Video | April 23, 2024Overview of Catalight Practice Guidelines Chief Clinical Officer Doreen Samelson, Ed.D., MSCP, introduces our Practice Guidelines, detailing how the guidelines outline suggest treatment schedules and performance metrics for behavioral interventions aimed at Autism Spectrum Disorder and related developmental disabilities. Catalight’s Practice Guidelines offer recommendations on treatment hours and outcome measures for behavioral interventions. These guidelines are intended as a resource … Watch video
Press release | April 23, 2024Catalight Practice Guidelines Reflect a Contemporary Research View of the Dosage Effect and Outcome Measures in Autism Care Catalight, one of the largest behavioral health networks in the United States working to support individuals with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), recently unveiled a set of guidelines for behavioral analysts, psychologists and clinicians working with community-based applied behavioral interventions. The Catalight Practice Guidelines challenge the common belief of a ‘dosage effect’ by … Read press release
Article | April 18, 2024Photo Gallery: Catalight Makes Debut at Becker’s Conference Catalight exhibited for the first time at the prestigious Becker’s Healthcare Conference in Chicago on April 8 and 9. The annual Spring Payer Issues Roundtable served as a platform for Catalight’s leaders to delve into critical conversations with health insurance payers – focusing on the challenges within the behavioral health space and the implementation of … Read article
Video | March 27, 2024What is Catalight’s ABA Parent-Mediated Model? Chief Clinical Officer Doreen Samelson Ed.D., MSCP, clarifies Catalight’s approach to Parent mediated ABA care. Watch video
Press release | March 4, 2024Catalight Unveils Wellbeing Scale to Assess and Enhance the Lives of Families Living with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities and Autism Proven Accurate by Data Analysis in Recent Study, Scale Will Be Made Available to Outside Agencies Read press release
Article | February 29, 2024What is Wellbeing? And Why Has it Become Catalight’s Most Important Measurement Tool? Are you happy? It’s a question in which simplicity often outweighs importance. For those who choose to give it deep thought, it can seem impossible to answer. Yet, each day, we pass an acquaintance who asks, “how are you?” or a video call that starts with “how’s everyone doing?” and our typical response tends to … Read article
In the news | September 29, 2023‘We’ve Got To Do More’: Providers Seek To Close Gap In Mental Health Care For Neurodiverse People People with autism are four times as likely to experience depression in their life than typically-developing peers. Despite the increased risk, people with autism or other neurodiversities often face significant obstacles when seeking mental health care. Barriers like clinicians’ lack of specialty training, staffing shortages and pitfalls with payers often prevent neurodiverse people from accessing … Read News
Article | July 11, 2023Beyond Goal Attainment Historically, measuring outcomes in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) focused specific behaviors. More than a dozen scales and measures exist to gauge these outward behaviors: examples include the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC), the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) and the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) rating scale. Almost none of these, however, provide a good tool for assessing … Read article
Article | May 23, 2023Catalight on the World Stage For the first time since 2019, the world’s premier autism research conference was back in person, this year in Stockholm, and I attended with my colleagues Dr. Linsey Sneed and our CEO Susan Armiger. We were reminded of how important it is – both for us as researchers and clinicians and for Catalight as a … Read article
Article | May 3, 2023Catalight Selected to Deliver Two Presentations at International Society for Autism Research Discover groundbreaking research on autism at INSAR 2023 by Catalight. Learn about tailored treatment approaches and measuring wellbeing for autistic individuals and families. Read article
