The Poster Exhibition features the posters presented during the Virtual Poster Symposium, as well as additional CAAI Grantee posters to provide the opportunity to learn more about the work CAAI grantees are doing to improve the lives of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disabilities and their families.
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Activities of the Part C Early Intervention Program should be evidence-based. In 1999, the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH) Early Intervention (EI) program published the first state-funded Birth-to-Three ... Read More...
The AZLEND program provides Fellows with the opportunity to participate in a yearlong research study project designed to improve early identification and referral for children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders... Read more...
Creating a Model for Systemic Change: The ASD Early STEP Project
Children and youth with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities (ASD/DD) in Virginia and their families face significant challenges in accessing family focused, culturally competent, affordable coordinated health care... Read more...
First Connections is a 3-year project, funded by First 5 Los Angeles. This collaboration of six community based agencies and the USC UCEDD as the Training and Technical Assistance provider is: Developing replicable and sustainable... Read more...
Development of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Parent Report for Outcome Monitoring (ASD-PROM)
This poster presents the development and goals of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Parent Report for Outcome Monitoring (ASD-PROM), a new tool for monitoring symptoms of ASD over time... Read more...
The researchers explored how inclusion works in an urban underserved community. This is a secondary analysis of data that were collected using focus groups and key informant interviews... Read more...
Access to Therapy for Children with Autism: A Population-Based Analysis
This research aimed to examine population-based trends in access to therapy services for children with ASD under the age of 18 years, compared differences in access to therapy services between children with ASD and children with SHCN... Read more...
"Transitioning Together" Translational Research: From Research to Practice
Wisconsin LEND trainees and faculty worked together to design and implement a translational research study on the effectiveness of a social/behavioral intervention for adolescents... Read more...
Preparing Medical Students to Care for Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A curriculum was developed that incorporates didactic instruction, patient interviews and panel discussions to teach medical students how to care for patients with autism spectrum disorder... Read more...
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) continues to increase, as does the evidence of the importance of early identification and treatment for optimal outcomes.... Read more...
Multiple Barriers to Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnosis in Latino Children
Question: Why are Latino children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders less often and later than non-Latino white children? Latino children are diagnosed with ASDs 2.5 years... Read more...
The HWRN-ASD/DD was established in 2013; its mission is to advance the understanding of obesity risk factors in children with ASD/DD, to promote the development of evidence-based... Read more...
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have significant difficulty making a successful transition into adulthood. In their post-secondary years, ninety-percent of youth with ASD... Read more...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive behaviors. Current pharmacological... Read more...
Ohio's Response to Autism: Five Facts in Five Minutes!
Ohio's State Implementation Grant for Improving Services for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other Developmental Disabilities is advancing autism-related.... Read more...
Autism spectrum disorders are etiologically diverse and associated with a variety of co-morbid disorders, which have important implications regarding both treatment and family counseling... Read more...
Snack Time Intervention for Preschoolers with ASD: Fun and Function
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience eating difficulties, such as food selectivity (picky eating), more than children with intellectual disability and children with... Read more...
Exploring the Relationships between Cognitive and Adaptive Assessments
Standardized cognitive tests have been shown to be reliable and valid for individuals with autism spectrum disorder, but test selection at the individual child level continues to pose challenges.... Read more...
What Are the Barriers to Autism Diagnosis and Treatment for African American Children?
Research literature suggests there are barriers to properly diagnosing African American children with autism, as well as barriers to these children receiving treatment. The Agency for... Read more...
Does musical training improve speech and music perception in children with cochlear implants? Cochlear implantation has given children and adults with profound hearing loss the ability to hear... Read more...
Adult Interpretations of Potential Communicative Acts in Individuals with Rett Syndrome
Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disability that affects 1 in 10,000 females and is one of the most common causes of profound disability in girls. Individuals with RTT demonstrate significant deficits in communication skills, but... Read more...
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are often delayed in acquiring toileting skills, with skill acquisition often taking a year or more of training to accomplish. Urinary incontinence may... Read more...
In individuals with developmental disabilities, interactions among parent, child, and family characteristics is particularly important. The impact of anxiety and depression on family functioning... Read more...
This poster presents data from preliminary work with bilingual families in the iCan Chat project which sought to improve the communication skills of nonverbal children with ASD and related disabilities by coaching parents and providing ... Read more...
Partnerships among several HRSA funded programs in New Hampshire form a strong foundation for identifying strengths, gaps, and solutions for improving the system of care for individuals on the autism spectrum... Read more...
Access to quality early intervention services for toddlers with ASD in rural communities is rare across the country. Family Implemented TEACCH for Toddlers (FITT) was developed as a structured teaching... Read more...
Maternal Plasma Folate Levels in Pregnancy and Early Child Cognitive and Language Development
Fetal central nervous system (CNS) development is reliant on the adequacy of the maternal micronutrient folate levels. Folate is a water-soluble vitamin which is involved with cell proliferation... Read more...
Autism Fellows Team: An Interdisciplinary Training Model
CA-LEND's Autism Fellow Team is an innovative interdisciplinary training model, developed to meet the objective of the CAAI to increase awareness, reduce barriers to screening, and promote... Read more..
TACERN: Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Autism Center of Excellence Research Network is a unique collaboration of five children's hospitals and five affiliated LEND training programs. The Network is currently... Read more...
How to Differentiate Autism Spectrum Disorder from Hearing Loss
Through a case study, this poster focuses on avoiding missed diagnoses in children with both ASD and hearing loss due to overlap in symptomatology... Read more...