{"id":4867,"date":"2025-03-13T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=4867"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:23:54","slug":"research-forum-early-communication-in-autism-a-new-tool-to-support-clinical-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/event\/research-forum-early-communication-in-autism-a-new-tool-to-support-clinical-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Forum &#8211; Early Communication in Autism: A New Tool to Support Clinical Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Early Communication in Autism: A New Tool to Support Clinical Decision Making<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Communication challenges remain\u00a0one of the earliest concerns of parents whose children eventually receive an autism diagnosis. Many existing measures in autism only characterize communication differences but are not designed to monitor improvement over time or support clinical decision making.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation will describe a new tool, the Early Communication Indicator for Autism (ECI-A), which is based on an existing norm-referenced, validated measure and can be easily used within clinical practice.<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, <\/b><b>March 26, Noon \u2013 1 pm | <\/b><b>MacNider<\/b><b> 321<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/unc.az1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_0uibqSQ2hSc0CDI?Q_CHL=qr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">register<\/a> today to receive the Zoom link\/in-person lunch registration.<\/p>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4868 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/888\/2025\/03\/Brian-Boyd.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Boyd\" width=\"165\" height=\"177\" \/>Brian A. Boyd, Ph.D.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Director, Frank Porter Graham Child \u00a0 Development Institute<\/p>\n<p>William C. Friday Distinguished Professor, \u00a0 UNC-CH School of Education<\/p>\n<p><b>Questions? <\/b>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:DHS_ORS@med.unc.edu\">Department of Health Sciences Office of Research &amp; Scholarship <\/a>(<a href=\"mailto:DHS_ORS@med.unc.edu\">DHS_ORS@med.unc.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Communication in Autism: A New Tool to Support Clinical Decision Making Communication challenges remain\u00a0one of the earliest concerns of parents whose children eventually receive an autism diagnosis. Many existing measures in autism only characterize communication differences but are not designed to monitor improvement over time or support clinical decision making. This presentation will describe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/event\/research-forum-early-communication-in-autism-a-new-tool-to-support-clinical-decision-making\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Research Forum &#8211; Early Communication in Autism: A New Tool to Support Clinical Decision Making\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56087,"featured_media":4870,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4867","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}