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HCP Live: Melissa Villodas mentioned as among the authors of study about Black youth and females with developmental disabilities facing a greater chance of being placed in foster care.

February 20, 2024

Black Youth, Females with Autism Have Greater Odds of Being Placed in Foster Care.
Disability Insider: Melissa L. Villodas quoted in article about study published in Journal of the American Medical Association about barriers to services for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the foster care system.

February 14, 2024

Rising number of at-risk youth with autism and intellectual disability in US foster care.
Striving for a better understanding of late autism diagnosis

October 21, 2022

George Mason University researcher Allison Jack recently received an Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) Network award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research efforts aimed at understanding why some autistic individuals receive very late diagnoses, or none at all.
Mason team works to identify more objective evaluations to diagnose autism

July 20, 2022

Jack is a member of the Gender Exploration of Neurogenetics and Development to Advanced Autism Research Consortium, a National Institutes of Health-funded Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) network focused on learning more about how sex and gender relate to biology, behavior, and the well-being of autistic children, teenagers, and young adults.
An online window into autism

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