Jill Locke, Ph.D., will discuss meaningful social outcomes for autistic youth in schools. Attendees will learn how to identify engagement states of autistic youth on the playground and understand the core foundational strategies in Remaking Recess, an evidence-based social engagement intervention for autistic youth.

This event is free, virtual and open to public. Registration is required. Please follow this link to register: https://go.unl.edu/tzo6

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Educational Psychology and CYFS.

For questions regarding the colloquium, please contact Sungeun Kang, Ph.D., at skang18@unl.edu.

Presenter bio: Jill Locke is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and a parent of an autistic child. To date, her research has focused on the presentation of social impairment for autistic youth in inclusive school settings; identification of best practices for autistic youth; and understanding successful implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices for autistic youth in public school settings. Locke has expertise in implementation science, user-centered design and working in collaboration with publicly funded school systems. Most recently, her research has focused on identifying and examining malleable individual and organizational characteristics that increase teachers’ and para-educators’ use of evidence-based practices to include and retain autistic children in general education settings. Her recent work has also included developing and testing implementation strategies to support evidence-based practice use in the K-12 system. Locke’s experiences highlight the importance of collaborating with public schools and the reality of working within the constraints of publicly funded systems.