… Andy Imparato, Executive Director of AUCD, and Liz Weintraub, Senior Advocacy Specialist at AUCD, presented on Taking Disability Advocacy to the Next Level, a Chicagoland policy event in honor Jewish Disability Awareness Inclusion Month.

[The analysis] revealed significant improvement in child and parent outcomes for the intervention group compared to the control.

It is likely that low-income children and children of color are underdiagnosed for autism, which also implies they are not receiving needed services such as early intervention

Dr. Sandra Magaña of University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Brian Grossman of University of Illinois at Chicago and Randa Abdelrahim, graduate student at University of Illinois at Chicago, presented on the years long process of developing the strategic plan and present highlights of the plan.

This report provides a roadmap for future research on family support for families of people with disabilities and who are aging.

Dr. Burke (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Easterseals and the Family Support Research and Training Center (FSRTC) at the University of Illinois-Chicago have a Request For Applications for community-based organizations interested in implementing the Volunteer Advocacy Project (VAP), a 36 hour advocacy training intervention for individuals who want to become special education advocates.

Trends suggest an increasing share of family caregivers will be in the labor force, facing the dual demands of employment and caregiving responsibilities for relatives or close friends with a serious illness or disability.

On September 24, FSRTC conducted a webinar hosted by The Arc on a strategic plan for family caregiving support research … the plan identifies research topics related to exploration and discovery, services and interventions, and policy.

The aim is to understand the experiences of families who provide supports to a family member with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD).