Autism Assessment Fundamentals and Co-Occurring Conditions 27th and 28th March 2025 (online): Victorian AMHS and Forensicare, Victorian headspace, ACHHO/ACHHS and Take Two clinicians
This is a two-day workshop delivered online via Zoom
Please read the flyer, workshop description and cancellation policy to the left (select the image to view) before registration.
This is the subsidised cost registration page for Victorian AMHS clinicians (including Forensicare),Victorian headspace, ACHHO/ACHHS and Take Two clinicians only. Please note you cannot reserve a place in this workshop by purchasing a ticket you are not eligible for. If you purchase a subsidised place and are not eligible, your refund may be subject to an administration fee.
Who is the training for?
Mental health clinicians working with children and adolescents. E.g. Psychologists, psychiatrists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers, mental health nurses, paediatricians, advanced trainees in child & adolescent psychiatry, CYMHS/CAMHS/ICYMHS clinicians, headspace clinicians and paediatric fellows.
For clinicians working with adults, please see our Adult Autism training.
Who provides the training?
Multidisciplinary specialist autism and neurodevelopmental assessment teams from a range of Victorian Infant, Child & Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS) & lived and living perspectives.
What does the training include?
This online training aims to provide a comprehensive grounding in the complexities of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessment for children and adolescents. Following the training you should be able to identify autism in the clients you see and refer appropriately for further assessment.
This two-day workshop includes:
· Exploration of integrating clinical autism assessment with neuroaffirming practice principles
· Videos of two assessments: Preschool/School-Aged and Adolescent
· How to take a neurodevelopmental history
· Differential diagnosis and co-occurring mental health conditions
· Understanding language and social communication differences
· Understanding differences in sensory processing
· Formulation of complex cases
· Providing neuroaffirming assessment feedback to families
· Guidelines for report writing.
This workshop is a prerequisite to enrolling in the ADOS-2 and ADI-R workshops offered at Mindful.
Pre-reading materials will be emailed 1-2 weeks before the workshop. This information will be assumed knowledge for the training.
Click here to download the course flyer
Mindful's workshops are funded by the Victorian Health Department. Some workshop places are made available for private practice and interstate clinicians, but many of our courses are specifically designed to skill-up particular cohorts of the Victorian mental health workforce. Our training is only available to overseas based clinicians on a case-by-case basis. If you practice outside of Australia please email our team at mindful-asd@unimelb.edu.au to confirm your eligibility.
Cancellation and No Show Policy:
Registered participants who are unable to attend and notify us of this in writing prior to fourteen days before the workshop may either:
(1) cancel their registration and receive a refund of their payment minus administration fee of 20% or $40, whichever is greater;
(2) transfer their registration once to another eligible participant within the same workplace (no fee);
(3) in some circumstances may be able to transfer their registration once to an equivalent-cost ASD workshop in the same calendar year, if space is available.
Cancellations with less than 14 days' notice are not refundable. If there is someone else in your workplace that you wish to transfer your registration to, this may be permitted. In exceptional circumstances, please contact us.