Autism Diagnostic Clinic

You will increase your familiarity with the standardized diagnostic evaluation process for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by observing standardized clinical assessments of children in regard to social functioning, communication and other domains.

You’ll participate in a multidisciplinary evaluation process to establish whether a child meets clinical criteria for being on the autism spectrum.

Child and adolescent psychiatrists are often the primary physicians entrusted with caring for children on the spectrum.

Combined with clinical experiences in the Developmental Disabilities Clinic, this rotation will improve your ability to recognize, assess and treat ASD.

Common diagnoses or problems you can expect to encounter during this rotation include:

• ASD
• social pragmatic communication disorder
  
• other communication disorders
• learning disorders
• intellectual disabilities
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• mood and anxiety disorders

Residents schedule two to four patients during this clinic.

• Year 2 rotation
  
• Scheduled for two or more mornings
  

Autism Center Diagnostic Clinic
Oishei Children's Hospital
818 Ellicott Street
Buffalo, NY 14203

• one child and adolescent licensed clinical psychologist with extensive clinical and research experience in the ASD field — all cases receive direct supervision

• children and adolescents from a broad socioceonomic spectrum from across Western New York