Lunch and Learn Schedule 2025
Speechless, but not thoughtless:
The Inner Life of Autistic Persons
Friday, May 16th, 2025
Presenter: Alison Fellowes Comly, MA, LICSW
Time: 12:00 p.m.— 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Location: Silver Spring Library, Location: Silver Spring Library, 900 Wayne Avenue (3rd Floor). Public parking across Wayne Avenue
Cost: No cost for NWSP members; $25 for non-members.
No CEs Offered
Program Description:
The focus of this presentation is to share clinical interventions with adolescents and adults with nonspeaking autism. Topics include the characteristics of nonspeaking autism, regulation of affect in psychotherapy, and communicating with clients who use a keyboard to communicate. Case material and video recordings will be shared to illustrate the clinical issues involved in working with non-speaking clients.
Presenter Bio:
Allison Fellowes Comly MA, LICSW is in private practice in Washington DC and sees children, adolescents, families, and adults. After completing her social work education at the Unversity of Chicago, she continued her training as a Fellow at Yale University’s Child Study Center where she focused on evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents from both psychodynamic and developmental perspectives. At Yale, she also was awarded a fellowship at the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy where she researched universal Pre-K programs. Coming to the DC area, she worked with children and families at the Reginald Lourie Center and became an Emerging Leader’s Fellow at the Children’s Defense Fund. Her interest in working with autism began at Yale and has continued as part of her practice for over the past 20 years.
Registration closes on May 15th, 2025.
