The purpose of the Autism Spectrum Disorders Research (ASD) program is to contribute to the improvement of developmental, cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes of students identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from preschool through Grade 12 by (1) exploring malleable factors relevant to comprehensive preschool and school-based interventions (e.g., intervention practices) that are associated with better developmental, cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes for students identified with ASD, as well as mediators or moderators of the relations between these factors and student outcomes, for the purpose of identifying potential targets of intervention; (2) developing innovative comprehensive preschool and school-based interventions or modifying existing interventions to make them comprehensive to address the developmental, cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional needs of students identified with ASD; (3) establishing the efficacy of fully developed comprehensive preschool and school-based interventions for students identified with ASD; (4) evaluating the effectiveness of comprehensive preschool and school-based interventions for student with ASD when implemented at scale; and (5) developing and validating measures of developmental, cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes that can be used by practitioners to monitor progress and evaluate outcomes for students identified with ASD.
The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of comprehensive programs and assessments that have been documented to be effective for improving the developmental, cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes of students identified with ASD from preschool through Grade 12.
Amount: $100,000 - $1.2m (3 years)
Date due: September 16, 2010
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