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Archive for the ‘Simons Foundation’ Category

Simons Foundation announces RFA for Explorer Awards

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

The Simons Foundation is a large source of funding for autism research. They have posted a RFA (request for application) for their Explorer Awards RFA This award program is designed to enhance our existing support of autism research by providing timely resources to enable focused experiments highly relevant to our mission. A deeper understanding of [...]

Workshop report: Regression in autism

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Simons Foundation has an article on their recent workshop on regression in autism. Here are the first two paragraphs: A number of studies suggest that a subset of children with autism make significant social and language gains in the first year of life, and then experience a dramatic loss of skills. As infants, these children [...]

Simons Foundation: Notable papers of 2011

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

The Simons Foundation has an article discussing their choices of Notable papers of 2011. Below are their choices and links to the Simons Foundation blog (SFARI) articles which discuss them. Also given are links to pubmed for the original research articles. Study finds high rate of autism in South Korea Pubmed Family sequencing study boosts [...]

IAN Network Launches Critical Survey on Autism & Wandering

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

I received the following message from the Autism Science Foundation. The message discusses the survey to collect data on wandering by autistics. To participate, you need to register at the IAN Project website. Today, the Interactive Autism Network (IAN) with support from leading autism advocacy groups including the Autism Science Foundation, launched the first major [...]

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