Heather Agazzi, PhD, ABPP
Licensed Psychologist (PY7817)
HOT DOCS is a group-delivered, community based parenting intervention. HOT DOCS provides evidence-based, short-term, and low cost intervention for caregivers of children with behavior problems and/or developmental disabilities and training opportunities for professionals. HOT DOCS has been adapted for telehealth and a pilot study evaluated the efficacy of internet-HOT DOCS.
Contact us: hotdocs@usf.edu
DOCS K-5 expands on HOT DOCS to support caregivers of school-age children through a group-delivered, community based parenting intervention. DOCS K-5 has been adapted to telehealth. This project is important because it brings low-cost, short-term behavioral parent training intervention to community settings.
Contact us: hotdocs@usf.edu
Evaluation: Multimodal Algorithm for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Posted on September 27, 2025
This project aims to increase tools for early screening for ASD in the primary care setting using artificial intelligence via an application called MultiSense Autism Screening Index-Children. We have screened toddlers 18-36 months through a play-based assessment to record social-communication behavior of typical children, children with developmental delays, and children with developmental delays and suspected ASD. We are applying for federal funding to develop and finalize the application and test it in real-world settings.
Read about this research:
Fabiano, D., Canavan, S., Agazzi, H., & Goldgof, D. (2020). Gaze-based classification of autism spectrum disorder. Pattern Recognition Letters, 135, 204-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2020.04.028
Sk R. Jannat, H. Agazzi, and S. Canavan Context-based Dataset for Analysis of Videos of Autistic Children, 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2024.
