Prof. Bryna Siegel University of California, San Francisco, USA

Dr. Bryna Siegel holds a PhD in Child Development and a MA in Education from Stanford University and is author of four books on diagnosing and treating autism spectrum disorders including The World of the Autistic Child (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), What About Me? Siblings of Developmentally Disabled Children (Plenum/Insight,... read more1994), Helping Children with Autism Learn (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004), Getting the Best for Your Child with Autism (Guilford, 2008), and the forthcoming Politics of Autism (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016). She is the developer of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test II (Psych Corp, 2002) as well as over 100 peer-reviewed chapters, papers and abstracts and has lectured and trained nationally and internationally. She retired as Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco in 2012 to found the Autism Center of Northern California to develop a model for life-span services for families living with autism.