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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 …
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 …
EMPOWER Care Act introduced to reauthorize Money Follows the Person… 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 …
Small study finds B12 injections ease autism symptoms in some children… Some earlier research has suggested that the process is impaired in some people with autism . The new study, supported by a grant from Autism Speaks , appears online in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology . It is the first …
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 …
Promoting Teen Social Skills… studies involving adolescents with autism. You can explore these and other Autism Speaks studies using our  Autism Speaks grant search . Got more questions? Send them to GotQuestions@autismspeaks.org .  … Promoting Teen Social Skills …
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 …
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 …