1-Day: Communicating with Victims with Autism

The Communicating with Victims with Autism One-Day training is designed for individuals working on multi-disciplinary teams (MDT’s) and in other service organizations seeking to gain additional information about the risk factors, realities and strategies for working with victims with Autism Spectrum Disorder. While the training is not specifically intended for forensic interviewers, it is based in forensic interviewing best practices with considerations and adaptations to account for individual disability, language capacity, and cultural background. Participants will learn about biases and assumptions related to investigating cases involving victims or witnesses with Autism, abuse dynamics, pre-interview considerations, question types, and other information on eliciting reliable information from individuals with Autism.