Aligning Evidence-Based Practices Across Home and School
In November, OAR’s Board of Directors authorized funding for eight applied autism research studies in 2022. These new grants, totaling $313,712, bring OAR’s total…
Targeting Anxiety Treatment for Young Autistic Children
Recent data suggests that 40% of autistic children under the age of 7 have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety can exacerbate autism symptoms, such as…
Improving Suicide Risk Screening for Autistic Youth
According to a report by the United Health Foundation released in early October, suicides among adolescents ages 15 to 19 jumped 29% over…
Training Community Care Staff in Evidence-Based Practices
It is expected that the number of autistic youths transitioning from school-based services will increase by 123% in this decade. Current estimates indicate that…
Can Telehealth Expand the Reach of Behavioral Interventions?
In November 2020, OAR’s board of directors authorized funding for a one-year study of a telehealth parent training program that parents could access…
Mental Health Support Intervention Shows Promise
In 2021, Vanessa Bal, Ph.D., an associate professor and the Karmazin & Lillard Chair in Adult Autism at Rutgers, and Evan Kleiman, Ph.D.,…
Teaching Autistic Children Two Languages
Since as many as 21% of school-age children in the United States speak a language other than English at home, it is likely…
Factors in Successful Employment
For this Research Review, OAR is featuring a study not funded by OAR, “[I] don’t wanna just be like a cog in…
Improving Health in Autistic Children
As many as 18.5% of children in the United States are obese. Evidence suggests the percentage may be even higher among autistic children due…
Outpatient Mental Health Crisis Screening
Roughly 70% of autistic children have at least one co-occurring psychiatric diagnosis, and over 30% have two or more. Rates of problem behaviors are…
Care Coordination for Minimally Verbal Youth
Autistic people often have complex healthcare needs that increase their risk of poorer health outcomes. For the roughly one-quarter to one-third of transition-age autistic…
Culturally Adapted Parent Training
Early identification and treatment can prevent challenging behavior from escalating and becoming firmly established in autistic children. Decades of collaborative research in the United…
