Our Programs

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The Autism Support Services: Education, Research, and Training (ASSERT) program provides critical research-based support to children with autism and their families throughout the state of Utah. The ASSERT model classroom, located on the Utah State University campus in Logan, provides 20 hours per week of intensive, evidence-based intervention and support to approximately 20 families of children with autism per year who live in Cache Valley area. ASSERT also serves as a research laboratory for the development of effective interventions as well as a training site for educators from Utah, the Intermountain West, and beyond. As a university-based center, the vast majority of employees of the ASSERT program are undergraduate or graduate students at Utah State University who are learning how to implement research-based interventions for young children with autism. 

donations to the ASSERT directly support the core mission of the program: improving the lives of children with autism and their families through education, research and training. Specifically, these donations are used to support the graduate and undergraduate student curriculum supplies that are critical to the program's operation. This year, through the generous donations given to ASSERT, we were able to provide services to 22 families of children with autism in the on campus classroom, the largest number we have served in the 18-year history of the program. Countless others benefitted from the research conducted and training provided by the Assert Staff.

https://assert.usu.edu/