Tyler Whitney

I am a clinical psychologist licensed in the States of Arizona, Georgia, and Utah. I received my Psy.D. in clinical psychology in 2001 from the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, Springfield, MO. I have spent my professional career as both a clinician and researcher in autism spectrum disorders. My clinical and research work has focused on those with intact intelligence and language skills formerly diagnosed with Asperger’s Disorder or Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). Since 2015, as an adjunct Associate Professor with the Psychiatry and Law Program at Emory University Medical School, I worked with individuals, families, communities, researchers, fellowship psychiatrists and post-doctoral students. My role at Emory was specifically to instruct and train physicians and post-doctoral psychology residents who in the future would be dealing with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. I have been called upon regularly to assist participants in the legal system in understanding unique aspects of autism spectrum disorder as it relates to the vulnerability of autistic individuals to engage in offensive behavior, factors possibly affecting their competency to properly assist in their defense, the available successful therapies, risk of future offending, and the vulnerabilities if incarcerated or required to register as sex offenders. I am also consulted on other types of misdemeanor and felony offenses from murder to cruelty to animals. These cases are nationwide and include both state and federal courts.