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Autism and thunder: Parents seek advice to ease child’s extreme fear … therapy for anxiety in children and adolescents with autism, with the support of an Autism Speaks research grant . Editor’s note: The following information is not meant to diagnose or treat and should not take the place of personal …
Autism & anxiety: Parents seek help for extreme reaction to loud noise… of cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety in adolescents with autism, with the support of an Autism Speaks research grant . Our 12-year-old son has autism, mild intellectual disability and anxiety attacks so severe that we end up in the …
Autism & Highways: Is Attraction Common? How Can We Safeguard our Son?… accessories like wristwatches or shoes. A neighbor alert form can be found below. Autism Speaks has recently provided a grant to Project Lifesaver to protect individuals with autism prone to wandering through a multi-faceted approach involving …
Breakthrough science from a Walk volunteer turned autism researcher… produce any solid evidence that the compound would help people. We even ended up returning some of the funds from the pilot grant to Autism Speaks. My team’s failure left us with a nagging doubt. Could we ever hope to understand autism in a rodent …
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 …
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 …
ATN@Work: Improving emergency care for children with autism… how to communicate with patients who have autism. Autism Speaks’ helped fund the program with a Family Services community grant . … ATN@Work: Improving emergency care for children with autism …
ATN@Work: Personalizing hospital care for children with autism… around a document that pediatricians ask parents fill out prior to any hospitalization. The study was made possible by a grant from the Autism Speaks ATN in its role as the federally funded Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical …
New study on health risks of risperidone: Your questions answered… team focus on risperidone? Dr. Scahill: 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 …