Matthew Belmonte is a research advisor to the Com DEALL Trust, Bangalore. His research in India, England, and the United States has asked what makes the difference between family members with and without autism, and also what underlies their many similarities. Belmonte helped establish the theory of abnormal brain connectivity in autism, has related prerequisite skills such as attentional and sensorimotor control to the emergence of social communication, and currently leads a project applying motor skills training to support development of communicative skills.Evdokia Anagnostou is a child neurologist, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and senior Clinician Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. She holds a Canada Research Chair in translational therapeutics in ASD and the Dr Stewart D Sims Chair in autism, and is elected to the board of the International Society for Autism Research. Her broad and integrative areas of research include neuroimaging, genetics, clinical trials, and studies of lived experience across neurodevelopmental conditions.

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• 1. Introduction and Overview2. History, ideology, and the therapeutic alliance3. Etiologies: molecular, neural, psychodynamic4. Clinical features, subtypes, and targets for therapy5. Screening, assessment, and diagnosis6. Interventions and therapies7. Autism across the lifespan

Matthew Belmonte is a research advisor to the Com DEALL Trust, Bangalore. His research in India, England, and the United States has asked what makes the difference between family members with and without autism, and also what underlies their many similarities. Belmonte helped establish the theory of abnormal brain connectivity in autism, has related prerequisite skills such as attentional and sensorimotor control to the emergence of social communication, and currently leads a project applying motor skills training to support development of communicative skills.Evdokia Anagnostou is a child neurologist, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and senior Clinician Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. She holds a Canada Research Chair in translational therapeutics in ASD and the Dr Stewart D Sims Chair in autism, and is elected to the board of the International Society for Autism Research. Her broad and integrative areas of research include neuroimaging, genetics, clinical trials, and studies of lived experience across neurodevelopmental conditions.

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• 1. Introduction and Overview2. History, ideology, and the therapeutic alliance3. Etiologies: molecular, neural, psychodynamic4. Clinical features, subtypes, and targets for therapy5. Screening, assessment, and diagnosis6. Interventions and therapies7. Autism across the lifespan

Matthew Belmonte is a research advisor to the Com DEALL Trust, Bangalore. His research in India, England, and the United States has asked what makes the difference between family members with and without autism, and also what underlies their many similarities. Belmonte helped establish the theory of abnormal brain connectivity in autism, has related prerequisite skills such as attentional and sensorimotor control to the emergence of social communication, and currently leads a project applying motor skills training to support development of communicative skills.Evdokia Anagnostou is a child neurologist, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and senior Clinician Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. She holds a Canada Research Chair in translational therapeutics in ASD and the Dr Stewart D Sims Chair in autism, and is elected to the board of the International Society for Autism Research. Her broad and integrative areas of research include neuroimaging, genetics, clinical trials, and studies of lived experience across neurodevelopmental conditions.

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• 1. Introduction and Overview2. History, ideology, and the therapeutic alliance3. Etiologies: molecular, neural, psychodynamic4. Clinical features, subtypes, and targets for therapy5. Screening, assessment, and diagnosis6. Interventions and therapies7. Autism across the lifespan