[Dec-advocacy] Now on YouTube: Understanding Autism in the Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders

[Diana J. LaRocco]

Subject: Now on YouTube: Understanding Autism in the Yale Seminar on
Autism and Related Disorders

We are thrilled to announce that the Yale undergraduate Autism Seminar
taught here at the Child Study Center  is now available online!

Understanding Autism in the Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders:

The Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders is the United States'
first undergraduate course devoted to understanding autism and
developmental disorders. The seminar consists of a series of lectures
designed to provide an overview of various topics related to autism
and other socialization disorders. For Yale undergraduates, the class
consists of a weekly seminar on diagnosis and assessment, etiology and
treatment of children, adolescents and adults with autism and related
disorders of socialization. This course has been available to Yale
undergraduates for over 25 years, but thanks to generous donations
made by the Associates of the Yale Child Study Center, we have
recorded the entire course in high definition audio and video. We are
thrilled to introduce our new website, now available at

http://autism.yale.edu

The Yale Child Study Center is now able to bring quality research and
clinical programs to families and children living with Autism all
around the world. We believe that making this content available to the
public for free will further establish the Yale Child Study Center as
an extraordinary resource of credible information on Autism and
related disorders of socialization. With this new resource, we have
realized our goal of making all of the lecture content and supporting
materials available online for free to anyone who desires to learn
about Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Video of each lecture was captured in high-definition format to ensure
the most elegant presentation possible on the Internet and future
distribution outlets. We have taken advantage of the University's
partnership with Google/ YouTube to host and stream the video for the
site. Through this partnership, we have provided high-quality
streaming video, free and reliable video hosting, direct connection to
the large YouTube audience, robust metrics for each video and the
ability for engaged users to "embed" our videos in their websites thus
creating a secondary distribution network for our content. One of the
features available through Google/YouTube's technology that we are
most excited about is the ability to provide a version of each video
with English-language closed captioning turned on. This technology
enables us to immediately translate each video into 41 languages.

To view the lectures on YouTube, please visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBR5NUMN7_0

Best,
Emily

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Emily E. H. Deegan
Office of the Chair
Yale Child Study Center
Yale University School of Medicine
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