{"id":577,"date":"2016-08-19T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/?p=577"},"modified":"2016-08-19T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:27:31","slug":"spark-uw-attends-the-tri-cities-12th-annual-northwest-autism-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/2016\/08\/19\/spark-uw-attends-the-tri-cities-12th-annual-northwest-autism-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"SPARK: UW attends the Tri-Cities 12th Annual Northwest Autism Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, our SPARK study (www.SPARKforAutism.org\/UW<\/a>) coordinator, Emily, visited the Tri-Cities for three days to spread awareness about the SPARK project.\u00a0 Her first day was spent at the ARC of Tri-Cities, where she met with ARC staff members and the ARC\u2019s Parent-to-Parent group, which is a support group for parents of children with special needs.\u00a0 Emily gave a presentation to the meeting attendees about the history of autism genetics research and about the SPARK study.\u00a0 She showed families how to register for the project online and she answered questions about how SPARK intends to help families impacted by autism.<\/p>\n

Emily spent the last two days of her trip in the Tri-Cities at the 12th<\/sup> Annual Northwest Autism Conference.\u00a0 This conference is meant for families, providers, and educators and provides tools and information on autism.\u00a0 At the conference, Emily had a vendor table and displayed SPARK materials.\u00a0 Families and providers were able to approach Emily with questions about the SPARK study and about autism research in general.\u00a0 She even helped some families register for SPARK on the spot!\u00a0 The conference was a great success!\u00a0 See below for pictures of Emily\u2019s SPARK vendor table and of the conference poster.\u00a0 If you are interested in joining UW\/SCAC\u2019s more than 600 SPARK families, go to www.SPARKforAutism.org\/UW<\/a> to register or call Emily at 206-987-7917<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Last week, our SPARK study (www.SPARKforAutism.org\/UW) coordinator, Emily, visited the Tri-Cities for three days to spread awareness about the SPARK project.\u00a0 Her first day was spent at the ARC of Tri-Cities, where she met with ARC staff members and the ARC\u2019s Parent-to-Parent group, which is a support group for parents of children with special needs.\u00a0 … Continue reading SPARK: UW attends the Tri-Cities 12th Annual Northwest Autism Conference<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle-childrens-autism-center","category-spark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rablab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}