contact
For more information, please contact info@kind.ki.se
INSAR
The pre-conference is sponsored by International Society for Autism Research (INSAR).
