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9/14/2022
Inaugural "The Style Show: A Runway to Empower"
Rare by Design hosted their inaugural event "The Style Show: A Runway to Empower" to give a platform, or in this case a runway, for all. Rare by Design was founded by Kendra Gottsleben, a marketing and communications specialist with the University of South Dakota Center for Disabilities (SD UCEDD/LEND). Gottsleben is a disability/rare disease advocate, author, and seeks to expand the region's diversity mindset. that makes us beautiful.
9/14/2022
Joan Beasley, PhD, Promoted to Research Professor
Institute on Disability (IOD) is proud to announce the promotion of Joan B. Beasley, PhD, to Research Professor at the University of New Hampshire. The promotion is granted to faculty who have a background in successful research, marked by maturity and experience that have earned them a national or international reputation in their field. UNH research faculty bring a substantial proportion of the university's external funding, mentor graduate students, and deepen scholarly life across campus.
9/14/2022
MN LEND fellow co-founds Minnesota Autistic Alliance
Milena Bates (MN LEND 2021-22), co-founder of the Minnesota Autistic Alliance, is recruiting self-advocates for new projects supported by a grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Cultivate, a 10-hour online self-advocacy course covering how to identify needs, navigate barriers, and understand intersectionality (among other topics), begins August 23. It is designed for and by neurodivergent self-advocates. Lattice is a partnering program that will connect a team of three partners best suited to the support needs of a self-advocate. The group also is recruiting writers for an accessible, digital resource database.
9/13/2022
Screen Time Associated with Increased Inattention and Hyperactivity and Lower Language Scores in Young Children
In a new study of 36-month-old children showed that between a control group, children with an autism diagnosis, and children with ADHD symptoms, children with more inattention and hyperactivity had more screen time. They also had lower language scores. The root cause is still unknown, and this could be correlation. Children at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders had a negative association with screen time.
9/9/2022
NIH Awards $100 Million for Autism Centers of Excellence Program
AUCD Network Members Awarded
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a total of $100 million over the next five years to support nine Autism Centers of Excellence (ACEs). This endeavor funds large research projects to understand and develop interventions for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Created in 2007, the ACE program is renewed every five years.
9/6/2022
Building Community Capacity for Accessible Vaccine Events
The UCEDD in the Institute on Development and Disability at OHSU worked with the Oregon Health Authority to create resources for vaccine events to be more inclusive. They made videos, guides, and checklists to go with a boxed kit of accessibility tools. This will help people with disabilities and people who speak languages other than English get vaccines in their communities. There are more videos and resources coming soon.
8/30/2022
FY 2023 Paper Forms
8/29/2022
AUCD 360 - August 2022
8/29/2022
Children with autism report greater gender diversity: study
Emily Stembridge
Children with autism report higher rates of gender diversity - the way an individual experiences gender, which may be different from the gender they were assigned at birth - than their typically developing peers, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) researchers have found.
8/29/2022
Funding Opportunity: Children's Mental Health Champions
Deadline: September 23, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. ET
Through a cooperative agreement, the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will support a pilot program of Children's Mental Health Champions. This funding opportunity is limited to AUCD network members in any state or Territory. The Champions will support AUCD's evaluation of the Children's Mental Health Champions program by documenting and reporting project activities and measurable process outputs and short-term outcomes via program reporting forms conducted at the two-time points (mid-year and end of the program year). AUCD staff will be available to support Champions in different components of the program, including providing training and technical assistance as needed.
8/25/2022
LEND Family Mentorship Models
The long-awaited LEND Family Mentorship Models are here! This document was written by LEND programs for LEND programs and contains several different versions of this experience from across the network. The LEND Family Discipline Network (LFDN) hopes you will use this document to help inspire or develop your own family mentorship experience in your LEND program.
8/23/2022
Mike Hoenig's Retirement Signals the End of an Era for Iowa's UCEDD
The Center for Disabilities and Development (CDD), Iowa's UCEDD, is celebrating the end of an era. Mike Hoenig, long-time program coordinator for the UCEDD, has retired after twenty-nine years of service at CDD. Hoenig has played an integral role in a variety of programs and projects, including Living Well Iowa, our state's version of Living Well with a Disability.
8/22/2022
2022-2024 AUCD Emerging Leader Board Member
Position Description and Selection
The AUCD Board of Directors is seeking nominations from the network's Emerging Leader community to fill the newly created Emerging Leader Board Member voting position on the Board. The Emerging Leader Board Member will be a voting member on AUCD's national Board of Directors and serve as a representative of the Association and broader AUCD network. This position will bring the voice and perspective of the AUCD Emerging Leader Community, including but not limited to trainees and early career professionals in the network.
8/15/2022
New Horizons of Discovery on Sex Differences in Autism
John Constantino, MD, for the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
The sex ratio for autism, 3 boys for every girl, occurs long before the time of puberty and is observed in all populations around the world, but its cause has remained a mystery. The Washington University Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center has been hard at work for years trying to uncover the biology of this profoundly influential sex difference. This year, the IDDRC team joined the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Collaboration on Sex Differences in Autism, an international effort to combine the technologies and work of a select group of scientists around the world to further advance understanding of the biological mechanisms that distinguish males and females in the recognition, expression, and incidence of autism.
8/12/2022
Inclusive, Accessible Health Care the Focus of Free Continuing Medical Education Course
Primary care providers can receive three CME credit hours while learning how to provide better care to their patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A new Continuing Medical Education (CME) course aimed at facilitating more equitable and accessible health care for patients with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) is available through the University of Arizona Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities. The CME is a free and self-directed online course for physicians, nurse practitioners, and other licensed health care providers who require continuing education. Course completion grants three CME credit hours toward license renewal.
8/9/2022
ANCOR's COVID-19 Vaccine Toolkit
As a DSP, It's Up to Me! Protect yourself and the people you support
Developed by ANCOR with funding from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), "As a DSP It's Up to Me" recognizes that people with I/DD should be able to live and thrive in their communities. We want them to live where they want to live, with whom they want to live. We want them to have jobs that are fulfilling to them. And we recognize achieving these goals requires isolating people with I/DD from the dangers of COVID-19. With a goal of keeping people with I/DD and the people around them safe and healthy, The COVID-19 Vaccine Toolkit was designed with ANCOR members and other community providers in mind. You are an essential partner for this initiative, and these tools were designed for you-to make it as easy as possible for you to engage with your colleagues on the frontlines to get vaccinated.
