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OAR is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Applied Research Competition. At the recommendation of the Scientific Council, OAR’s Board of Directors authorized funding for eight studies starting in January 2019. These new grants totaling $228,036 bring OAR’s total research funding to over $3.7 million since 2002.

OAR received an initial 152 applications during the preproposal round. Of those, OAR invited 57 applicants to submit full proposals. Of the 55 full proposals OAR received, 25 advanced to the final round. OAR’s Scientific Council narrowed down the selection and identified eight research studies that merited applied research funding, sending those on to the Board for authorization.

OAR congratulates the 2018 Applied Research Grant recipients:

• The Role of Schools in Adult Outcomes for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

          Connie Anderson, Ph.D. and Caroline Wood, Ph.D.
          Towson University

• Safe Dating for Youth with ASD

          Megan Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE and Emily Rothman, ScD
          Boston Medical Center Corporation

• An Ethnographic Study of Emergency Department Encounters for Patients with ASD

          Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, MD, MPH
          Boston Medical Center

• Measuring Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Use and Outcomes for Transition-aged Youth with ASD

          Laura Graham Holmes, Ph.D.
          J. Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University

• Care-coordination Factors Affecting Postsecondary Outcomes for Minimally Verbal Young Adults with Autism

          Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, Ph.D
          Paul Shattuck, Ph.D., Renee Turchi, Ph.D., and Jessica Walton, B.A.
          Drexel University and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children

• Generalization of Technology-based Mathematics and Social Skills Instruction for Students with Autism

          Jenny Root, Ph.D.
          Florida State University

• Modification of One-Session Phobia Treatment for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Study

         Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D
         Child Study Center, Virginia Tech

• Determining Intervention Targets to Promote Positive Trajectories of Health for Children with ASD

          Kerri Staples, Ph.D.
          Center on Physical Activity & Health in Pediatric Disabilities, University of Michigan

Read more about the newly funded studies. Beginning in January, OAR will feature a research preview of each study in “The OARacle.”