Educating parents of young adults with autism on the transition to adult services

ASSIST – Advocating for Supports to Improve Service Transitions – is a program that trains parents of young adults with autism on services that are available in the community and empowers them to advocate for their child to help them successfully transition to adulthood.

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Researcher: Julie Lounds Taylor, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Interviewer: Janet Shouse, Program Coordinator, IDD Toolkit; Study Coordinator, Project ECHO Autism Adult Healthcare