Last week, READi Lab Director Wendy Stone spent time in sunny Miami and made an important stop at Florida International University. She was invited as a guest lecturer for FIU’s Center for Children and Families Speaker Series as part of a continuing education credit program. Her presentation was titled: Early Detection and Intervention for ASD: Are We Ready for a Preventative Intervention Model? and described the early behavioral features of autism, limitations of our current service delivery model, and presented an alternative delivery model—the Screen-Refer-Treat model, now being evaluated in the READi Lab—which could expedite access to early and specialized services for toddlers with autism. Besides presenting, Wendy’s time in Miami also included taking in some of the artsy scenes around the South Beach and Wynwood areas!
