Author Description
Kari Dunn Buron has been working with students with autism for over 30 years. She has recently retired from public school but continues to teach for Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota where she developed an Autism Spectrum Disorders Certificate program for educators. Kari is one of the founding members of the Minnesota Autism Network, a statewide network of ASD educational consultants. Kari has done volunteer work specific to autism in Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, Tanzania and Ghana. In 2003, Kari received a Self-designed Fellowship that allowed her to spend a year interviewing and working internationally with a number of therapists and researchers in the area of Social Cognition, Education and Autism. Kari serves on the Professional Advisory Boards for the Autism Society of Minnesota, Lionsgate Academy and for the Autism Asperger Digest. She is the co-author of The Incredible 5-Point Scale, and the author of When My Worries Get Too Big, A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control and A 5 is Against the Law! (2008 ASA literary award winner). Kari is also the co-editor of a new textbook for educators titled Learners on the Autism Spectrum: Preparing Highly Qualified Educators and recently created a new magazine designed for students with ASD called The Social Times.
