AUCD: Poster Symposium: Emerging Strategies in Developmental Disabilities Services and Supports: Overcoming Educational and Health Disparities for African American Children with Autism: How Parent Resource Coordinators Connect Families to Services

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Rachel Ray AUCD Poster 2016.pdf [download] Rachel Ray AUCD FCEP Brochure 2016.pdf [download]

Presenter

Rachel Ray, M.A., Assistant Professor
Munroe-Meyer Institute of Genetics & Rehabilitation, UCEDD/LEND

Description

African American children diagnosed with autism often have lower educational and health outcomes than white children. A Parent Resource Coordinator outlines her efforts to help decrease the suspension and out-of-home placement rates for African American children with autism and increase their access to state and local resources and supports for improved educational and health outcomes.

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