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Autism Speaks funds new research on auditory processing disorder… Autism Speaks, with the support of a Royal Arch Research Assistance grant, is funding one predoctoral fellowship, one postdoctoral fellowship and one pilot study to understand central auditory …

Meet Daniel T.… Daniel’s mom credits the success of the business to an abundance of support from their local community and a business grant from vocational rehabilitation that provides first time business owners essential tools to get up and running. …

Research to practice: Expanding opportunities for employment… Assessments from the Alpine Learning Group   The Alpine Learning Group of Paramus, N.J., with the support through a grant from NEXT for AUTISM from the proceeds of Comedy Central’s  Night of Too Many Stars , developed two assessments to be …

Autism Speaks and Autism Speaks Canada Support Launch of the Canadian Platform for Genomics and Precision Health… attribution. With this new platform, health data stewards can easily connect datasets into distributed networks and grant permissions for data consumers to be able to derive privacy-preserving federated insights across them. The system is …

Voting facts: Dispelling myths & misconceptions… of the American Disabilities Act, which states public entities must make reasonable modifications to policies in order to grant equal access to its programs, services, and activities for individuals with disabilities. This applies to voting …

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 …

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 …