Bryna Siegel

Dr. Bryna Siegel is a developmental psychologist, and adjunct professor in psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and director of its’ Autism Clinic.  She has just published Getting the Best for Your Child with Autism (Guilford Press, 2008).  She earlier wrote Helping Children with Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals, Oxford University Press, 2003 which describes an integrated ‘developmental behaviorism’ as a foundation for designing treatment of autism-specific difficulties in perception, processing and retrieval of information; and is also author of The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), a parent ‘classic’ for first learning about autism.  She is the co-author of What About Me? Siblings of Developmentally Disabled Children (Plenum Press, 1994).  She is the developer of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test (PDDST-II) for early identification of autism (Psych Corp,/ Harcourt Assessment, 2004), and co-author of theoretical and review chapters on autism treatment and research, as well as over 100 peer-reviewed research articles and abstracts.  Her newest research project, JumpStart Learning-to-Learn is a model for helping children with autism ‘learn-to-learn’, and for their parents to learn to use and evaluate integrated wrap-around home and school services as well as help their children themselves. Dr. Siegel lectures frequently to parents and professionals in the US and abroad on treatments for autism.