Recent Accomplishments

We are thrilled to share some of the outstanding accomplishments of the Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) this year:

  • Recently Published Our 72nd Monthly Issue of Science in Autism Treatment (SIAT): Each issue addressed topics crucial to both consumers and professionals, ensuring our community stays informed and engaged.
  • Created Content Inclusive of the Autism Spectrum: We remained steadfast in addressing all levels of ability and need within the autism community, ensuring new content was relevant, accessible, and high quality.
  • Published Articles Relevant to the Entire Lifespan: We remain committed to at least one quarter of our content addressing adolescents and adults with ASD.
  • Treatment Summaries: Our Scientific Review Committee published over 25 recent treatment summaries, which were disseminated via our newsletter and website.
  • Multilingual Outreach: We shared translated newsletter and website flyers in 23 languages reflecting the most spoken languages of the world, including Arabic, French, Hindi, Spanish, and Mandarin.
  • Website Enhancements: We expanded specialized pages for behavior analysts and faculty members creating a more robust resource hub. We reorganized our vast library of Clinical Corner articles to enhance accessibility.
  • Social Media Presence: Our active presence on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X (formerly twitter) kept our community connected and informed. These social media outlets offer another way for our members and others to interact with ASAT.
  • Responding to Media Representations: We continued to publish Media Corner Letters and social media alerts, ensuring an accurate representation of autism treatment in the media.
  • Leadership Expansion: We proudly added two new members to our Board of Directors—Maithri Sivaraman, PhD, BCBA, and Marianne Clancy, MA. Newly elected Officers include Maithri as Treasurer and Ruth Donlin, MS, as President, Mary Jane Weiss, PhD, BCBA-D, as Vice President, and Britta Gilmore Pomrantz, JD, PhD as Secretary. We are very grateful to Eric Larsson, PhD, BCBA-D, and Erin Leif, PhD, BCBA-D, for their prior service as President and Vice President respectively.
  • Externship Program: We welcomed several new externs with a few residing outside the United States. To date, we have provided externship experiences to over 50 individuals who are delivering evidence-based services to families and teachers throughout the world.
  • Training Development: Our training modules and activities for the externship experience were further developed, providing valuable learning opportunities.
  • Shareable Memes: We have continued to populate the page of shareable memes on our website. There are four subsections in English followed by pages in Spanish, Arabic, and French.
  • Webinars: We hosted two webinar events with Continuing Education Unit options for behavior analysts on supporting parental advocacy and promoting multidisciplinary collaboration.
  • Collaboration with Other Organizations: We have continued to publish monthly blogs with Different Roads to Learning, the NJABA, and APBA newsletters.
  • Sponsorship Growth: We successfully recruited several new sponsors both in North America and abroad, making 2024 another successful year for sponsorship campaigns and broadening our positive impact nationally and internationally.

The dedication and hard work of our community are truly inspiring. Here’s to another year of advancing science-based autism treatment together!

2025 Goals

With your help, we are excited to work toward these goals in the year ahead organized around the following themes:

Creating New Content

  • Continue to offer free, high-quality diverse content through our website and monthly publication, Science in Autism Treatment (SIAT) that embodies our commitment to science, compassion, and transparency.
  • Expand our offerings to parents of newly diagnosed children through adulthood.
  • Develop a specialized page for pediatricians and other healthcare providers serving the autism community, as well as printable materials that can be shared with families.
  • Further develop our existing page for teachers.
  • Host an array of continuing educational opportunities for professionals interested in best practices, ethical and compassionate service delivery, and evidence-based treatment (webinars, panel discussions, journal club).
  • Expand upon our Perspectives section and launch a campaign to collect and share impact stories from families, practitioners, and individuals with autism who have benefited from evidence-based practices.
  • Expand upon our Lifespan section with targeted resources for different age groups, including adolescents, adults, and seniors with autism.
  • Develop an annotated repository highlighting position statements and task force reports.

Making More People Aware of Our Offerings

  • Increase SIAT subscribers abroad.
  • Increase the number of Facebook likes, Instagram followers, Twitter followers, and LinkedIn connections and use social media more effectively to highlight our offerings and opportunities (e.g., Externship).
  • Increase ASAT’s visibility on the websites of other related organizations.
  • Translate our newsletter and website flyers into additional languages. Look for upcoming flyers in Tamil, Telugu, and Swahili to be added to our library of 25+ languages.
  • Create short, visually engaging infographics and video content for social media platforms.

Building Capacity

  • Expand upon our Professional Advisory Board with more medical professionals and tap more extensively into the wealth of experience and expertise of our members.
  • Network and develop ongoing collaborative relationships with specific organizations, professionals, teacher associations, pediatric groups, and parent leaders both here in the United States and abroad to promote awareness of our resources and offerings.
  • Cultivate relationships with faculty from universities here in the United States and internationally.
  • Create opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to learn more about science-based autism treatment and possibly serve in a liaison role working on shared projects.
  • Broaden our efforts to be a helpful resource to the journalism community.
  • Expand our sponsorship solicitation efforts to secure 100 professional sponsors both in North America and abroad.
  • Diversify our sponsors and look at ways to bring on new sponsors from different sectors and industries (e.g., state autism associations, advocacy groups, law practices, technology, medicine, etc.).

How you can help

  • Subscribe to our newsletter to remain informed about science-based treatments and encourage others to do the same. Encourage colleagues, families, and maybe your child’s team to subscribe as well.
  • Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X (formerly twitter).
  • Support our important work through a donation in any amount. You can donate here.
  • If you represent an agency that shares our values, please consider our sponsorship campaign.
  • Consider volunteering or participating in our externship program. If you are interested, please visit our volunteer page or externship page.
  • Learn more about other ways to support ASAT here.
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