How Pediatricians and Other Healthcare Professionals Can Support Our Work

David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D
Association for Science in Autism Treatment

We hope you have been able to peruse our array of resources for pediatricians and other medical providers and learn more about how we can support your important work.

As it truly takes a village to support children with autism and their families, here are a few specific ways you can support our efforts in sharing information about science-based treatment. We deeply appreciate these efforts!

As an individual

• • Sign up for ASAT’s free, monthly publication, Science in Autism Treatment. You will receive the issue each month in electronic form.
  • Visit our website, asatonline.org. If you have any suggestions about our website or any topic you would like to see addressed online, please reach out to us at info@asatonline.org.
  • Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter and share our content.
  • Consider making a donation.
  • Learn about other ways to support ASAT.

As a clinician

• • As clinicians, you are in a unique position to pass along information about the resources ASAT offers to patients and their families. If parents are interested in learning further information about their child’s autism diagnosis or intervention options after a clinic visit, please refer them to ASAT’s website.
  • Encourage your patients and/or their families to peruse our library of Media Watch letters to read responses to accurate and inaccurate representations of autism and its treatment in the media.
  • Some particularly relevant items that can be shared with your patients include our annotated list of articles for parents of newly diagnosed children, our packet of information for parents starting behavioral intervention, our treatment summaries, and our page on becoming a savvy consumer (to name a few).
  • In your written reports, consider recommending ASAT. Here are two samples (the first one includes hyperlinks and the second does not):
    For current, high-quality information about autism and its treatment, visit the website of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT). In addition, sign up for their free monthly publication, Science in Autism Treatment.
    For current, high-quality information about autism and its treatment, visit the website of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (www.asatonline.org). In addition, sign up for their free monthly publication, Science in Autism Treatment at www.asatonline.org/newsletter/

• • Specific articles can be easily printed or shared using the options featured on the bottom left-hand corner of each article (see below for visual).
    

• • Share one-page flyersabout our newsletter and website, which are conveniently provided in English and over twenty other languages.
  • Please be aware that you can translate our entire website into any of over 100 languages by using the Google Translate function found at the top of our webpage. Learn more here.
  • Post the link to our newly published issues of Science in Autism Treatment on your practice’s Facebook page or other social media outlets.
  • Consider having your practice become a sponsor.

As a colleague, supervisor, or faculty member

• • Have your colleagues, staff, or students sign up for ASAT’s free, monthly publication, Science in Autism Treatment.
  • Alternatively, you can encourage them to fill out this sign-up sheet. Please encourage them to write legibly. You can scan completed sheets and send via email (newsletter@asatonline.org) or mail them to:
    • ASAT
      PO Box 1447
      Hoboken, New Jersey 07030

• • Some particularly relevant items that can be shared with your colleagues include our treatment summaries, research synopses, book and resource reviews, Clinical Corner library, and Is There Science Behind That? series.
  • If you are a mentor to early career medical professionals interested in helping ASAT in a more direct way, encourage them to consider our Externship Program. The 150-hour Externship is a personalized, flexible program open to individuals with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds.
  • Emphasize the importance of evidence-based practice when interacting with trainees. Please refer to ASAT’s dedicated page for medical professionals for further guidance.
  • If you are a faculty member, please visit our dedicated page for faculty members including a list of some activities for students.
  • Mention ASAT during your conference presentations. Write us at info@asatonline.org if you would like us to offer some slides.
  • We are also open to outside writers contributing content for Science in Autism Treatment.

Citation for this article:

Celiberti, D. (2022). How pediatricians and other healthcare professionals can support our work. Science in Autism Treatment, 19(11).

 

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