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Coffee shop serves up employment opportunities for autistic young adults… I was introduced to Fran Hines, a trustee of Belmar First Aid Squad. He and a few other trustees had the opportunity to grant money to local charities and nonprofits in the area. Thankfully, they chose the Kindness Cafe!”  Now in its second …

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 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 …

Autism & GI-related Sleep Disturbances: Q&A … maternal or paternal ages independently increase autism risk – and to what extent each might do so. Supported by research grants from Autism Speaks , the iCare team looked at autism rates among 5,766,794 children – including more than 30,000 with … Explore all the research that Autism Speaks is funding – including research into autism risk factors – using this website’s Grant Search Engine .  … Study also uncovers risk with wide gaps between parent ages; research needed to understand why … …

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 …

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 …