Clinical Strategies for Including Severely Affected Individuals in Neuroscience Studies

SIG Leaders: Emily S. Kuschner, Christine Wu Nordahl, Mark D. Shen SIG Co-Leader: Kevin G. Stephenson Many severely affected children are excluded from neuroscience studies due to demands of data collection. This limits our understanding of brain development in ASD, since many studies only include “high functioning” children. The objective of this SIG is to improve and disseminate methods to maximize successful, high quality data collection from individuals across the spectrum.