Association for Behavior Analysis International

The path of care for autistic individuals and their families remains a critical facet of the work the ABA community is so fortunate to influence. In the context of family guidance, however, much of those well-intended efforts rely on the clinician’s interpretation of qualitative data afforded by the family in service of architecting plans of care that are sensitive to cultural and diversity variables. The current symposium affords several quantitatively oriented assessments to address said familial needs, in service of highly individualized, collaborative plan of care development. Further, we aim to highlight the ways and degree to which related service providers’ input may be integrated into a holistic familial approach. Offerings of the ways in which clinicians may integrate diversity- and cultural humility-based practices with the families with whom they work as well as the extent to which they build systemic, clinical approaches are discussed, as we believe this is a particularly impactful aspect of our clinical practice going forward.

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