Dr. Fred Frankel is Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. He is the founder and Director of the UCLA Children’s Friendship Program. He has been Principal Investigator on two NIMH-funded studies of social skills training for children with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Co-Principal Investigator on one CDC-funded of social skills training for children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (Mary O’Connor, PI) and one interdisciplinary training grant for research in childhood psychosis (Peter Tanguay, PI). Dr. Frankel is a Co-Investigator in the NIH funded Center for Autism Intervention Research Network (PI Connie Kasari). He has published over 50 peer reviewed studies on Autism, ADHD, Developmental Disabilities, FASD and childhood obesity. He is co-author of two treatment manuals (Children’s Friendship Training, with Bob Myatt Ph.D. and Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The PEERS Treatment Manual, with Elizabeth Laugeson, Psy.D.) and two books for parents (Good friends are hard to find: Help your child find make and keep friends, Perspective Publishing, 1996 and Friends Forever, Jossey-Bass 2010). Professor Frankel joined the UCLA faculty in 1973.