UCAN is a multi-disciplinary team of professionals concerned with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders in children. The Team is a diverse group of professionals from different disciplines and agencies throughout Northern Nevada comprised of child psychiatrists, child psychologists, school psychologists, an occupational therapist, marriage and family therapist, speech language pathologists, and a developmental specialist. This means providing individualized outcomes from assessment that has a meaningful impact on children and families and enables affordable access to assessment. We provide three extensive assessments per month as well as follow up to help families access the recommended treatments outlined by the Team. The team functions in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology in the School of Medicine.

Provides a parent implemented, intensive, evidence-based early intervention program for young children with autism. PLAY Project services can be located here.

The PLAY Project is based on the DIR® (Developmental, Individualized, Relationship-based) theory of Stanley Greenspan, MD and Serena Weider PhD, and emphasizes the importance of helping parents become their child’s best play partner.