The Thompson Center experienced another incredible success at it’s 13th annual Thompson Center Autism Conference, once again smashing the attendance record! This year, 568 autism professionals from around the country attended the conference to connect with and learn from the leading autism experts in the nation. This breaks last year’s previous record of 496 attendees!
As a part of this year’s conference, the Thompson Center hosted several pre-conference sessions to help advance important areas of autism training and education. These included the St. Louis Parent Conference, where parents learned from Thompson Center experts about how to best care for and raise children on the spectrum and the ECHO Autism Summit, where leaders of the ECHO Autism program gathered to discuss best practices and ways to expand moving forward. Also featured was an ADOS training session, where Thompson Center leaders helped train practitioners on how to best implement the gold-standard autism diagnostic test. Finally, the Thompson Foundation for Autism hosted an Ask the Experts panel, where several Thompson Center experts answered questions from the audience about autism, including treatment methods, education and current and future research in the area.
