This $257,612 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants is supporting a pilot trial of the Individualized Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment for autistic adults in the community. The goal is to improve competitive integrated employment (CIE) outcomes for this population, which currently faces high rates of unemployment and underemployment. The key activities include: 1) Conducting focus...
The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Autism Society Of America Nassau SU, a non-profit organization, under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289). The 24-month project, titled "Vocational Skills and Healthy Living", aims to provide vocational skills training and healthy living instruction to participants aged 16-25 years in commercial kitchen, restaurant, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems award provides $600,000 over 3 years (8/1/2023 - 7/31/2026) to Michigan State University to develop an assistive technology framework for improving social skills interventions for children with autism and other developmental disabilities in classroom settings. The key products to be developed include a wearable human interaction tracker (WHET) tag that can quantitatively measure and track interactions...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to address the shortage of talent in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by supporting innovative pedagogical approaches to teach AI technical skills and crucial collaboration/communication skills to autistic community college students. The $208,240 project, led by Carnegie Mellon University and Pennsylvania State University, will develop learning materials and...
Directed Analytics Inc. received a $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop an automated employability skills framework. The one-year project will create a scalable software platform integrating data from school districts and higher education programs on transition methods and employment outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities. Using machine learning, the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program is funding a $299,813 project titled "Engaging Individual Education Plan Teams as Co-Designers of Middle Grades Computing Activities for Autistic Students." The project aims to develop tools and resources to create computational thinking activities for autistic students that are co-designed with their Individualized Education Plan (IEP) teams. The co-design process will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded through the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports a mixed methods study conducted by researchers at Cornell University to identify barriers and facilitators in the interview process for autistic undergraduate students pursuing STEM careers. The $200,014 award aims to: 1) explore the experiences of autistic college students in STEM interview preparation; 2) analyze the impact of various strategies on autistic students'...
This $875,000 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research program (CFDA 93.433). The 5-year grant will fund the "Learning & Working During the Transition to Adulthood Rehabilitation Research & Training Center" led by the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The key objectives of this...
The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded a $465,136 Project Grant under the Research in Special Education (CFDA 84.324) program to the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The grant, titled "Identifying Social Experiences Linked to Academic Outcomes of Middle and High School Students with ASD in General Education Classrooms: Laying the Groundwork for Interventions," will fund research aimed at understanding the social experiences of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $2,917,827 in funding to San Diego State University Foundation to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the "Unstuck and On Target" executive functioning intervention for autistic youth in community mental health settings. The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of this autism-focused...