54th Annual Gatlinburg Conference Sessions

Open Remarks

John Colombo, Chair
Rodney Samaco, Co-Chair
Eric Storch, Co-Chair

Symposium 1: Co-Occurring Psychiatric Conditions in People with Autism, Intellectual Disability, or Down Syndrome: Prevalence Rates and Service Use Across the Lifespan

• Brenna Maddox, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chair)
• Lauren Brookman-Frazee, University of California, San Diego (Discussant)
• Lauren Bishop, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Barbara Caplan, University of California, San Diego
• Brenna Maddox, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill

Symposium 2: Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young Autistic Children

• Lee Mason, Cook Children’s Health Care System (Chair)
• Alonzo Andrews, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Discussant)
• Alonzo Andrews, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Paper 1)
• Janet Enriquez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Paper 2)
• Lee Mason, Cook Children’s Health Care System (Paper 3)

Symposium 3: Masks, Mandates, and Mourning: Individuals with Neurodevelopmental and Genetic Disorders and Their Families During the Time of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic

• Jessica Goldblum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chair)
• Brian Boyd, University of Kansas (Discussant)
• Jessica Goldblum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Carly Hyde, The University of California, Los Angeles
• Alan Gerber, Stonybrook University

Symposium 5: Executive function in brain and everyday life: Lessons from autism, Down syndrome, and mixed etiology developmental disorders

• Nancy Raitano Lee, Drexel University (Chair)
• Benjamin Yerys, University of Pennsylvania(2nd Chair)
• Lauren Kenworthy, Children’s National Medical
  Center (Discussant)
• Goldie McQuaid, George Mason University
• Benjamin Yerys, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Nancy Raitano Lee, Drexel University
• Emily Kuschner, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Symposium 6: From biology to behaviour: modelling cause and intervention for problem behaviours

• Caroline Richards, University of Birmingham (Chair)
• Frank Symons, University of Minnesota (Discussant)
• Frank Symons, University of Minnesota
• Catherine Laverty, University of Birmingham
• Adele Dimian, University of Minnesota
• Laura Groves, University of Birmingham
• Scott Hall, Stanford University

Symposium 7: Behavioral Interventions to Support Employment Transition Services for Autistic Transition Age Youth

• Matthew Smith, University of Michigan School of Social Work (Chair)
• Lauren Bishop, University of Wisconsin (Discussant)
• Connie Sung, Michigan State University
• Matthew Smith, University of Michigan
• Kari Sherwood, University of Michigan

Symposium 8: Novel approaches to behavioural phenotype research in genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability

• Jane Waite, Aston University (Chair)
• Jane Roberts, University of South Carolina (Discussant)
• Stacey Bissell, University of Birmingham
• Georgie Agar, University of Birmingham
• Hayley Crawford, University of Warwick
• Joanna Moss, University of Surrey
• Katherine Ellis, University of Surrey

Symposium 9: Parenting Interventions for Diverse and Low-resourced Families and Communities

• Weiwen Zeng, University of Texas at Austin (Chair)
• Sarah Dababnah, University of Maryland, Baltimore (Discussant)
• Megan Kunze, University of Oregon
• Sandra Vanegas, Texas State University
• Weiwen Zeng, University of Texas at Austin

Elizabeth M. Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center

Symposium 10: Patient-Researcher Partnerships Across Rare Genetic Forms of NDD and ASD

• Shafali Jeste, University of California at Los Angeles (Chair)
• Alycia Halladay, Rutgers University (2nd Chair)
• Wendy Chung, Columbia University (Discussant)
• Shafali Jeste, University of California at Los Angeles
• Elizabeth Jalazo, University of California at Chapel Hill
• Jill Silverman, University of California at Davis MIND Institute

Symposium 11: Development and Evaluation of Virtual Adaptations of Evidence Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fragile X Syndrome

• Rebecca Shaffer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Chair)
• Judy Reaven, JFK Partners, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Discussant)
• Vivian Lee, York University
• Amy Banasik, UC Davis Mind Institute
• Jasper Estabillo, UCLA
• Rebecca Shaffer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Symposium 12: Evidenced-Based Interventions for Individuals with Developmental Delays and ASD: A Focus on Latino Families

• Cameron Neece, Loma Linda University (Chair)
• Sandy Magaña, University of Texas at Austin (Discussant)
• Jonathan Safer-Lichtenstein, University of Oregon
• Kristina Lopez, Arizona State University
• Ann Marie Martin, University of California, Riverside

Symposium 13: Parent-Child Interactions: Implications for Social-Communication Intervention and Treatment in Down Syndrome

• Susan Loveall, University of Nebraska – Lincoln (Chair)
• Leonard Abbeduto, University of California, Davis MIND Institute (Discussant)
• Laura Mattie, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
• Susan Loveall, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
• Marie Moore Channell, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
• Ciara O’Toole, University College Cork

Symposium 14: A Continuum of Technology Use in Parent Mediated Interventions

• Lauren Little, Rush University (Chair)
• Brian Boyd, University of Kansas (Discussant)
• Brittany St. John, University of Wisconsin Madison
• Anne Hoffmann, Rush University
• Anna Wallisch, University of Kansas
• Lauren Little, Rush University

Symposium 17: Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Novel Clinical and Treatment Outcomes Measures

• Debra Reisinger, Indiana University School of Medicine (Chair)
• Rebecca Shaffer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Discussant)
• Deanna Swain, Weill Cornell Medical College
• Marika Coffman, Duke University School of Medicine • Debra Reisinger, Indiana University School of Medicine
• Lauren Schmitt, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Symposium 18: Remote delivery of behavioral intervention for ASD: challenges, successes, and considerations moving forward

• Carly Hyde, University of California, Los Angeles (Chair)
• Connie Kasari, University of California, Los Angeles (Discussant)
• Allison Wainer, Rush University
• Carly Hyde, University of California, Los Angeles
• Ellen Doernberg, Case Western Reserve University
• Katherine Okoniewski, RTI International, Research Triangle Park
• Meredith Bucher, Purdue University

Jessica Duis, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, University of Colorado

Road to Therapeutics from A to Z: Lessons Learned from Chromosome 15 Jessica Duis’s talk will be about the steps to therapeutics and how to set up a rare disease for clinical trials. It will focus on outcome measures, natural history, disease concept modeling, partnership for relevant translational studies.

Thursday, April 8, 10:40-11:40 (CDT)