New Research to Practice Brief: Youth with Autism in VR

FROM COMMUNITY INCLUSION: As increasing numbers of youth with autism are accessing Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services, it is important to understand how they are using these services and the relationship of these services to outcomes and costs. A new Research to Practice Brief explores the differences in VR services received by youth with autism compared to youth with other disabilities. Researchers identify services that are most closely associated with an employment outcome for youth with autism, and determine what percentage of people from this group are receiving these successful services.

Major findings show that youth with autism are more likely than youth from other disability groups to receive assessment, job-placement, and on-the-job support services, and that receipt of services such as these are associated with an employment outcome. This New Research to Practice Brief can be downloaded at: http://www.communityinclusion.org/article.php?article_id=309

VCU Autism Spectrum Disorders Webcast

Please join a webcast hosted by SEDL's Vocational Rehabilitation Service Models for Autism Spectrum Disorders Project!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009: Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Autism Spectrum Disorders Career Links. The featured presenter is Jennifer Todd McDonough, M.S., C.R.C., Associate Director of Training for the VCU-RRTC.

The 60-minute webcast will begin at 3:00pm Eastern; 2:00pm Central; 1:00pm Mountain; 12:00pm Pacific; 11:00am Alaska; 9:00am Hawaii. The webcast is presented in collaboration with the Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU) program at Memorial HermanTIRR.
Webcast Registration (no fee to participate): http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SEDL/8ebdc6bec7/b956cadbb5/ab7afad651

NEW VR service Models with Individuals with Autism

The website of the Vocational Rehabilitation Service Models for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders project is now open. You can access the site at:
http://www.autism.sedl.org/
The site contains information about the project's research and dissemination activities, resources available now and ones to be developed, webcast archives, and frequently asked questions. At the website you will also find a form that allows you to subscribe to the project's free E-newsletter. We are pleased to be opening this new website during April, Autism Awareness Month!

The website is a project of SEDL, a private, nonprofit education research, development, and dissemination (RD&D) corporation based in Austin, Texas.