WACO, Texas (March 31, 2021) – As National Autism Awareness Month begins in April, two Baylor University
School of Education faculty members have received grant awards from the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to fund research and training in behavioral intervention practices that improve outcomes for children with autism.
Tonya Davis, Ph.D., BS ’02, MS ’04, professor of educational psychology and director of the special education program in the Baylor School of Education, was awarded a $474,843 grant to provide intervention training to teachers who serve students with autism in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Stephanie Gerow, Ph.D., assistant professor of special education, was awarded a $369,699 grant to provide intervention training to parents.
Sergio Liden Releases Children s Book to Help Families Understand and Embrace Autism
Linden s book was inspired by his firsthand experience of having an autistic son.by BWW News Desk
With only a few weeks away from Autism Awareness month, Dad s Publishing is setting out to help children who have an autistic brother or sister better understand their sibling as well as their own feelings with the release of their third children s book, His Own Way, on March 22, 2021. Their newest book, by children s book author and human rights activist Sergio Liden was inspired by his firsthand experience of having an autistic son. The book will be available on Amazon and everywhere books are sold.
Stoneham Police Department to support Autism Awareness Month
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Officers from the Stoneham Police Department will be wearing autism awareness patches on their uniforms as part of Autism Awareness Month this April.
National Autism Awareness Month represents an opportunity to promote autism awareness, autism acceptance and to draw attention to the thousands facing an autism diagnosis each year.
SPD autism awareness patches will be sold starting March 1 for $10 each at the police station dispatch window, 47 Central St., Stoneham, or by mailing a check written to PSOA, 47 Central Street, Stoneham, MA 02180, Att: Erin Sinclair. Mailers should enclose a postage paid return address envelope.
Starkville-Based Company Heads to Sesame Street
Special to Delta Business Journal
What began as a college project leveraging technology to spark up parties and other gatherings has led to an entrepreneurial Mississippi startup company lighting up lives through creativity, technology and philanthropy.
Hagan Walker and Anna Barker are the founders of Glo, an innovative technology company based in Starkville, where the two attended Mississippi State University. The pair recently signed a licensing agreement with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, to produce an imaginative toy that brightens play and bath time for children.
As budding entrepreneurs in MSU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach, the duo was working on a senior project when they hit on an innovative technology that generates light when mixed with liquid. They leveraged the discovery to create colorful cubes that, when dropped in drinks, light up in bright party colors.
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Virtual History Book Club
The History Book Club meets monthly to discuss compelling fiction and non-fiction books related to historical figures, events or eras. We meet on the first Thursday of the month at 6:00 p.m. We are currently meeting on Zoom. Please join us!
March 4th– “Valley Forge” by John Drury
April 1st– Since April is National Autism Awareness Month we will be reading a biography of an any person on the Autism Spectrum (each person picks their own book)
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