2023

November
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- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute Awarded Over $2 Million for Longitudinal Study Following Younger Siblings of Autistic Children
  
  November 02, 2023
  Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was awarded a $2.1 million National Institutes of Health Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program grant to continue follow-up of children enrolled in three cohort studies dedicated to understanding outcomes among younger siblings of autistic children.
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October
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- Can We Trust Autism Information on TikTok? Not Always.
  
  October 23, 2023
  Researchers from Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute have examined the reach and accuracy of TikTok videos providing informational content about autism and found that most of the information provided does not align with current clinical knowledge.
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August
Highlighted Articles
- Nearly 99% of Autistic Adults Not Receiving Public Employment Services in the U.S.
  
  August 09, 2023
  From 2008-16 an estimated 1.98 million autistic adults — or 99%, of those who likely needed employment services — did not receive support through Medicaid or Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, a new study from Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute finds.
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July
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- National Autism Indicators Report Calls for Health Care Policy Improvements for Future Public Health Emergencies
  
  July 31, 2023
  In the latest edition of the National Autism Indicators Report series, researchers at Drexel University’s Policy and Analytics Center (PAC) at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute examined changes in access and disruptions to health care services for autistic children and adults during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April
Highlighted Articles
- Autistic Voices Needed: A.J. Drexel Autism Institute Awarded Grant for Innovative Autistic Support Services Research
  
  April 18, 2023
  The Policy, Analytics and Community Research Program at Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute and Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion collaborated to enhance a unique intervention optimizing supports delivered by autistic adults to other autistic adults and expand the intervention in Philadelphia.
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March
Highlighted Articles
- Latest National Autism Indicators Report Explores Autistic Individuals’ Use of Medicaid Across the Lifespan
  
  March 14, 2023
  In the latest edition of the National Autism Indicators Report series, researchers at Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute explore how autistic individuals use Medicaid and how their service use changes across the lifespan – from infants to older adults – using data from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) from 2008-2016.
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- Autistic Adolescents are More Likely to Leave Medicaid as They Enter Adulthood in States Without Medicaid Waivers
  
  March 13, 2023
  Recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University examined whether state-level waivers were associated with reduced risk of Medicaid disenrollment among autistic transition-age youth.
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February
Highlighted Articles
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute Finds Strong Performance of Autism Screener When Used as Intended
  
  February 20, 2023
  Newly published in JAMA Pediatrics, a study by Andrea Wieckowski, PhD, Diana Robins, PhD and their co-authors systematically reviewed and analyzed factors that may lead to different performance estimates of the M-CHAT(-R/F) tests. the most commonly used autism-specific screening tool for young children.
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