UCLA Tarjan Center: Neural Changes in Autistic Youth Following the PEERS Social Skills Program
You are invited to the UCLA Tarjan Center’s Lecture: Neural Changes in Autistic Youth Following the PEERS Social Skills Program. Hosted in partnership with the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS), this series pairs expert presenters with community discussants who bring lived experience to each topic. Please see the information below and the flyer attached.
Speaker: Aarti Nair, PhD, ABPP-CN
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Learn the brain’s social networks involved in autism
- Understand the difference between implicit and explicit learning and how they change the brain.
- Describe a social skills program for autistic youth.
- Explain how the PEERS social skills program can change the brain.
For recorded lectures and additional information, please visit UCLA Tarjan’s lecture series webpage.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at tarjancenter@mednet.ucla.edu.
Live interpretation will be available in ASL, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Tagalog. Zoom’s auto-captioning will also be available in 35 languages.