Betsy Stratis, M.A.

Trainee Type:

IDD Psychology

Email:

elizabeth.stratis@osumc.edu

Year:

2011-2015

Education:

Doctoral Student in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Child Clinical Psychology

Biography:

Research Interests

Research interests include autism spectrum disorders, assessment and diagnostic issues in ASDs and comorbid psychiatric disorders in ASDs. My first-year project will look at the presence of behavioral and emotional problems in autism compared to PDD-NOS. My MA thesis will look at the relationship of restricted and repetitive behaviors with psychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents with ASDs.

Grant & Fellowship Awards

12-month University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2010 – 2011.

Nisonger Center Trainee Research Funding Grant, March 2011.

3-month Fellowship, The Ohio State University College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012 (summer funding).

Posters/Presentations

Groden, J., Stratis, E., Lane, E., & Scrimgeour, M. (2009, March).  The Groden Center: Autism and New Technology.  Presented at Brown University, Providence, R.I.; Boston University, Boston, Mass.; and Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.

Wisocki, P., Groden, J., Stratis, E., & Spencer, R. (2010, June-July). A Therapeutic Job Club for Young Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome.Open paper presentation at the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, MA; the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Annual Conference, Providence, R.I.; the Autism Society of America Annual Conference, Dallas, Tx.

Honors

Magna Cum Laude graduate, Boston University, 2008