Who are ADOS-2 trainers?
What a trainer does, the different routes people have taken to become one, and the prerequisites for being listed here.
What a trainer does
Teaching for clinical use and to research reliability, running consistency scoring sessions, mentoring and supervision.
Types of trainer
People listed here have arrived at training by different routes. The list records the route without making a judgement about it.
- Trainers of trainers affiliated with the authors. Independent trainers with close links to the test authors. The authors do not officially recognise trainers of trainers outside the three US sites (Stanford, Minnesota and Rutgers). Local trainers elsewhere may run their own schemes to train new trainers and maintain local networks.
- Trainers of trainers not affiliated with the authors.
- Trainers affiliated with the authors.
- Trainers trained outside the affiliation route — trained by an affiliated trainer.
- Trainers trained by another non-affiliated trainer.
- Self-described trainers.
- Independent trainers listWeill Cornell Medicine (PDF)
Open question for the group. Who decides which category a listed person falls into, on what evidence, and who signs that off? These labels carry weight and need an agreed process behind them.
Where training happens
Online or face to face; within an organisation such as a hospital or university; as public courses; or as commissioned bespoke courses.
Prerequisites and vetting — new UK trainers
Not yet agreed by the UK trainer group. This section will set out what someone must have done before being listed as a trainer here, and the procedure by which the group checks it. Trainers active before 2027 are included as recorded; this applies from 2027 onwards.
Prerequisites and vetting — author-affiliated trainers
The US group sets its own requirements for becoming a trainer-in-training and then a certified trainer. In summary, these cover completion of introductory and advanced/research training, achieved research reliability on post-course tape submissions, a formal application with a recommendation from a certified trainer, serving as a trainer-in-training at a second advanced training, a further recommendation based on that performance, and a doctoral level clinical degree (with exceptions considered case by case).
Enquiries about becoming an affiliated trainer or trainer of trainers: asdtraining@stanford.edu
A current link to the university trainer requirements is needed — the previous UCSF ADOS-2 training FAQs page has moved.
Becoming an affiliated trainer of trainers
To be agreed. Contact with the US author group is needed first, before a route to train as a trainer of trainers can be described.