SEARCH Center

“SEARCH supported me with invaluable training that began the summer before my graduate classes even began. There I had the opportunity to receive training on the ADOS, which enabled me to provide community-based assessments at the SEARCH autism screening clinic throughout my time as a graduate student. These skills combined with my doctoral training in school psychology helped prepare me for practice that reaches beyond the school doors.”

“I really enjoyed learning and working with colleagues at SEARCH as a postdoctoral scholar. I had a lot of great opportunities to learn new assessment tools, collaborate with students and faculty, and support Spanish-speaking families.”

“SEARCH has allowed me the pleasure of working with the Inland Empire community and specifically minoritized and neurodiverse communities. I have been able to not only gain research and clinical experience, but it has also reinforced my passion in continuing to work in autism research and make services and supports more accessible to families.”

“While graduate school is no walk in the park, effort, mentorship, and fit are key. SEARCH not only prepared me well for success in academia, it was also the place I met the lifelong colleagues and close friends that I continue to work and laugh with today.”

"As a first-generation student, I struggled to find community among students that didn't look like me or shared my story. At SEARCH, I not only found a learning community that made me feel like I belonged, but also a home and a family that valued my ways of knowing and doing. I had amazing opportunities to work with families and children from my community and learn skills that I could never have acquired in my courses. Throughout my training at SEARCH, I learned lessons on humility, affirming care, respect for cultural diversity and neurodiversity, which continue to inform my practice, teaching, and service to the profession."