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Advocating for those with severe, intense and challenging behaviors… teens who wandered away from safe places and drowned. Since its inception in 2018, $10.3 million has been awarded to 77 grant recipients working to reduce deaths and injuries among individuals with dementia and developmental disabilities who wander from safe environments. More specifically, it provides grants to local programs helping to 1) locate and recover individuals who have wandered and 2) proactively focus on …

Policy Pulse Newsletter - July 2023… said they're likely to leave their jobs within the next year and go into a field outside of K-12.  How?  The bill creates a grant program to support the retention and recruitment of paraprofessionals in public preschool programs as well as … is the Right IDEA Act sets new funding levels for IDEA Part B Section 619, which authorizes additional preschool formula grants, and IDEA Part C, which authorizes early intervention programs. Why?    When IDEA legislation passed in 1975 and …

Research yields tips for easing anxiety in nonverbal kids with autism… of California, Los Angeles (above left), and Autism Speaks Weatherstone Fellow John Danial. An Autism Speaks research grant helped support Dr. Wood’s pioneering work on developing behavioral treatments for school children with autism and …

Autism Caregiver Training: Helping families… on waiting lists for these services. The opportunity to launch our first U.S. workshop and evaluation study came through a grant from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, in collaboration with our partners Mom2Mom of New Jersey. Mom2Mom is a …

2024 Advocacy Highlights… for services; training programs for future health professionals; autism prevalence monitoring; Kevin & Avonte’s Law grants that address safety and wandering prevention; and more. While Fiscal Year 2025 funding has not been finalized yet, … treat clients covered by private health insurance in public school settings. In Texas , we assured that $20 million in grant funding was reauthorized for public school districts to implement innovative autism programs, and new monies were … caregivers We secured 36 co-sponsors in Congress for the Autism Family Caregivers Act , which would award $50 million in grants to community-based organizations across the country that provide skills training to family caregivers of children …