ADOS-2 Clinical Training
This 3 day training is scheduled for May 7-9, 2025 and December 3-5, 2025. This training course offers detailed training for people who plan to use the ADOS-2. For those who are new to the ADOS this can serve as an introductory training and for those with more experience a refresher course. The goals of this workshop are to provide detailed instruction in administration and and practice with coding, and information on appropriate use and interpretation in research. Detailed discussions on scoring of the ADOS-2 follow each practice administration. Trainees will be provided with resources to assist them in their administration and ongoing practice. This workshop is designed for those with foundational understanding of child development as well as experience working with ASD individuals such as educators, clinicians, and researchers with prior background in autism spectrum disorder and formal testing, such as speech-language pathologists, psychometrist, psychologists, special education ASD specialists, and occupational therapists.
About the Presenter:
Stormi Pulver White, PsyD, joined Marcus Autism Center in 2018. She is a Program Manager for the assessment and diagnosis team. Additionally, Dr. White holds is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Autism and Related Disorders at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. White’s clinical and research interests include early identification and intervention for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as well as clinical characterization of rare variant disorders.
Dr. White completed her bachelor’s in psychology at Syracuse University and her master’s in school psychology at St. John’s University. She then spent two years working as a research assistant at the University of Rochester on their Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment (STAART) grant before pursuing her doctorate in school psychology from University at Albany, State University of New York. Dr. White completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), focusing on early identification of autism. Additionally, Dr. White completed a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) fellowship while at Vanderbilt.
Before joining Marcus Autism Center, Dr. White was an Assistant Professor at University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW), where she held administrative titles of head of psychology and co-clinical director in the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities (CADD). She also served as an affiliate faculty member in the clinical psychology doctoral program at UTSW, where she taught courses in developmental psychology and developmental disabilities, and supervised practicum and internship students during their rotations. In addition to her clinical and administrative duties, Dr. White collaborated on several studies investigating motor and sensory abnormalities in children with autism and their families, as well as individuals with fragile X syndrome. Additionally, she was lead clinician on studies investigating the natural history and biomarker development in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome.
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