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Autism Speaks funds promising new treatment and diagnostic studies …   Autism Speaks is pleased to announce more than $1.6 million in grants for three promising research projects that will each span three years. The first study will rigorously test a new … Mindy Scheithauer, of Emory University’s Marcus Autism Center, will lead the study. It will enroll 76 children.  The second grant will support a clinical trial of leucovorin (a form of folate, or vitamin B9) that has shown early promise in …

Autism Speaks and Royal Arch Masons expand funding for auditory-processing research… fellowship and second pilot study focused on central auditory processing disorder – all made possible by a generous grant from the Royal Arch Research Assistance program. “Our longstanding partnership with the Royal Arch Masons has enabled …

Money Follows the Person Program is extended!… cost-effective care. The MFP project was authorized through 2016 although some states will be able to continue to use their grant funds through 2020. However,  without Congressional reauthorization, states will lose access to the enhanced funding …

Autism Speaks and Royal Arch Masons fund research on auditory processing disorder … Autism Speaks, with the support of a Royal Arch Research Assistance grant, is funding a pilot study and a research fellowship to address sound-processing difficulties among people with autism …

Study finds altered brain growth patterns that predict autism… for universal screening. The paper appears online in the journal Nature . Autism Speaks helps fund IBIS through a grant to senior investigator Joseph Piven, a developmental psychiatrist with the University of North Carolina School of …

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 …

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 …