Month: February 2023

National Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Development Equity Center Awarded to UConn

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‘At UConn inclusion and belonging is woven into everything we do’

UConn School of Medicine’s Mary Beth Bruder, Ph.D. has been awarded a $10 million federal grant by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education, to provide technical assistance to increase equity in the delivery of early childhood intervention services to infants and young children from diverse backgrounds who have disabilities or developmental delays.

The new Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Development Equity Center is national in scope, and will be working with state systems of early childhood intervention, and institutions of higher education (IHE) who prepare the workforce to provide these services.

$10 Million for National Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Development Equity Center Awarded to UConn

 

More than 1,000 people in CT with autism are on a waiting list for services. Could a change in the law help break that logjam?

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"A bill introduced in the state House of Representatives is short and technical, but it could have major implications for people with autism, more than a thousand of whom are on a waiting list for state services such as housing and personal care.

The bill, "An Act Concerning a Definition for Developmental Disability," would add a definition of the term to the general statutes and change "intellectual disability" to "developmental disability."

Read here: More than 1,000 people in CT with autism are on a waiting list for services. Could a change in the law help break that logjam? – Hartford Courant