June Breakfast of Champions: Adapting Practices to be More Friendly to Neurodiverse Patients

At our June Breakfast of Champions meeting, Susanne Campbell, RN, MS, PCMH CCE, moderated a session on Adapting Practices to be More Friendly to Neurodiverse Patients. Ariana DeAngelis, M. Ed., from The Autism Project spoke about approaching neurodiverse patients across the age-span. Francisco Cordero, Sc.M., from The University of Texas at Austin, discussed national and state models to support the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in the medical home model. In addition, our 49 attendees heard from Emily Feinberg, ScD, CPNP, from the Hassenfeld Institute and Amelia Monteiro, MD, from New Bedford Community Health about advancing Autism assessment and diagnosis in primary care. These presenters described their work in training community health workers (CHW’s) to implement structured behavioral observation as a second-level screening process for autism spectrum disorder.