UAB RAN Community Education Workshop: Sleep and Autism

WHEN

Wednesday, October 16th

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

WHERE

Children’s Behavioral Health – Patriot Park 200 Wildwood Pkwy Ste 130, Homewood, AL 35209

REGISTER HERE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDANCE :

https://uab.zoom.us/meeting/register/wEqHJOPuStqnXbx7JZrksA

*IF TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE ARE SOLD OUT, PLEASE EMAIL UABRAN@UAB.EDU TO REGISTER*

Sleep and Autism

Participants will be able to understand:

• Reasons why sleep challenges are more common in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Strategies to promote successful sleep for children with ASD
• How to create a plan to individualize these strategies for your child

About Our Presenters

Dr. Jennifer Sheehy-Knight

Dr. Sarah Bauman

Co-founders of Alabama Developmental and Behavioral Specialists

Dr. Jennifer Sheehy-Knight is a licensed psychologist who has served children and adolescents in Birmingham, Alabama and the surrounding areas for over 20 years providing therapy, assessment, and consultation. She treats a wide range of clinical conditions but specializes in neurodevelopmental disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), disruptive behaviors in young children, and anxiety disorders. Dr. Sheehy-Knight received her doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi and completed her internship in Clinical Child Psychology at the Children’s Hospital in Ohio (now Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Sheehy-Knight was a Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) postdoctoral fellow as part of the interdisciplinary training program at the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning (CDL), University of North Carolina, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Sheehy-Knight worked as a psychologist for more than a decade at Children’s of Alabama. During that time, she created and/or co-developed multiple programs to better serve vulnerable youth and neurodiverse individuals including specialty outpatient clinics, an outpatient support program to reduce stress related to hospital visits, hospital staff trainings, and parent training workshop series. Dr. Sheehy-Knight also was the creator and lead clinician of an intensive consultation program at Children’s of Alabama designed to assist inpatient children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disabilities or autism. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Psychology, she has enjoyed training multiple graduate students and continues to supervise and foster the next generation of clinicians. Furthermore, Dr. Sheehy-Knight proudly was part of the initial planning committee for the Region V Regional Autism Network (RAN) Community Education Workshops (CEW) and currently continues to present CEW workshops during the year. In 2021, Dr. Sheehy-Knight ventured into private practice co-founding Alabama Developmental and Behavioral Specialists (ADBS) with Dr. Bauman. The ADBS clinic specializes in providing diagnostic assessment and treatment for youth with a focus on neurodevelopmental, behavioral, and emotional issues.

Dr. Sarah Bauman is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides outpatient treatment and assessment for a wide range of clinical conditions in children and adolescents. One of her specializations is neurodevelopmental disabilities. She received her doctorate from the University of South Alabama and completed her internship at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Bauman went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology through Vanderbilt University Division of Developmental Medicine and the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) where she was a Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) trainee. Dr. Bauman worked for a number of years as a clinical psychologist at Children’s of Alabama. During her time at COA, Dr. Bauman provided outpatient therapy, training, and evaluation services to neurodiverse and neurotypical community youth and their families; developed programming and staff trainings to improve the success of hospital visits for those with autism; and conducted psychological testing with children and adolescents admitted to the inpatient psychiatry unit. Dr. Bauman started a new professional journey in 2022 and went into private practice with Dr. Jennifer Sheehy-Knight, founding Alabama Developmental and Behavioral Specialists (ADBS) clinic. There she provides outpatient therapy, psychological evaluation, consultation services, and supervises psychology trainees. To have a wider reach and benefit those locally who may not be involved in ADBS clinic, Dr. Bauman helped develop and regularly continues to participate in programming such as the Regional Autism Network Community Education Workshops.