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Increasing Folic Acid Intake through Public Health Education (WI- Waisman Center UCEDD/LEND)
Folic acid is a crucial B vitamin that can prevent up to two thirds of cases of neural tube defects if taken daily before a woman becomes pregnant. Over the past year, faculty, staff and trainees at the Waisman Center UCEDD and the WI LEND program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have been working to increase awareness of the significant public health impacts of daily folic acid use. Read more...
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Iowa's UCEDD Training Behavior Teams Improve Outcomes for Students Engaging in Challenging Behaviors
 The CDD training teams have worked with 19 school-based behavioral teams, varying in size from one to nine members, to teach them how to design, conduct, and analyze results of different behavioral assessments (e.g., preference assessments, functional analysis). Ten of the 19 teams have graduated from training and are now training other personnel in conducting these assessments. The CDD training teams have worked with 19 school-based behavioral teams, varying in size from one to nine members, to teach them how to design, conduct, and analyze results of different behavioral assessments (e.g., preference assessments, functional analysis). Read more...
WIHD offers Intensive Parenting Support for Parents with Intellectual Disabilities (NY UCEDD/LEND)
 Project IMPACT is an intensive, home-based parenting program that was created at WIHD to meet the needs of parents with intellectual/learning disabilities in Westchester County, NY. Project IMPACT's evidence-based curriculum was developed to assist parents with intellectual disabilities in developing parenting skills. The Project IMPACT curriculum utilizes a combined safety and skill based curriculum offered in a 1:1 multi-modal format and relies on in-the-moment teaching/modeling of skills, frequent practice and repetition, and incentives for effort. Read more...
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TennesseeWorks Employment Summit Focuses on High Expectations and Hard Work (TN UCEDD, IDDRC, LEND)
 TennesseeWorks, a collaborative project led by Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN UCEDD, IDDRC, LEND) Investigator Erik Carter, Ph.D., recently hosted the fourth Annual Think Employment! Summit, which focused on hard work and high expectations. "The harder you work, the more you earn." This quote underscored the tone and direction for much of keynote speaker Anthony Ianni's message to Summit attendees. Read more...
Beyond the Classroom: Wyoming Institute for Disabilities Partners with Local Arts Center (WY UCEDD)
 The Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND), Wyoming's UCEDD, piloted Disability Advocacy and Justice through the Disability Studies Minor, a core component of the pre-service education and training at WIND. Disability Advocacy and Justice started in the spring of 2016, bringing together five students from the Cooper Center for Creative Arts in Laramie and five students from the University of Wyoming's Disability Studies Minor to explore disability rights, services and policies, and to collaboratively identify and research current disability advocacy issues of concern to class members. Read more...
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East Meets West: Helping entrepreneurs who have disabilities make dreams a reality (IL UCEDD/LEND)
 When Laura Martinez first told people about her aspirations of becoming a chef and opening a restaurant, they weren't supportive. "They'd say, 'There's no way you're going to make it,'" Martinez recalled. "They said, 'Blind people don't do that,' and 'If you work in a grocery store, that's a big success.' "But I'm as capable as you are. I'm a chef. I want to cook." For a long time, she struggled to find the resources and help that she needed. From issues with grants to frustrations with service providers, the road to make her dreams a reality wasn't easy, she said. "It's like you have to draw blood or something. It shouldn't be like that." Read more...
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Voices of ASD Video Library Launched (CO UCEDD/LEND)
 We are excited to announce the new Voices of ASD Video Library, a collection of videos that explore the lives of individuals with ASD, with a focus on first person accounts and an exploration of what it means to live with ASD. Our goal is to deepen understanding among individuals with ASD, their families, and communities through the sharing of personal stories.
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Center for Leadership in Disability funded for Health Disparities Research Within HIV/AIDS and Disability Populations (GA UCEDD/LEND)
 The Center for Leadership in Disability (CLD) at Georgia State University in collaboration with the Phoenix Group Foundation has received funding from the Morehouse School of Medicine Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center (TCC) for Health Disparities Research to conduct a community-based evaluation focused on the availability and quality of HIV/AIDS prevention services for individuals with intellectual, developmental and significant learning disabilities in the Atlanta metro area. Read more...
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Healthy Community Living: Real People. Real Places. (MT UCEDD)
 The Healthy Community Living (HCL) project is about all people having opportunities to live well and participate fully in their communities. We had an opportunity to present, via a short video and a variety of sponsored sessions, at the 2016 APRIL Conference in Reno, Nevada. We spoke to disability advocates from Centers for Independent Living and other organizations. Read more...
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Report Addressing Workforce Challenges in NH Community Mental Health Centers (NH UCEDD/LEND)
 The NH Children's Behavioral Health Workforce Development Network recently released a report looking at the workforce challenges in NH's Community Mental Health Centers. The report, Improving Child & Community Health: Addressing Workforce Challenges in Our Community Mental Health Centers examined the characteristics of the children's mental health workforce, the impact of staff turnover, and the perspectives of the workforce on successful strategies.
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Einstein Buddies: Experiential Learning Partnerships Change Perceptions (NY UCEDD/LEND)
 Einstein Buddies is an innovative Community Based Service Learning program (CBSL) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine that joins pediatric occupational and physical therapists, individuals with developmental disabilities and their families at the Rose F. Kennedy Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC) UCEDD with first year medical students to develop collaborative relationships while engaged in experiential learning. Read more...
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A Personal Story of a Cultural Broker (MA UCEDD/LEND)
 When parents reach out to me, their stories may be very complicated, requiring intensive support in multiple areas, from medical and educational to social support. A few families have contacted me more than 150 times over the course of one year, both in person, or on the phone or via email. Communicating with schools and participating in school activities is often not part of Asian culture. Many of these families have high expectations for their children, but they don't expect a child with disability to be independent and to work. Read more...
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New Partnership Formed to Prepare People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities for Training Law Enforcement Personnel (MD UCEDD/LEND)
 The Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities at Kennedy Krieger Institute (MCDD) has entered into an agreement with the Maryland Department of Disabilities to work with community partners in preparing and supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) to educate law enforcement personnel on ways to safely interact with citizens who may have disabilities. The MCDD is partnering with three leading disability advocacy groups People On the Go of Maryland, Pathfinders for Autism, and The Arc Maryland. Read more...
Associate Director Interviews: Amy Health, Director of the Autism Program (TX UCEDD)
 One of our most exciting projects and collaboratives is The Autism Clinic (TAC), which partners with the Center and community providers in the Brazos Valley and statewide to provide services that address the education and community support needs of individuals with autism, including those with severe behavior challenges, and their families. Read more...
HANDS Model in Practice - Intensive 3-Day Programming and Workshop (IN UCEDD/LEND)
 HANDS in Autism will be conducting a series of Intensive 3-Day Programming & Workshop events over the next few months. Our intensive training focuses on providing hands-on experience and coaching in a simulated work environment. Individuals with disabilities participate, facilitating a rich learning environment for all. While the program includes traditional methods such as lectures and discussion, the emphasis of training is building increased knowledge and skill of the process of making appropriate programming decisions for each individual, workplace, and/or intervention team through hands-on application and learning. Read more...
Fellowship Grants Awarded to Three Goodwin College Students (UCONN UCEDD)
 Thanks to a grant focused on encouraging professional development for individuals from diverse backgrounds in human services, three Goodwin College students will have a rare - and challenging - educational experience that can profoundly shape their careers and benefit the clients with whom they will work. Read more...
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Children of the Kingdom: Bridging Genetics and Islam to Save the Children of Saudi Arabia
 We are pleased to announce that Terrence R. Dolan, Ph.D., former long-time director of the Waisman Center (UCEDD, LEND & IDDRC) at the University of Wisconsin has published his first book: Children of the Kingdom: Bridging Genetics and Islam to Save the Children of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Dolan describes the cultural adaptations and surprises facing an American family moving to a conservative Islamic country.
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AUCD is excited to announce the ADA International Fellowship Program, which presents a new opportunity for centers to strengthen international access to inclusive education by engaging with disability and education professionals from Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil and Peru. The program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, enables 20 competitively selected mid-career professionals from these countries to participate in a five-week intensive fellowship at a university research and education center (possibly a UCEDD or LEND). Fellows are based at the host center for four weeks, during which time they engage in structured trainings and plan an inclusive education project to be implemented on their return home. AUCD and the Institute for Community Inclusion-UMass Boston (ICI) will provide assistance to hosts, who may provide TA to Fellows and conduct site visits to their home countries at the end of the fellowship, deepening international partnerships formed during the program. The deadline for prospective Fellows to apply to the program is December 23, 2016. The application deadline for centers interested in hosting a Fellow is January 16, 2017. 
Dr. Jeni Ganz was awarded the "Extraordinary Service Award" from the College of Education Dean's Development Council on Friday, October 28th at the Hilton hotel. Throughout her career, in public education, as a graduate student, and as a faculty member, Dr. Ganz has demonstrated a commitment to people with developmental disabilities and their families, to the community, to colleagues, and to students. Below, I note career-long efforts on her part and will highlight efforts she spearheaded at TAMU and in affiliation with the Center on Disability and Development (CDD) at TAMU. 
Dr. Amanda Reichard recently became the new Chair of the Disability Research Interest Group (DRIG) for AcademyHealth. In this role, she will be working to elevate the importance of recognizing people with disabilities as a health disparities population. The Disability Research Interest Group is composed of health services and policy researchers interested in the coordination, quality improvement, and financing of services, assistive devices, and environmental changes needed for the optimal health and social integration of people in situations of disability. 
Stirling Peebles, former Think College Vermont student and current Think College Dissemination Assistant, has been recognized by Vermont Business Magazine as a 2016 Rising Star. The Rising Stars program was started in 2010 to show Vermonters-particularly the youth of Vermont-that there are people under the age of 40 who contribute significantly to this state, and that they are a valued resource when it comes to their employers and their communities. The list is comprised of 40 winners all under the age of 40. 
December 4-7, 2016, Washington, DC
March 4-7,2017, Kansas City, MO
March 8-10,2017, San Antonio, TX
