Child Development in Context Lab at UT Austin

Only 2 opportunities left to take part in our FREE PARENT TRAINING COURSE at UT Austin!!! Our next session is starting March 19th and the last one starting June 4th. Don’t miss out!

Register now for the next session at: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3DG8ZDZQyQor0Jn

Project SKILLS offers you and your child (up to age 10) two months of free individualized intervention at the UT Speech and Hearing Center. Parents work with UT clinical faculty and graduate clinicians to learn techniques to facilitate interaction, language, and play.

The course will utilize the parent training curriculum developed by Ingersoll & Dvortcsak (2010). This curriculum teaches parents to use a combination of developmental and behavioral strategies to increase their children’s social communication skills. Guiding principles of this intervention include: (1) Intervention is naturalistic, (2) Typical development is used to guide selection of treatment targets, and (3) children learn social communication through interaction with responsive caregivers.
Families will participate in group and individual sessions for 8 weeks (attending 1 session per week). We conduct 1 opening group session that will last approximately 2-hours and each individual session will last 1-hour. During the opening session, we meet with all enrolled parents in small groups (parents only) and go over introductory information. The subsequent seven individual sessions, tailored to each family, involve 1-2 graduate student clinicians, the participating parent, and child to cover detailed lecture, demonstration, and coaching over these specific skills.

Don’t have a lot of time? It’s only a one hour per week commitment to meet directly with us at UT for the 8 weeks. Typically, this is the same time each week. We have many afterschool timeslots to help meet your schedule. Then, you can implement the techniques at home at any time that works for you.

Can’t make it to UT campus? No problem! We can video conference with you using our secure software! All you need is a computer with we**am, iPad, tablet, or smart phone! We can even help you with that if you need to borrow one. Any family in Texas is eligible for this training course. We also provide services in Spanish and several other languages.
If you are interested in enrolling in our next session, please click on the following link to our scheduling survey for our next session starting in March:

https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3DG8ZDZQyQor0Jn

You’ll pick a time to attend our opening group session (week 1) and then your top 3 choices for times for your individual sessions with your child (weeks 2-8). Once you complete the survey, you are officially registered. We will confirm your individual time before you start in March.

You can also email us at [email protected] for more information!

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LOOKING: Infants (9-13 months old) who have an older sibling with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are needed to participate in a study on social development!

Receive $20-30 cash compensation for each of 4 visits. Infants are closely monitored for signs of ASD. Written summary of an assessment of older siblings with ASD.

Check out our flyer or give us a call for more information!

Are you a mother of a child with autism (age 2 -18)? Do you identify as Hispanic or Latina?

Complete a 1-hour survey on coping strategies, distress, and well-being. Receive $15 compensation for your time.

Check out our flyers below for more information!