Are Kids Getting PTSD in School: Understanding the School Experience of Autistic Children

This talk will explore critical questions about the school experience of most autistic children, and the long term impact of these experiences. The way schools generally deal with autistic children involves many factors: what ideas do most schools bring to understanding autistic children? What are their goals for autistic children? What about children's experiences do schools need to understand, and how can they be more effective?
Marcia Eckerd, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in practice for over 30 years. She serves on the CT ASD Advisory Council, serves on the Clinical Advisory Group of the Asperger’s Autism Network (AANE.org) and is on the Board of Directors of NeuroClastic.org, an autistic nonprofit. She is the past Director of Clinical Programs for the New Learning Therapy Center, helped found the Pediatric Development and Therapy Center (a Yale-Norwalk Hospital collaboration) and is on the community medical staff at Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT.
As a prolific writer and lecturer, Marcia has written 3 professional journal articles on autism for the Journal of Health Services Psychology (JHSP as well as numerous articles in Autism Spectrum News, Autism Parenting Magazine, and for many other autism sites. Her blog on Psych Central “Divergent Thinkers”(2016- 2020) and her current blog on Psychology Today “Everyday Neurodiversity” have been reposted internationally; her most recent blog on autistic children, schools and PTSD has had over 210,800 readers. She has presented many workshops, webinars, and podcasts on autism; recent presentations include the “Learning and the Brain” conference co-sponsored by Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and Tufts in 2021 and 2022, an international conference, “Special Kids International Summit” co-sponsored by UNESCO in 2020, a webinar for the US Autism Association in 2021 and the Autism Parenting Magazine Autism Summit in 2022.
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