Takeaways from ISHACON'19. 'Social Communication Interventions for Adults with Autism'
This year the 'Annual convention of Speech and Hearing professionals' was held on February 8th, 9th and 10th at NIMHANS Convention center Bengaluru. Experts from the field have shared the latest developments, current research findings, and contemporary intervention strategies. I must say it's a feast of knowledge. Couple of plenary sessions were very informative about the current trends and scope of practice in Speech Pathology. One among them was Skype session about 'The Social Communication Interventions for Adults with Autism in Post secondary Education and Employment settings presented by Dr. Shubha Kashinath, Associate professor and Interim Chair, Dept of Communicative Sciences & Disorders, CAL STATE university'. In the session she had stated that current statistics show that 1 in 59 children ...