The Community Impact Grant Program, which is a part of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Wisconsin Partnership Program, recently awarded the Forest County Potawatomi Community and academic partner Lily Wagner, PhD, BCBA, director of the Waisman Center’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic and clinical psychologist, a $500,000 grant to start developing strategies to improve access to early autism diagnosis and intervention for indigenous populations.
Autism
Lauren Bishop, PhD – Slide of the Week
Processing neural activity to reconstruct network connectivity is a central focus of neuroscience, yet the spatiotemporal requisites of biological nervous systems are challenging for current neuronal sensing modalities.
Karla Ausderau, PhD – Slide of the Week
Autistic children experience high rates of feeding challenges, negatively affecting their health, eating patterns, and social eating experiences.
Maureen S. Durkin, PhD, DrPH – Slide of the Week
Prior literature has explored the prevalence of motor impairments in autistic individuals, but estimates come from clinical samples, convenience samples, or small sample sizes, limiting generalizability
Leann Smith DaWalt, PhD – Slide of the Week
Autistic adults experience challenges in maintaining employment; however, little is known about patterns of competitive employment through late midlife. This longitudinal study examined the change in hours of competitive employment for a cohort of autistic adults over a 22-year period.
Xinyu Zhao, PhD – Slide of the Week
Fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein 1 protein (FMRP) deficiency leads to fragile X syndrome (FXS), an autism spectrum disorder.
Early feeding challenges predict later feeding challenge’s type and severity in autistic children
Feeding challenges seen in an autistic child’s first few years can help predict the type and severity of feeding challenges the child may experience later on.
At UW-Madison, autistic students navigate personal, classroom obstacles
There are 99 UW-Madison students on the autism spectrum, according to the McBurney Disability Resource Center’s 2022-23 annual report.
Waisman postdoctoral fellow receives prestigious Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award
Yu (Kristy) Guo, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Waisman investigator Xinyu Zhao, PhD, professor of neuroscience, was recently selected to receive the prestigious Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award.
Barriers and facilitators of inclusive healthcare for autistic adults call for a system-level approach to improving health outcomes
Barriers to accessing inclusive healthcare for autistic adults