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Autism and depression: What is the connection?… associated with thinking about suicide and suicide attempts in children with ASD . (The study was supported, in part, by a grant from Autism Speaks .) Through parent interviews, the researchers inquired about 791 children with autism, 186 …

Statement on National Emergency Educational Waivers related to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act … Economic Security (CARES) Act, the U.S. Department of Education announced last week that it will not request that Congress grant it the authority to waive core tenets of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Autism Speaks is …

Autism and mental health in young people… as well as isolation, exhaustion and financial strain on parents and other caregivers. An Autism Speaks treatment research grant enabled researchers at Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute to address the urgent need to:   Better identify mental …

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 …

New study on health risks of Risperidone: Your questions answered… why did your team focus on risperidone? We have a long history of studying risperidone. We began in the late 1990s with a grant from the National Institute of Health. Risperidone was relatively new at the time. We were interested in the drug …

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 …