Welcome (or welcome back) to ICAN

The Interactive Collaborative Autism Network (ICAN) is a project supported by a U.S. Department of Education Grant H324M000047. The site is a collaborative effort among three states: the State Departments of Education of Connecticut (CT) and Minnesota (MN) and the University of Kansas (KU). For detailed information about ICAN, please click HERE. If this is your first visit to ICAN, we recommend that you take a tour before browsing the ICAN contents.

For whom is ICAN developed?

This site is for anyone who lives with, teaches, or otherwise supports children and youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), including parents, teachers, and individuals with ASD. No background knowledge about ASD is necessary to use the site. We developed ICAN for anyone who wants to learn information related to individuals with ASD and made the site as accessible as possible.

What does ICAN offer?

• Online instructional modules on autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

• Information about characteristics, assessment, and academic, behavioral, communication, environmental, sensory, and social interventions.

Note: Each topic consists of an introduction, lecture, quiz, frequently asked questions (FAQs), glossary, and resources. Topics also contain a forum that allows users to communicate with other ICAN users.

This site is FREE for public access. If you want to link ICAN with your own site, please contact the ICAN webmaster.

Disclaimer

All information and resources contained in the Interactive Collaborative Autism Network (ICAN) website are for informational purposes only. This website does not purport to be sufficient to train educational or medical professionals to serve children and youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Legally responsible parties including pediatricians, educators, behavior analysts, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and other qualified professionals related to services for individuals with ASD are responsible for ensuring that they have the comprehensive skills needed to work with individuals with ASD. Any educational and medical services that are provided by these professionals and caregivers should have the expressed consent of individuals with ASD and/or their caregivers.

Although developers of ICAN have committed efforts to provide information and resources that are as universal as possible, some of the contents of this website might be viewed as inappropriate by some. Moreover, ICAN does not guarantee that the topics covered in the website are applicable to all individuals with ASD. Thus, it is the sole responsibility of users of this website to scrutinize the contents of the website. In addition, the citations and resources provided in the ICAN website are not comprehensive and absolute. The information and resources in ICAN are not intended to be used for any professional and nonprofessional training/practices, endorsements, licensures, and academic degrees.