2020
NEW – online course – Foundations in Autism for Mental Health Professionals – registrations to open in late March/early April 2020. Click here to express interest
(Cancelled due to Covid-19) (SOLD OUT!) Monday 30th March: Foundations in Autism for Mental Health Professionals – a 1-day workshop – registrations are now open :
https://westernsydney.edu.au/westernx/eep/autism_and_mental_health_trainingWednesday 22nd March: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe is presenting her Foundations in Autism for Mental Health Professionals at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane.
2019
- Friday 27th September: “Foundations in Autism for Adolescent and Adult Mental Health Professional – a 1 day workshop” – registrations are now open (SOLD OUT)!
- June: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe and Anita Gardner are presenting a 90-minute workshop “Using Video Modelling in Autism” at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Singapore
- April: Westmead Feelings Program awarded for contribution to Autism community
The Westmead Feelings Program team: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe, Anita Gardner, Dr Michelle Wong and Associate Professor David Dossetor.The Westmead Feelings Program, a pair of research-driven intervention programs for school-age children with autism, has won the Advancement Award in the Autism Spectrum Australia’s (Aspect) 2019 Recognition Awards.
2018
- 15th-16th November: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe will be presenting at the 2018 School Counsellors & Psychologists (SCAP) Conference in Melbourne
- 27th -30th September: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe and collaborators from the Children’s Hospital at Westmead will be presenting at the 2018 Australian Psychological Society Congress, Sydney
- 3rd September: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe will be providing an evening talk for the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society, Sydney.
- 8th-10th July: “Teacher-delivery of the Westmead Feelings Program: Emotion-based learning for children with Autism in primary schools” will be presented at the 2018 AASE National Conference, Cairns, Queensland (presentation by Dr Michelle Wong)
2017
- 4th November: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe is presenting a 1-day workshop for the APS Clinical College (New England, NorthWest Branch): “Teaching social-emotional skills to children & adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability”, Armidale.
- 25th October: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe is presenting at the Health Research Week “Collaborating for Better Health in Western Sydney” Western Sydney University, Campbelltown Campus.
- 5th October: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe is presenting an invited book talk on the Westmead Feelings Progran 1 for HIKMA Research at the University of Sydney
- Dr Belinda Ratcliffe is the lead author of “The Westmead Feelings Program 1: Emotion-Based Learning for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Mild Intellectual Disability” WFP1 will be launched at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Sydney.
- 7-9th September 2017: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe will be attending the 5th Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Sydney. Dr Ratcliffe is an author on 3 papers which have been submitted for oral presentations.
- 20-21st April: Dr Belinda Ratcliffe and Dr Michelle Wong will be providing faciliator training for health, education and disability professionals in: EBSST for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Mild Intellectual Disability at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
2016
- Belinda Ratcliffe writes about her PHD research on children with Autism Spectrum Disorder- featured as a Guest Blogger for the NSWCID
- 27-28th October: Belinda Ratcliffe and Dr Michelle Wong will be providing faciliator training for health, education and disability professionals in: EBSST for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Mild Intellectual Disability at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
- Belinda Ratcliffe has completed her PHD in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Clinical Psychology at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney and is due to graduate in December 2016.
- Belinda Ratcliffe is a an Board Approved Supervisor in Clinical Psychology
- Belinda Ratcliffe has been awarded a prestious early career researcher MENCAP Scholarship to provide an oral presentation “Online Training: Dissemination of an Evidence-based Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability Across Australia” at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Debelopmental Disabilities Conference, August 2016.
- Dr Michelle Wong and Belinda Ratcliffe have had an article published on ‘Social Skills For Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder’: Raising Children Network
- 19-20th May: Belinda Ratcliffe and Tom Butterworth will be providing faciliator training for health, education and disability professioanls at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in: ‘Emotion-based Social Skills Training for Children with High Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Disorder’
2015
- Belinda Ratcliffe and colleagues will be presenting their research on Emotion Based Social Skills Training for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Brisbane, September 2015
- Belinda Ratcliffe will be presenting a 3-hour workshop on Sunday 28th June 2015 in South Australia at the APS College of Clinical Psychologist Conference on Developing Emotional Competence in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Belinda Ratcliffe and Dr Michelle Wong will be providing the following 2-day workshop: Emotion-Based Social Skills Training Factilitator Training for Autism and Mild Intellectual Disability at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead on 2nd-3rd July 2015:
2014
- Belinda Ratcliffe will be presenting her research on Emotion Based Social Skills Training for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Mild Intellectual Disability at the upcoming International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID) – Europe Regional Congress in Vienna, July 2014.
- Belinda Ratcliffe will be presenting on social-emotional skills building in Children with Austism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability at the annual Psychologists in Developmental Disability conference.
