SchaferAutismReport: CDC Awards UA $1.7 Million For Autism Research

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CDC Awards UA $1.7 Million

For Autism Research

11 Sites Nationwide Receive Funding For Four-Year Program To Count Autism

By Innes Arizona Daily Star xrl.in/5j70

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention is awarding $1.7 million to the University of Arizona for autism

research.

The Steele Children's Research Center at the

UA College of Medicine is one of 11 sites nationwide receiving money as part

of a four-year program, UA officials announced this week.

Local researchers plan on using the money to

continue their work on the identification of children with autism spectrum

disorders and intellectual abilities, a UA press release says.

Dr. Cunniff, a professor of

pediatrics at the UA College of Medicine, is the principal investigator of

the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program, which is a

partnership between the UA and the CDC.

Also leading the local research team are

epidemiologist Sydney Pettygrove, an assistant professor at the UA's Mel and

Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health; and Dr. Sydney Rice, an assistant

professor of pediatrics at the UA College of Medicine.

The other 10 study areas are Alabama,

Arkansas, Colorado, land, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South

Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin.

The sites are part of the Autism and

Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network that will provide comparable,

population-based estimates of the number of children who have autism and

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