President Donald Trump’s proposed cut for the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) 2018 budget could stall advances in research for generations, researchers say. This would dramatically cut funding for Autism Research. Read Spectrum’s article about the budget cut’s below:
Autism researchers blast budget cuts for U.S. funding agency
“WAAAlk for Autism is an inclusive and family friendly celebration to provide resource information for families, raise funds for Washington Autism Alliance & Advocacy (WAAA), and celebrate World Autism Awareness Day on Sunday, April 2nd. Join WAAA as we raise funds and awareness to support improved insurance access and effective services in schools and communities for kids with autism and developmental disabilities across Washington State.
We are gearing up for our WAAAlk for Autism event coming up on April 2nd, 2017 with our goal to raise $75,000 so WAAA can continue to help and support families and individuals touched by Autism throughout our state. Each Champion and their team will set their own goal in honor of the families that WAAA continues to support.”
The Bernier Lab and Seattle Children’s Autism Center will host a table and this event with information about the center and the lab’s research opportunities!
For more information go to: http://www.washingtonautismadvocacy.org/updates/waaalkforautism/
Sunday April 2nd, 2017
Marina Park
25 Lakeshore Plaza Drive
Kirkland, WA 98033
10:00am – 2:00pm
The walk will be held in Downtown Kirkland on Lake Street. Our fun fair and resource booths will be located in Marina Park
One of our RABLAB postdocs, Dr. Caitlin Hudac, recently traveled to San Antonio Texas for the 50th Annual Gatlinburg Conference On Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The theme for this year’s conference was “Outcome Measures, Biomarkers, and Treatment Possibilities”. Dr. Hudac participated in a symposium highlighting EEG as a tool for evaluating biomarkers with colleagues from UCLA (Drs. Shafali Jeste, Sandra Loo, Charlotte DiStefano, Abby Dickinson). Dr. Hudac’s work described overly responsive ERP patterns of attention and learning associated with ASD and comorbid intellectual disability. From a genetics-first approach, she noted that this pattern was particularly severe in children who have a rare genetic variant that impacts early brain development. Keep posted as we prepare these results for publication!
February’s SPARK webinar from Wendy Chung is titled; “Is Autism Genetic?” The event is on Tuesday, February 21 from 10-11am PST.
We are excited to announce that The Annual Psychiatry and autism report is now ready!
You can download the Autism Clinical Care Research Report from the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2015 & 2016 by following this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwVRQ8u5irfabnZRQ3VDRE0xZ0k/view
We want to share with our blog followers a great short story about Arthur and his family’s experience in Autism research. This story was that was first posted on the Seattle Children’s Autism Blog.