TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
07/22/2024
AIR-P Research Day at Autism CARES Meeting 2024: Translating Research to Community Impact
The Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) will be hosting its 7th semi-annual Research Day at the Autism CARES Meeting 2024 in July 2024. This event is part of the Autism CARES Meeting and will emphasize "Translating Research to Community Impact", highlighting content related to the physical health and overall well-being of autistic individuals. This virtual event is open to all.
RD@CARES24 RFP.pdf
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03/08/2024
NTDC Presents: Recruiting and Supporting Diverse Trainees
Join us for an interactive discussion on recruiting and supporting diverse trainees within your training programs. The panel will highlight three training programs in the AUCD Network with experience recruiting and supporting diverse trainees, including trainees across states, trainees utilizing distance learning, trainees with lived experience and finally, second-year trainees. Come prepared with questions and plan to participate in a facilitated discussion! We encourage you to share your own program's recruitment strategies, successes, and challenges.
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07/11/2023
AIR-P Research Day at Autism CARES 2023
AIR-P Research Day at CARES 2023 Full Agenda
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05/17/2023
2023 Emerging Leaders End of Year Webinar
This webinar is to celebrate the end of the academic year and share professional development tips with outgoing and continuing trainees in the Emerging Leaders Community, including advice on staying engaged with the AUCD network. Participants will hear from our Emerging Leader Board Member, Aliana Romero, AuD, CCC-A, and AUCD's Council Trainee Representatives.
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02/01/2023
Now Archived: 2023 AUCD Leadership Academy Informational Webinar
This webinar will offer interested potential applicants an opportunity to interact with the AUCD Leadership Academy faculty. The webinar will feature a brief overview of the 2023 Academy curriculum and timeline. This will be followed by a time for questions from potential applicants to the 2023 AUCD Leadership Academy. In addition, alumni will share their reflections about the benefits they gained from participation in the week-long academy. and the follow-up activities.
AUCD Leadership Academy Pre-Application Webinar 2023[51] - Read-Only.pdf
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11/14/2022
AIR-P Research Day at AUCD 2022 Conference
This in-person, semi-annual event is an opportunity to highlight innovative life course intervention research supported by the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P). This event is part of the AUCD 2022 Conference.
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10/31/2022
Now Archived: Strategies for Writing Manuscript for Peer Review
Strategies for Writing a Manuscript for Peer Review.pdf
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08/10/2022
AIR-P Research Day at Autism CARES 2022
This virtual, semi-annual event is an opportunity to highlight innovative life course intervention research supported by the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P).
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07/11/2022
Inclusive Public Health Communication Workshop Series: Segmented Public Health Messages
Segmented Public Health Messaging will help participants harness the power of storytelling to enhance messaging and evoke emotion and compassion within a diverse audience. Content will focus specifically on weaving social justice themes into your content, and building audience engagement by highlighting community efforts to combat health inequities.
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07/21/2021
2021 Autism CARES Grantee Meeting: Committing to Health Equity Across the Lifespan
The 2021 Autism CARES Meeting will be held Wednesday, July 21st from 2 PM - 5 PM ET via Zoom. This virtual event is an opportunity for HRSA-funded CARES grantees (representing research, training, and state systems) to share information about activities within their respective networks, discuss emerging trends, and facilitate meaningful collaboration. The meeting includes both panels and roundtable discussions.
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06/22/2021
Supporting Teachers' Use of Assistive Technology in Early Childhood: Lessons Learned in a Post-Pandemic World
In this webinar, presenters will discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to modify a professional development program designed to support early childhood educators in using assistive technology with young children with disabilities. Following a brief overview of the core features of our coaching model, presenters will discuss responsiveness to the needs of both parents and educators as they pivoted to using AT for remote learning. The presentation will highlight unique challenges, unexpected benefits, key takeaways, and implications for the future of AT training in a virtual world.
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06/01/2021
Prepared4ALL: Whole Community Inclusive Emergency Planning Online Training Course
This course will increase your knowledge about whole community emergency planning, including COVID-19 planning, as well as provide basic information needed to connect with your own local emergency planners, public health professionals, and community.
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05/27/2021
Professional Fellows Alumni Webinar: Creating Sustainable U.S. - East Africa Partnerships for Disability Inclusion
AUCD, ICI-UMass Boston, and Humanity & Inclusion (HI) invite you to join a Professional Fellows alumni webinar on how university centers, DPOs, and other disability rights groups in the United States and East Africa can create independent, sustainable partnerships that promote inclusive employment and education in lasting ways.
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05/21/2021
AIR-P Presents - Brain and Body in Motion: Understanding and supporting motor dysfunction in Autism
Motor dysfunction are prevalent and pervasive in autistic individuals. However, due to the heterogeneity of motor dysfunction and the categorization in DSM-5 as an associated deficit, this condition often goes undetected and undertreated. Improving our understanding of motor dysfunction in autism is important so that we can adequately screen for these difficulties and ultimately provide the best interventions.
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02/16/2021
AIR-P Presents: COVID-19 Vaccine, I/DD Populations, and the Needle Anxiety Program at UCLA
Immunizations are crucial to protect all people from vaccine-preventable illnesses. Some studies suggest that autistic individuals have lower rates of immunizations, for reasons that are not entirely clear. Multiple organizations have called for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be prioritized in COVID-19 vaccination distribution. Vaccine hesitancy and needle phobia are two likely contributors towards lower vaccination rates. One of the initial intervention projects from the AIR-P focuses on reducing needle anxiety and improving immunization rates among autistic individuals. This intervention was developed as a pilot to address needle anxiety in conjunction with Pfizer and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for use in an Improving Pediatric Immunization Care collaborative but has not been widely implemented. The AIR-P network provides an opportunity to implement this needle anxiety intervention in multiple sites. Measures of success for this intervention would include vaccination rates among autistic individuals and satisfaction with the vaccine administration process.
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