April 9, 2025
| | | | Announcements | | Friday, April 11, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET Join the Autism Consortium of Texas for "Barriers and Facilitators of Parent/Caregiver Involvement in Home-based ABA." Learn about key strategies to increase parent/caregiver engagement in home-based behavioral interventions. This is a great opportunity for providers, educators, and advocates. | Tuesday, April 17, 2024, 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET This Autism Acceptance Month, it’s more important than ever to separate the myths from the facts! Join the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) for “Autism Myths and Misconceptions.” This panel is a chance for our community to talk about the myths and misconceptions we hear about autism and why it’s important to make sure people know the facts. | The Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies at the University of Kansas is inviting U.S. adults with physical, mental, emotional, or health conditions to take part in the 2025 National Survey on Health and Disability. Your experiences with healthcare, insurance, and community participation are crucial in shaping policies and resources for people with disabilities. By sharing your insights, you’ll help improve health, employment, and overall quality of life for individuals with disabilities across the nation. The survey is available online in English, Español, and American Sign Language, or over the phone.
| The AUCD Employment page focuses on job and fellowship opportunities at AUCD, within our Network, and at organizations affiliated with our Network. The Ohio State University Nisonger Center seeks an Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training on Community Living and Participation (ARRT): Collaborating with Stakeholders to Create Meaningful Change in Columbus, OH. Please complete this form if you would like your job posted. Positions will remain on the website for 90 days. | | Funding | | Application Deadline: May 7, 2025
Award Ceiling: $600,000 The William T. Grant Foundation invites applications for its Research Grants on Reducing Inequality program, which supports research that aims to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5 to 25 in the United States. Studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins are prioritized. Through the program, grants of up to $600,000 for up to three years will be awarded in support of descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality; intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality; and studies that improve the measurement of inequality in ways that can enhance the work of researchers, practitioners, or policy makers. | Letters of Intent Deadline: May 13, 2025
Award Ceiling: TBD The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Online System opened on April 1 for submissions of Letters of Intent (LOI) for the Cycle 2 2025 Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Topical PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA). This PFA seeks to fund study proposals that focus on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). Compared to people without IDD, a higher proportion of people with IDD have co-occurring physical and mental health conditions and unmet healthcare needs. This opportunity aims to fund the comparison of interventions encountered by individuals of all ages who have IDD. Comparisons can be clinical interventions or systems approaches and can include pharmacological or non-pharmacological interventions. | | Resources | | The latest National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) report revealed employment indicators for people with disabilities showing a modest gain in March, with the employment-to-population ratio rising by 0.4 percentage points. While not a dramatic increase, and still well below historic highs, this marks continued stability in labor market engagement for people with disabilities. Labor force participation also saw a slight gain, holding steady near 38 percent—a level that has become the new normal over the past 12 to 18 months. nTIDE is issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability. | This is Episode 5 of Thrive Dispatches, a podcast from Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities at Georgetown University. In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Andy Arias, whose work spans policy, advocacy, and program development in disability rights. Their conversation explores what it means to thrive at the intersection of disability, cultural identity, and lived experience. Andy brings perspective as a professional in disability policy, as a member of Latino and LGBTQ+ communities, and as someone who has lived with cerebral palsy since birth. The discussion challenges conventional thinking about disability, presenting it not as a deficit or tragedy, but as a cultural identity that will touch all of our lives.
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