Family Support 101: Understanding Policies that Support Family and Family Caregivers for Trainees
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
AUCD hosted a webinar for trainees to learn about policies that support family and family caregivers. The participants received an overview and history of family support, current needs of families and family caregivers and policies and practices of Respite.
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AIR-P Presents: IDD Curricula in the Health Professions: Current State and Future Directions
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
4:00pm ET - 5:00pm ET
While most medical students report that they want to learn more about seeing patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and feel underprepared to serve these patients when they graduate from their programs, the actual amount and quality of IDD-focused curricular content in medical and dental school curricula greatly varies between institutions. This webinar will present data from a recent WITH-funded research project examining the development of inclusive IDD curricula at medical and dental schools, and will also introduce an AADMD initiative, NICHE medical, that coordinates and supports medical schools who are working to develop innovative, community-engaged IDD curricula.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
Join the AUCD Network and HSRI in a conversation with HCBS users, researchers, and other stakeholders.
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Medicaid Education 101 for Trainees: Learn About Medicaid and Home and Community Based Services
Thursday, September 21, 2023
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
AUCD hosted an educational webinar for trainees to learn about the structure and financing of the Medicaid program and Home and Community-Based Services. The speakers provided an overview of the Medicaid program and its structure and financing. The webinar also provided an overview of what is happening in Congress and the Administration regarding the Medicaid program.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
4:00pm ET - 5:00pm ET
This webinar will explore findings from the latest National Autism Indicators Report (NAIR) focused on health care in autistic people during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and health care among autistic children and adults. To build a comprehensive picture, we included various data sources.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
4:00pm ET - 5:00pm ET
Dr. Rujuta Bhatt Wilson will share Neurology Node Updates from the AIR-P project. The webinar will include updates on intervention studies, examining neurologic conditions in genetic Neurodevelopmental syndromes, and examination of the prevalence of co-occurring neurologic and neurodegenerative diseases in autism in adulthood.
Read More >AIR-P Presents: Autistic Stakeholder's Perspectives of a Flourishing Survey Measure
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
4:00pm ET - 5:00pm ET
Dr. Samantha Ross will share updates on a current AIR-P Scholars Project that has engaged autistic youth and their parents as stakeholders to evaluate the construct validity of flourishing items within the National Survey of Children's Health.
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NTDC Presents: Developing Inclusive Training Programs Through Universal Design for Learning
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
3:00 PM ET - 4:30 PM ET
Join us for an interactive discussion on universal design for learning (UDL) and learn how your program can develop a more inclusive training approach by applying UDL principles. The panel will highlight two training programs in the AUCD Network with experience applying UDL in their work. Come prepared with questions and plan to participate in a facilitated activity! We highly encourage training programs to come ready to share their program's approach to UDL and/or bring a document or resource on which they would like to get feedback on from a UDL lens.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
4:00pm ET - 5:00pm ET
AIR-P is glad to announce a date for the rescheduled webinar: Mind the NIH-Funding Gap: Structural Discrimination in Physical Health-Related Research for Cognitively Able Autistic Adults. Topics will include: Importance of addressing physical health disparity conditions in autistic adults Structural discrimination in NIH-funded studies on physical health disparity conditions in autistic adults Description of conflicts of interest within an NIH-funded culture of academia that contribute to systemic structural discrimination in funding policies.
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AIR-P Presents: Genomics for the well-being of autistic people: challenges and recommendations
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
4:00pm ET - 5:00pm ET
In this webinar Dr. Heini Natri will discuss the topic that equitable and just genetic research requires an examination of the ethical questions pertaining to marginalized communities. Many have expressed concerns over current practices of autism-related genetic research, urging the field to shift towards practices that ensure benefits and protect against harm. As an interdisciplinary working group of autistic and non-autistic individuals, we have developed guidelines for leveraging genetics to enhance the quality of life, health, and autonomy of autistic persons.
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