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Wendy Stone, Ph.D., is a professor of pediatrics and psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University, an investigator at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, and Director of the Marino Autism Research Institute (MARI). She founded and directs the Vanderbilt Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), where she has continuing frontline clinical experience with a broad variety of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families. Her primary research interests are in early identification and early intervention for children with ASD. Dr. Stone has authored many papers on the early identification, assessment, and follow-up of young children with autism, and is the author of a book for parents entitled, Does My Child Have Autism? She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Autism Research.
Opal Ousley, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory School of Medicine and research scientist at the Emory Autism Center. Dr. Ousley’s primary research focuses on understanding neurocognitive, social and adaptive behavioral development of children and young adults with autism spectrum disorders and early detection of autism in infants and toddlers. As a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, she helped develop the Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers and Young Children (STAT).