webinar
Evidence-Based Strategies For Interviewing People with autism
- People with autism are over-represented in the criminal justice system
- Understand why existing interview techniques do not work well for gathering information from people with autism
- 1 hour on-demand webinar
- $60 AUS instant access
Course overview
Evidence-based strategies for interviewing people with autism
This webinar presents the research on why existing investigative interviewing practices such as cognitive interviewing do not work with people with autism.
Understand the challenges and discover evidence-based strategies for gathering accurate, reliable evidence from people with autism.
Presenter
Dr Katie Maras
Dr Katie Maras is Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Autism Research ( CAAR) Bath University UK.
Katie’s research interests lie in applied cognitive psychology, with two main strands: autism and eyewitness/forensic psychology. Her current work, focuses on how autistic adults think and communicate differently, and what adaptations service providers can make to accommodate these differences. Katie has published numerous papers on a variety of topics concerning autism. This includes assessing credibility of autistic witnesses by jurors and how to improve current police interview strategies to produce better evidence.