Parent Groups

NFAR PARENT GROUP - MARCH

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
6:15 - 7:30 PM

** This Meeting is in PERSON **

Meeting will be held at the NFAR Office
9825 Businesspark Ave, San Diego, CA 92131

The group meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month, with a combination of Zoom and in-person meetings. It's an opportunity to learn from guest speakers, share resources, and enjoy connecting with other parents raising a child on the autism spectrum or related special needs. All parents welcome!

Schedule for Wed., Jan 15:

6:15 - 6:30 PM: Visit and eat pizza - complimentary

6:30 –7:30 PM: Guest Speaker presentation

Location: 9825 Businesspark Ave, San Diego, CA 92131

March Topic: The Latest in Autism Research

Social affective and communication symptoms are central to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet their severity differs across toddlers: Some toddlers with ASD display improving abilities across early ages and develop good social and language skills, while other children with autism have persistently low social, language and cognitive skills and require lifelong care.

Come learn what breakthrough discoveries are being made by Dr. Courchesne and his team that explain why there are these developmental differences, and how his team aims to identify targeted treatments for children with autism subtypes.

Guest Speaker: Eric Courchesne, Professor, Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Co-Director of the UCSD Autism Center of Excellence (ACE)

Eric Courchesne is one of the world's leading experts on the neurobiology of autism. He is the overall director and principle investigator of the UCSD Autism Center of Excellence, and is also the co-director of the UCSD Autism Center on early social development in autism.

Dr. Courchesne has introduced the concept of ASD Living Biology, a new approach for discovering fetal brain developmental origins and explanations of ASD in the individual child. His studies integrate clinical, behavioral, brain imaging, developmental, cellular, genetic, and genomic findings that lead to a better understanding of the prenatal origins of autism.

Dr. Courchesne is ranked in the top 10 autism researchers in the world among all 82,000 autism researchers by scholargps.com. He has published over 200 articles in major journals such as JAMA, Science, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, Molecular Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, Current Trends in Neuroscience, and the New England Journal of Medicine.