Guest: Lillian Thompson Brown, MS CCC-SLP - Lillian's current research undertakings have been driven by passion from her personal experiences as a younger sibling to an autistic brother. If you, too, have been despairing over the extensive wait times that little ones and their caregivers have to endure in the process of obtaining an ASD diagnosis, then despair no more. If you have been frustrated that children of color tend not to receive an ASD diagnosis until years after their white male counterparts, again, we say, despair no more. There is hope. “The Reduce the Wait” project in Illinois is currently training over 1,000 early intervention SLPs on how to conduct virtual ASD assessments. Lillian is conducting qualitative research with the caregivers on their experiences to grow our cultural understandings and improve our caregiver coaching with families from different backgrounds.