Just got an email about this from iTunes. Looks like a cool undergraduate class through itunes U, free downloads. I'll be downloading it tonight.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/a...rs/id495056283

Course Description
The Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders is the United States' first undergraduate course of its kind. The class consists of a weekly seminar on diagnosis and assessment, etiology and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with autism and related disorders of socialization.
The lectures:
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Overview of Autism, Dr. Fred Volkmar
Prof. Fred Volkmar introduces the Yale College Autism Seminar and provides a general overview of autism and related disorders and what the course will cover.
31:57
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Overview of Autism
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Overview of Autism, Dr. Ami Klin
In this class session, Dr. Ami Klin gives the second part of the lecture, Overview of Autism.
48:04
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Overview of Autism
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Treatments for Autism: Overview of Model Programs, Dr. Fred Volkmar
Prof. Fred Volkmar covers an overview of model programs for the treatment of autism.
41:49
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Treatments for Autism
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Autism Assessment, Dr. Katherine Tsatsanis
The central theme of this presentation is diagnosis and assessment of autism spectrum disorders. Diagnosis is a clinical endeavor, made by experienced clinicians with knowledge of the features of ASDs.
47:56
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Autism Assessment
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Autism in Infants and Young Children, Dr. Kasia Chawarska
In this section, Dr. Kasia Chawarska covers the social disorders in infants and young children.
1:14:32
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Autism in Infants and Young Children
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Social Brain in Autism, Dr. Ami Klin
This lecture focuses on the emergence of highly conserved and early emerging mechanisms of socialization and their disruption in infants and toddlers with autism spectrum disorders.
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Social Brain
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Electrophysiological Studies of Social Perception, Dr. James McPartland
In this lecture, Dr. James McPartland reviews face perception in social development and its relevance to understanding social perception in autism.
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Electrophysiological Studies of Social Perception
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Neuroimaging, Dr. Kevin Pelphrey
In this lecture, Dr. Kevin Pelphrey discusses recent research, using functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the brain mechanisms involved in the typical and atypical development of social perception ...
1:09:28
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Neuroimaging
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Behavioral Treatments, Dr. Michael Powers
This lecture introduces the foundations of behavioral assessment and treatment of significant challenging behavior in persons with autism.
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Behavioral Treatments
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Parental Perspectives and Supporting Families, Alison Singer
This presentation is from the point of view of the parent of a child with autism.
53:48
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Parental Perspectives and Supporting Families
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Communication in Autism, Dr. Rhea Paul
Communication is a core deficit in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In this one-hour lecture, terms related to communication are defined and typical communication development is reviewed.
1:50:58
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Communication in Autism
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Genetics of Autism, Dr. Matthew State
Dr. Matthew State covers the challenges of gene discovery in ideopathic Autism, rare versus common genetic variation, and shares some recent findings and a nod to the future of Autism genetics.
1:14:12
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Genetics of Autism
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Psychopharmacology, Dr. Andrés Martin
Psychotropic medications can be an important part of the treatment of children and adolescents with autism-spectrum disorders.
52:15
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Psychopharmacology
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The Legal Rights of Children with Autism and Related Disorders
How does the law become involved in what happens (or should happen) in school, at home, and eventually in adult life after a child is diagnosed with autism or a related disorder?
1:16:34
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Changing Face of Autism: Adolescents & Adults
Dr. Fred Volkmar, director of the Yale Child Study Center, discusses what we have learned about autism, and how we are turning our research into practice for adolescents and young adults on the spectrum
56:51
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