Keynote Presentation: TEACCH School Transition to Employment and Post-Secondary Education
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TEACCH School Transition to Employment and Post-Secondary Education
Moderator: Lawrence Fung, Ph.D., Stanford
Laura Grofer Klinger, Ph.D., Executive Director, UNC TEACCH Autism Program & Schopler Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Laura Grofer Klinger is a clinical psychologist, the Schopler Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and the Executive Director of the UNC TEACCH Autism Program. She holds a secondary appointment in the UNC Department of Psychology. She earned her BA from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. As the Director of the UNC TEACCH Autism Program, she oversees TEACCH’s clinical services (seven regional centers, employment services program, and the Carolina Living and Learning Center, an integrated vocational and residential program for adults), international training program, and its community-based research program. Her research focuses on promoting positive adult outcomes through community-based services. She created the TEACCH School Transition to Employment and Post-Secondary Education (T-STEP) Program, a community-college based intervention for autistic 16–21-year-olds. She is currently the PI for three federally funded clinical comparative effectiveness trials examining the treatments for anxiety in autistic school-aged children, treatments for anxiety and depression in autistic adults, and treatments targeting the successful transition to adulthood for autistic adolescents. She is also researching autism in older adulthood, following a cohort of older autistic adults who were diagnosed as children.