SPOTLIGHT: Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)

Learning products and resources to assist the public health community and healthcare providers to understand more about autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and developmental disabilities. Research shows that early intervention treatment services can greatly improve a child’s development.

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) Learning Products

Autism Case Training: Part 1 Identifying

• Designated for practicing healthcare professionals
• Focuses on early warning sign of ASDs and the screening process

Autism Case Training: Part 2 Diagnosing

• Designated for practicing healthcare professionals
• Focuses on the process of making an ASD diagnosis and communicating concerns about screening and diagnosis results to families

Autism Case Training: Part 3 Managing

• Designated for practicing healthcare professionals
• Focuses on early intervention and education, treatments, and autism-specific anticipatory guidance for children with ASDs

Learn the Signs. Act Early.

• Provides an educational foundation to help increase child care providers awareness and knowledge of children’s developmental milestones and the relationship of those milestones and missed milestones to developmental problems and ASDs

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) Resources

Valuable training and learning resources on the Spotlight topic, intended for the public health community.

• The Autism Education Network
  • Downloads
  • Education
• CDC
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)
    • Free Materials
    • Information for Early Childhood Educators
    • Information for Healthcare Providers
    • Screening and Diagnosis for Healthcare Providers
  • Learn the Signs. Act Early.
    • Autism Case Training Videos: A Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics
• CDCStreamingHealth (You Tube)
  • The Autism & Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM)
  • Baby Steps: ”Learn the Signs. Act Early.“
  • What is Autism?

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) Social Media

Share CDC events and campaigns with your colleagues and others

• Widgets, Buttons, and E-Cards

Page maintained by: Scientific Education and Professional Development Program Office

Information regarding training products and resources featured in the Spotlight was provided by

• TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN), a free service of the Public Health Foundation
• National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)