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Invited Presentations and Workshops

Each year I provide invited addresses and workshops at several state, regional and national conferences, as well as organization-specific events on several topics. Presentations involve a combination of PowerPoint slides, embedded video clips and oral presentation with Q&A. Occasionally presentations can be combined with case consultation depending on specific circumstances.

Generally such presentations need to be scheduled 3-6 months in advance. Sept-November and April-June are the busiest periods of the year and require the most lead time.

Presentation Topics:

• Individualized Autism Early Intervention: Blended Naturalistic and Discrete Trial Approaches

• Early Intervention and Brain Development

• Freedom from Meltdowns

• Overcoming Compulsive Behavior in Autism

Workshops:

• Autism Early Intervention

• Medication Management of Behavioral Challenges in Autism

Welcome to visitors to the Autism Treament website. This site is updated regularly and provides reliable information regarding Autism in a easily digestible form. From time to time visitors will find surveys of timely issues in this section. This helps provide visitors with dependable, practical information. Menu items at the top of the page with asterisks * are especially parent friendly.

Travis Thompson, PhD, LP is a licensed psychologist in the State of Minnesota in the USA, specializing in autism and related disability issues and services. His services can be accessed through this site. Michael Travis 2001

This photo with our grandson Michael who has an ASD was taken several years ago.

Dr. Thompson's Upcoming Speaking Engagments. CLICK HERE

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This week in Autism History: 1948: E.G. (Ted) Carr was born in Toronto, CA August 20, 1948 and died in a tragic automobile accident June 20, 2009. He joined Stony Brook University in 1976. Ted Carr was designated Leading Professor by the State University of New York in 2000. He made
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contributions to improving the lives of people with autism, but is perhaps best known for his work with Durand on communicative functions of challenging behavior, and his landmark article about the motivation for self-injurious behavior (Psychological Bulletin 1977; 84:800-16) which was a spring-board for using functional analysis and assessment procedures to understand and treat people with autism and challenging behavior.

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