STAR Autism Support has been working with Orient Speech Therapy (OST) since spring of 2016. OST has over 20 Centers across China. They are highly regarded as one of the premier Centers that provide services to children with speech communication needs in China. OST owns and operates the Centers in many of the major cities in China. OST has had a large increase in the number of children they serve with autism. One of their speech pathologists had previously received training from STAR Autism Support and her students were making significant progress. Given this information and the need for training OST staff on the evidence-based practices for autism, the CEO of OST reached out to STAR Autism Support to help provide training to the speech therapists at many of the OST Centers. SAS founders Joel Arick and Sheila Magee began the collaboration with OST by providing training to the OST staff in China. They have conducted workshops with OST staff, provided on-site training with students and conducted parent education sessions. Representatives of OST have also visited the USA to learn more about the evidence-based practices. Since February 2017, OST, with training from STAR Autism Support, initiated an innovative project to establish new STAR-OST Centers in China. The STAR-OST Centers provide high quality services for students with autism including consistent daily services, staff trained to implement evidence-based practices and extensive assessment and progress monitoring systems. The program includes multiple opportunities for students to promote generalization of newly acquired skills within functional daily routines. The Centers are in many of the major cities in China.

• Comprehensive evaluation services
• 9 cities with established OST-STAR centers
• 7 new centers will open in 2018
• Collaboration of Beijing hospitals and OST-STAR centers
• 350 students currently enrolled
• Individualized supports for students with physical and behavioral needs
• Parent training and communication components
• One-on-one and small group instruction
• Approximately 40 new skills generalized among students each month
• Essential skill instruction for success in school and post- academic settings