Webinar: Surviving and Thriving in the Real World-Building Practical Life Skills in Autistic Adolescents
Date Published: July 24, 2025
In this recorded webinar, Dr. Duncan reviews the research on targeting age-appropriate life skills (for example, personal hygiene, cooking, laundry, and managing money) in autistic adolescents and discusses essential treatment components of the Surviving and Thriving in the Real World intervention.
Daily living skills – which are the things that we do every day to take of ourselves – can be challenging for autistic adolescents to learn and master. However, these life skills are critical to making a successful transition to the adult world of work, college, independent living, and community participation.
Who is Amie Duncan?
Amie Duncan, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She has been working with children, adolescents, and young adults with autism for over 20 years. Dr. Duncan specializes in helping autistic adolescents develop the necessary skills to make a successful transition to the adult world in the areas of employment, college, independent living and community participation. Her main area of research focuses on developing and evaluating an intervention that targets daily living skills such as hygiene, cooking, laundry, and money management skills in autistic adolescents. She also has developed an intervention targeting executive functioning skills such as organization, planning, and prioritizing for adolescents with autism in both the school and clinic settings. She currently has funding through NIH and has previously had funding through the Department of Defense, NICHD, and the Department of Education.