New Research
Grants Awarded for Supporting People with Psychiatric Disabilities and
Autism
Below are highlights of some of the various projects set to
begin:
- Efficacy of the ASD Screening and Parent
ENgagement (ASPEN) Intervention Program in Low-Resource
Communities -- Awarded to Texas State University ($200,000 a
year for a period of three years) in partnership with community
agencies in the central Texas region to enhance the professional
capacity for screening of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and
implement and assess the efficacy of a parent education and coaching
intervention. The goal of this project is to examine the efficacy of
the ASD Screening and Parent ENgagement (ASPEN) intervention, a
culturally-informed parent-mediated intervention program when
delivered to caregivers and children at risk for ASD who reside in
low-resource households. Expected outcomes include: 1) the ASPEN
intervention will be culturally and linguistically-informed; 2) the
ASPEN intervention will be acceptable, feasible, and efficacious in
low-resource communities; 3) children at risk for ASD who participate
in the intervention will exhibit significant gains in social
communication and reduction in challenging behavior; and 4) caregivers
who receive the intervention will exhibit significant gains in
knowledge and skills related to their child’s development and report
significant reductions in parenting stress.
- The Online
and Applied System for Intervention Skills (OASIS) - Scaling-up! -- Awarded to the University of Kansas Medical
Center Research Institute ($200,000 a year for a period of five
years). Through a partnership with previous NIDILRR project
participants, this project will follow standard implementation
guidelines to scale-up OASIS to the broader community. This will focus
on NIDILRR’s outcome domains of community living and participation by
training previous NIDILRR-funded OASIS service providers to train others
(train-the-trainer) to effectively use the OASIS model to teach
parents to improve the child’s level of independence and overall
well-being within the community. Anticipated outcomes of this project
include: increasing 1) parent and child access to evidence-based
practice, 2) the number of individuals at key agencies that serve as
OASIS trainers, and 3) the number of OASIS coaches at agencies serving
children with autism and their families, as well as the development of
a web-based portal for agencies, coaches, and families to access.
- Post-Doctoral
Research Training Program to Advance Competitive Integrated Employment
for people with Psychiatric Disabilities -- Awarded to Yale University's Program for
Recovery and Community Health ($150,000 a year for a period of five
years) in partnership with the State of Connecticut Departments of
Mental Health and Addiction Services, Labor, and Bureau of
Rehabilitation Services to support the establishment of a national
program of excellence for postdoctoral training in recovery-oriented
research to advance competitive integrated employment among persons
with psychiatric disabilities. This program will also provide training
and mentoring to, and graduate, a cadre of three qualified researchers
who will learn how to design, conduct, and disseminate rigorous,
innovative, scientifically meritorious, and influential research on
effective strategies for successfully employing persons with
psychiatric disabilities in competitive integrated work settings.
- Helping
Young Adults Succeed at Work and School Through IPS Supported
Employment --
Awarded to Westat ($200,000 a year for a period of three years) to
evaluate the effectiveness of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
for young adults with psychiatric disabilities, a priority population
in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. IPS, an
evidence-based model, has not yet been adequately studied in this
population. In collaboration with the IPS Learning Community (a
network comprised of state vocational rehabilitation and mental health
leaders, clients, and others from 24 states and 300 IPS programs),
Westat will conduct a mixed-methods, prospective, one-year cohort
study of 150 young adults (ages 16-24) with psychiatric disabilities
enrolled in 10 established IPS programs in five geographically diverse
states.
Within ACL, NIDILRR works to generate new knowledge and
promote its effective use to improve the abilities of individuals with
disabilities to perform activities of their choice in the community; and to
expand society's capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations
for people with disabilities. NIDILRR conducts its work through grants that
support research and development.
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