Autism Spectrum Disorders: Special Education Research
IES is currently accepting applications for this research program. For your convenience, you may download the full FY2009 Education Research RFA.
Download the full 84.324 Special Education Research RFA
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Note: FY 2009 applicants that include subawards for work conducted at collaborating institutions should use this template to provide subaward budget information.
Download, view & print the form as an Excel file (164 KB).
Description of Research Program
The purpose of the Autism Spectrum Disorders Research (ASD) program is to contribute to the improvement of cognitive, communicative, academic, social, and behavioral outcomes of students identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from preschool through Grade 12 by (1) identifying comprehensive preschool and school-based interventions that improve cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes of students identified with ASD and the factors that mediate and moderate the effects of such interventions; (2) developing new, or modifying existing comprehensive preschool and school-based interventions to address the cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional needs of students identified with ASD; (3) establishing the efficacy of fully developed comprehensive preschool and school-based interventions for students identified with ASD; and (5) developing and validating measures in cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional skills that can be used by practitioners to monitor progress and evaluate outcomes for students identified with ASD.
The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of comprehensive programs and assessments that have been documented to be effective for improving the cognitive, communicative, academic, social, behavioral, and functional outcomes of students identified with ASD from preschool through Grade 12.
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