The Kasari Lab is actively involved in the community. We participate in autism events, locally, nationally, and internationally, and have speaking events throughout the year. By having an active presence in the community, we are learning more about the specific challenges faced in the school, home, and community settings and creating interventions that address these needs. Check out our news, events, gallery, and videos for more.

View fullsize JASPER can be combined with other interventions and incorporated into diverse environments like inclusion and special education classrooms and everyday activities in the home🏡🛝🚌🎈❤️
View fullsize JASPER was created to be accessible for those in a community setting. Whether you are a clinician, parent, or educator, you may already have everything you need. If toys are limited or we don't have exactly what we need, we love to get creative. Here
View fullsize JASPER is most commonly delivered one-on-one with an interventionist and a child with ASD. It has been successfully implemented by caregivers, paraprofessionals, teachers, and other community members. Recent studies have explored using JASPER strateg
View fullsize JASPER is designed for children 12 months old through early childhood, and for older children who have minimal spoken language. JASPER may also be effective for children with ASD and other developmental disorders who experience challenges in engageme
View fullsize Quiz Time💭🧐💬🧠Put your knowledge to the test!😉 Let us know how you did🧡💚🎈 ANSWERS Slide 1: Response. This is a response, because the child is answering the adult’s prompt.  Slide 2 and 3: Initiation. The child is initiating new
View fullsize How do we encourage a child to initiate without prompting or directing? The answer is to provide many meaningful opportunities for the child to share during the interaction! Make sure the environment is set up to support the child’s engagement.
View fullsize Children with ASD are often capable responders. They have an easier time answering questions and responding to prompts, but they often need more support to become confident initiators. In JASPER, we want children to be fluent in both of these roles,
View fullsize In JASPER, we help children strengthen their skills of initiating with others. Children with ASD have a harder time initiating compared to responding (Mundy et al., 1986), so this is an important skill to focus on as they communicate, play, and engag
View fullsize There is a complementary relationship among the JASPER domains. Engagement and regulation are crucial for learning play and communication, and the strategies that support play and social communication in turn support the child’s regulation and
View fullsize Regulation is an important domain in JASPER, because play, communication, and engagement are only possible if a child is regulated and ready to learn. While dysregulation is common among young children, we know that children with autism have greater
View fullsize In JASPER, our goal is to help children develop a full toolbox of social communication skills. We teach children skills to share their own ideas and comments (joint attention) and to get their needs met (requesting). We also place special f
View fullsize Play looks fun and easy–we think of it as something that all kids do naturally for their own enjoyment. Yet, it is also how children learn important communication skills, social skills, problem-solving skills, flexibility, imagination, and more
View fullsize Engagement is really important for language development! Children have an easier time learning to communicate when they are jointly engaged (attending both to objects and people at the same time). When children are jointly engaged, they are better ab
View fullsize JASPER focuses on four domains: Joint Attention (the JA in JASPER), simple to symbolic play (SP), engagement (E), and regulation (R). All of these domains are challenges for children with ASD, closely linked to communication, and predictive of later
The Autism Intervention Research Network on Behavioral Health (AIR-B) is proud to present their Spring 2023 newsletter! 📰🚨🎉 check out: https://www.airbnetwork.org/ for more information!
Mark your calendars for this years CART Symposium📆❗️
Mark your calendars🗓️‼️ lThis years AIRB conference dates are below. Don’t forget to register using the links. For more information check https://www.airbnetwork.org/. See you on Zoom! 📍March 10th: Korean Conference 🖇️tinyurl.com/mar10kor 📍March 17th: Spanish Conference 🖇️tinyurl.com/mar17spa 📍March 24th: English Conference 🖇️tinyurl.com/mar24eng
The AIR-B Networks’s December 2022 Newsletter! Check out https://www.airbnetwork.org/ for more AIR-B related updates!📰🗞️

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Congratulations to Jonathan Panganiban, Ph.D., who was specifically included as part of the section on interventions in the 2022 IACC Summary of Advances in Autism Research. An easy-read version of the publication is also available.

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Autism Intervention Research Network on Behavioral Health
JASPER Introduction
JASPER - Making Meaningful Moments
The Next Generation of Autism Intervention Science - Connie Kasari, PhD
[CART] A’s to ZZZZ’s of Sleep and Insomnia in Autism Spectrum Disorder
[CART] How Can We Deliver Change For and With Autistic People in the Next Years
PACE | Connie Kasari on Transitions Into and Out of Special Education in California
17th Goldstick Family Lecture in the Study of Communication Disorders
Podcast: Are our Schools Doing Enough to Support Autistic Students