Teachers, therapists, and parents will learn about reading development for students with autism with additional information on addressing reading comprehension, writing development, and writing interventions. Presenters will also discuss the nature of learning in the student with autism and the elementary and secondary education of verbally fluent students with autism.

 

It will be an enriched half-day packed with information that can help support our students’ learning. Registration for the event will come out around the first of the year.

 

Hear from these amazing researchers:

 

UC Davis Reading and Academic Development (RAD) Center Speakers

 

Peter Mundy, PH.D., School of Education, UC Davis RAD Center, the MIND institute and Department of Psychiatry.

Peter Mundy, a Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Personnel and Research in UC Davis School of Education. He is also the Lisa Capps Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Education at the UC Davis MIND Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is an expert in the education and development of children with Autism. As a developmental and clinical psychologist, Dr. Mundy has been working on defining the major dimensions of autism for the past 36 years.

 

Nancy McIntyre, Ph.D., UC Davis RAD Center Clinical Director & UC Davis Postdoctoral Scholar

Dr. Nancy McIntyre is a credentialed teacher turned researcher who has worked with children of diverse backgrounds and educational needs in preschool through high school settings. She is a Post-doctoral scholar at the UC Davis Rad Center. Her research focuses on children with developmental differences, and how they learn and grow in academic settings.

 

Alyssa Henry, UC Davis Graduate Student in Education, RAD Center Reading Interventionist and Reading Researcher

Alyssa Henry is a Ph.D. student in the UC Davis Graduate Program in Education. Her research focusses on how reading experience and intervention can affect the social-emotional and cognitive development of school-aged children with ASD

 

Matt Zajic, UC Davis Doctoral Candidate in Education, RAD Center Writing Researcher 

Matthew Zajic is a doctoral candidate in education. His research adopts social and cognitive process frameworks from writing research to explore how attention regulation, working memory, and reading abilities help researchers and educators to understand the writing difficulties experienced by children with ASD or ADHD. 

 

They will Address The following:

1)      The Nature of Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)  

2)      Elementary and Secondary Education for verbally fluent children with ASD 

3)      Reading development of school-aged children with ASD 

4)      Social and cognitive impact of a reading comprehension curriculum for ASD 

5)      Writing development and writing intervention for students with ASD