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.
- 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 Twitter (X) 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 Watch letters and social media alerts, ensuring 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.
- 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 expanded 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 options for behavior analysts on supporting parental advocacy and promoting multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Collaboration with Other Organizations: We continued to publish monthly blogs with Different Roads to Learning and 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…
- Continue to offer free, high-quality content through our website and monthly publication, Science in Autism Treatment (SIAT) that embodies our commitment to science, compassion, and transparency.
- Increase SIAT subscribers abroad, as well as our outreach to teachers and parents of newly diagnosed children.
- Increase the number of Facebook fans, Instagram followers, Twitter followers, and LinkedIn connections and use social media more effectively to highlight our offerings and opportunities (e.g., Externship).
- Expand our website resources for parents of newly diagnosed children, faculty members, teachers, and physicians.
- Increase ASAT’s visibility on the websites of other related organizations.
- 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.
- Translate our newsletter and website flyers into additional languages. Look out for upcoming flyers in Tamil, Telugu, and Swahili to be added to our library of 20+ languages.
- 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 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.).
- 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.
- Create short, visually engaging infographics and video content for social media platforms.
- Enhance our support to teachers by reviewing practitioner-friendly articles and materials that highlight the use of evidence-based practices.
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 Twitter (X).
- 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.
