Recent Presentation Handouts

The following presentations were made by FIRST WORDS Project staff at national conventions. You can download a PDF version of each handout by clicking below. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available from Adobe.

2008 Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Developmental Approaches to Intervention for Young Children with Autism SpectrumDisorders: What is the Research Evidence?
Amy M. Wetherby

2005 International Meeting for Autism Research

Relationship Among Early Red Flags for Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year of Life and Later Symptoms.
Nola Watt, Amy Wetherby, and Juliann Woods
Department of Communication Disorders, Florida State University

Social Communication Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year of Life
Amy Wetherby, Stacy Shumway, Nola Watt, and Lindee Morgan

2005 SRCD Biennial Meeting

FIRST WORDS Project: Prelinguistic Predictors of Specific Language Impairment; Lindee Morgan, Amy Wetherby, & Lori Allen

2005 OSEP Early Childhood Conference

Red Flags of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year of Life: From Early Identification to Early Intervent
Amy M. Wetherby & Juliann Woods

2004 Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

FIRST WORDS Project: Prelinguistic Predictors of SLI & ASD
Amy M. Wetherby, Lindee Morgan, Nola Watt, Stacy Shumway, & Juliann Woods

International Meeting for Autism Research 2004

Red Flags of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year
Amy M. Wetherby and Juliann Woods

Changes in Red Flags of Autism Spectrum Disorders from the Second Year to the Third Year of Life
Stacy Shumway, Amy Wetherby, Juliann Woods and Nola Watt

2003 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development

Early Indicators of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year of Life
Amy M. Wetherby and Juliann Woods

FIRST WORDS Project: Improving Early Identification of Young Children At-risk for Language and Reading Difficulties
Amy M. Wetherby, Christopher Lonigan, Tricia Curran, Gina Easterly, Lisa Scott Trautman, & Robyn Ziolkowski

National Association for the Education of Young Children 2002 Early Childhood Institute

FIRST WORDS Project: Improving Early Identification of Young Children At-risk for Language and Reading Difficulties
Amy M. Wetherby, Christopher Lonigan, Gina Easterly, & Laura Stannard

Language, literacy, and reading in the early years: Do they make a difference?
Amy M. Wetherby (presented with Naomi Karp)

2001 Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

The Earliest Indicators of Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Early Identification to Early Intervention.
Amy Wetherby & Juliann Woods

FIRST WORDS Project: Improving Early Identification of Communication Disorders.
Amy Wetherby, Julie Cleary, & Lori Allen

2000 Annual International Early Childhood Conference
of the Council for Exceptional on Children, Division of Early Childhood

Improving Early Identification of Communication Disorders
Amy Wetherby, Julie Cleary, Lori Allen & Howard Goldstein

The Earliest Indicators Of Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Identification To Early Intervention
Juliann Woods, Ph.D. & Amy M. Wetherby, Ph.D.

Parents' Interaction Style & Young Children's Communication & Symbolic Profile
By Julie E. Cleary, Amy M. Wetherby, & Howard Goldstein

OSEP and NECTAS National Meeting 2000

Early Identification of Young Children At Risk for Communication and Language Disorders
Amy M. Wetherby, Ph.D

 

The FIRST WORDS® Project has received support for research from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs and Institute of Education Sciences; the National Institutes of Health, Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Jacksonville, Florida; the Phillips Endowment; Todd and Annie Trimmer; and Delta Airlines.