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Developing Freely Accessible Educational Videos to Enhance Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability

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The development of the training videos described in this article was funded by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Abramson Grant (PI: Dr. Vasa).

Current and former members of the AACAP Autism and Intellectual Disability Committee include M. Frampton Gwynette, MD, Kathleen A. Koth, DO, Natasha Marrus, MD, PhD, Jessica A. Hellings, MBBCh, MMed Psych (SA), DFAPA, W. David Lohr, MD, Rebecca A. Muhle, MD, PhD, and Roma A. Vasa, MD.

Author ContributionsConceptualization: Gwynette, Koth, Marrus, Hellings, Lohr, Muhle, VasaData curation: Gwynette, Koth, Marrus, Hellings, Muhle, VasaFormal analysis: Gwynette, Koth, Marrus, Hellings, Muhle, VasaFunding acquisition: VasaInvestigation: Marrus, Hellings, MuhleMethodology: Koth, Marrus, Hellings, Muhle, VasaProject administration: Gwynette, Koth, Lohr, VasaSupervision: Gwynette, Koth, VasaWriting – original draft: Gwynette, Koth, Marrus, Hellings, Lohr, Muhle, VasaWriting – review and editing: Gwynette, Koth, Marrus, Hellings, Lohr, Muhle, Vasa

The AACAP Autism and Intellectual Disability Training Workgroup would like to thank Alex Sittig, Web Manager at AACAP, for his dedication and hard work in making the training videos available on https://www.aacap.org/. The authors also wish to thank Meera Rothman, of Yale University, and Katharine A. Stratigos, MD, and Kelly McGuire, MD, of Columbia University, for their efforts in developing the video training modules.

Disclosure: Dr. Gwynette has received AACAP speaker fees. Dr. Koth has received AACAP speaker fees. Dr. Marrus has received AACAP speaker fees and funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Dr. Muhle has received funding from NIMH and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. Dr. Vasa has received funding from the AACAP Abramson Grant, AACAP speaker fees, Autism Speaks, the Organization for Autism Research, and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Drs. Hellings and Lohr have reported no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

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