Act Early Update

April 15, 2014

 The CDC National Center on Birth  Defects and Developmental Disabilities and  AUCD, with support from MCHB, are currently  reviewing applications for a funding opportunity for Act Early Ambassadors to work  with CDC's "Learn the Signs. Act Early." (LTSAE) program to improve early identification of developmental delays and disabilities, including autism.  This will be the forth cohort of Act Early Ambassadors who will continue work of serving as a state, territory or organizational point-of-contact for the national LTSAE program and support of the work of Act Early Teams and other state or national initiatives to improve early identification of developmental delay and disability.  Ambassadors also work to promote adoption and integration of LTSAE resources, including materials to support developmental monitoring (milestone checklists, Milestone Moments booklet) and professional education tools ("Autism Case Training: A Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Curriculum", "Autism Case Training: Web-based CE Course") for primary care health professionals.  Announcements of this forth cohort of Act Early Ambassadors will be made in early May.  Please check out www.aucd.org/actearly for more details.