About the Course
In this keynote address, Professor Green will cover the theory, ethics and practice of an integrated early intervention pathway for autism and neurodiversity. This will include a discussion of the neurodiversity movement and ethics of healthcare, concepts and evidence for the iBASIS and PACT models of early intervention, and how these can be combined into an integrated and evidenced based early care pathway for health services.
Objectives
Participants will list the features and effects of parent-mediated social communication interventions like iBASIS and PACT, and explain what mechanistic studies reveal about autistic development.
Participants will identify the core concepts of a transactional approach to neurodiversity and autism development and discuss the role of health services in neurodiverse development.
Participants will identify the health system characteristics best suited to an autism care pathway using examples of practical implementation in the UK and internationally in South Asia and Australia to propose specific changes or enhancements to existing health systems.
Professor Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Manchester and Hon Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. He studied medicine at Cambridge, Paediatrics in London and Psychiatry in Oxford, before establishing clinical and research groups in Manchester, UK. He has undertaken developmental science in both autism and early relationship development and the development and testing of early parent-mediated interventions for autistic development for both pre-school diagnosed children (PACT) and in the pre-diagnostic stage (iBASIS). He has built on this evidence to advocate an early developmental pathway approach to autistic care that is now being applied in the UK and internationally. The not-for-profit, IMPACT which he co-directs, has trained PACT in 30 countries and now also iBASIS.
Since 2018, he has undertaken increasing participatory work with the autistic community, including discussion on neurodiversity and the ethics of intervention (see Green 2023), a novel participatory project on autistic phenomenology (Murray et al 2023, Green and Shaughnessy 2023) and true co-design of a new anxiety intervention for young autistic children (Cullingham et al 2024).
Jonathan sat on the most recent UK NICE development group for autism care. He is a Senior Investigator in the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and UK Global Senior Leader in autism for the International Society of Autism Research (INSAR).
Speaker Disclosure: Professor Green received a speaking fee for this course.