Antonio Pagán, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at UTHealth Houston’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was awarded second place in the T1-T4 in 3 (Minutes) competition held May 1, 2024, for his research on autism among Latinos. The project, “¡Iniciando! La Adultez (Launching! To Adulthood): A Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of a Group Therapy Program for Young Adults with Neurodevelopmental Differences Transitioning to Adulthood,” focuses on the challenge of transitioning to adulthood for Spanish-speaking Latino youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
The T1-T4 in 3 (Minutes) competition, hosted by the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at UTHealth Houston, requires participants to present their in-depth research to a lay audience in less than three minutes. An exercise in effective communication, the challenge lies in explaining scientific concepts and data to a nonscientific audience. The research findings must be applicable to a community (i.e., “translational”) to make them more relevant and compelling to a broader population…
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