(From AutismArtist.org) AutismArtist.org, a not-for profit organization founded in December, 2009, announced today that it had begun accepting artwork from children with autism. One child’s artwork will be featured each day at www.autismartist.org. T-shirts, sweatshirts, bags and hats featuring the artwork will be auctioned online to raise funds for educational and other programs for [...]
Archive for February, 2010
AutismArtist.Org Collecting Artwork; Sales to Benefit Educational Programs
Posted in autism, education, tagged art, autism, education, special education on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ASF Offers IMFAR Grants to Autism Stakeholders
Posted in autism, autism grants, IMFAR, tagged autism, autism grants, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, IMFAR on February 11, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The Autism Science Foundation announced today that it is offering a limited number of grants to parents of children with autism, individuals with autism, and other stakeholders to support attendance at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), to be held in Philadelphia, May 20-22, 2010. Awards of up to $1000 can be used to cover [...]
ASF Pre-Doctoral Grant Recipents Announced
Posted in autism, autism grants, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, Treatment, tagged autism, autism research, autism science, Autism Science Foundation, autism treatment on February 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Autism Science Foundation announced today that it had awarded doctoral training fellowships to six pre-doctoral students committed to pursuing careers in basic and clinical scientific research relevant to autism spectrum disorders. In all, $180,000 in grants will be distributed to student/mentor teams conducting research in autism treatment, biomarkers, animal models, and epidemiology. “We are [...]
Time to Regroup on Autism
Posted in autism, autism research, Autism Science Foundation, vaccines, tagged Alison Singer, autism, Autism and Vaccines, autism research on February 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Autism Science Foundation President Alison Singer has an OpEd on CNN.com/Opinion about the medical journal The Lancet ‘s decision to retract the controversial 1998 paper that first linked the MMR vaccine to autism and set off an unfounded fear of vaccination. Singer says new research has been overshadowed as some cling to the discredited theory that vaccines cause [...]





