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Alberta Centre for Child, Family & Community Research

American Academy of Pediatrics: Developmental and behavioural screening resources.

Association for Science in Autism Treatment

AUTISM A.L.A.R.M.: Developed collaboratively by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Medical Home Initiatives, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and First Signs, Inc., helps primary care physicians to identify and refer children at risk for autism.

Autism around the Globe is an interactive web-based project which focuses on raising public awareness of how autism affects those in different parts of the world.

Autism Collaboration: Provides information to parents and professionals and reports research on therapeutic applications. Includes an overview of autism, accounts of subgroups and related disorders, issues, interventions, Temple Grandin's experience and advice, a sibling center, interviews and links to other Internet resources.

Autism: Do Environmental Factors Play a Role in Causation? Ted Schettler MD, MPH, Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Networ,k June 2004.

The Autism Research Center: The ARC is situated within the School of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry, Section of Developmental Psychiatry, at the University of Cambridge. It brings together scientists working on autism from around the University of Cambridge and the Clinical School. It also has major collaborations with other universities, and works closely with clinical and advocacy services. The ARC has over 30 research scientists and support staff, drawn from a range of disciplines (cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, paediatrics, neonatology, genetics, and biochemistry).

Autism Research Institute (ARI): ARI conducts research and disseminates information as to the causes of autism and methods of preventing and treating it. ARI makes available packages of advice on all aspects of autism, diagnostic criteria and various treatments and therapies.

Autism Research Training Program.

Autism Society of America: The UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute: Uniquely Designed to Study Gene-environmental Interactions in Autism [PDF], By Robert Hendren, D.O.

Autism Speaks: A foudation dedicated to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism; to raising public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society; and to bringing hope to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder. Read Autism Speaks newsletter: e-Speaks

Autism Spectrum Disorders - Canadian American Research Consortium (ASD-CARC): The ASD-CARC Team is a group of more than 60 researchers, clinicians and parents from across Canada and the U.S. that have come together to form a multidisciplinary Autism Spectrum Disorders Canadian-American Research Consortium (ASD-CARC), headed by Jeanette J.A. Holden, PhD, from Queen's University.  

Brainwaves: Johns Hopkins Neurology and Neurosurgery

Canadian Autism Intervention Research Network (CAIRN) [ENG] [FRE]

Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation (CPRF)

CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research: Located at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanChild is a multidisciplinary research group researching and disseminating information on childhood disabilities, with the goal of improving care and services to children with disabilities and their families. The group also encourages and supports the development of new researchers in the
field.

Center for Disease Control (CDC): Autism Information Centre (includes NIH information)

Cochrane Child Health Field: Denise Thomson, MA, MBA, Administrator. Evidence-Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal (www.evidence-basedchildhealth.com) Office located at: Alberta Research Centre for Child Health Evidence (ARCHE), Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta Room 9419, 4th Floor, Aberhart Centre One, 11402 University Ave NW, Edmonton AB T6G 2J3  CANADA, Tel:  1.780.492.8266     Fax:  1.780.407.6435, E-Mail:  denise.thomson@ualberta.ca The mission of the Child Health Field is to ensure that children and adolescents receive effective interventions for the best health outcomes based on up-to-date evidence.

Cognitive Strengths in Autism: Neurodiversity.com resource page.

Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) A Project of the Autism Research Institute

Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI). A network of research sites that will enroll and follow 1,200 mothers of children with autism at the start of another pregnancy and document the newborn child’s development through three years of age.

First Signs Organization

Fragile X Research Foundation of Canada

FRAXA Research Foundation

From Microscope to Stethoscope 2008 lectures: Autism demystified. Dr. E. Fombonn, McGill University Health Centre.

Global Initiative on Children's Environmental Health Indicators (CEHI)

The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) is a scientific and professional organization devoted to advancing knowledge about autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), including autism, Apserger syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (PDD NOS).

Institute for Functional Medicine

Intute: Provides free access to hand-selected and evaluated Internet resources for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the Health and Life Sciences.

Inventory of Autism Research in Canada: Report of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research Group, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry (Division of Developmental Disabilities), Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2 dmacfabe@uwo.ca

Manitoba Institute of Child Health
The Manitoba Institute of Child Health fosters research for children and youth and the development and application of treatments and cures.

Michael Smith Foundation

M.I.N.D. (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) Institute, The University of California, Davis.

McGill University Health Centre.

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

The National Autistic Society (U.K.)

National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) - Autism Page

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY):

New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities.

The Offord Centre

Ontario Adult Autism Research and Support Network: Focus on adult autism issues, especially in Ontario, Canada.

The Organization for Autism Research (OAR). Focuses on applied research.

Project to Search For Autism Gene

Public Health Agency of Canada: Q&A response regarding thimerosal in vaccines and autism

Schafer Autism Report: Includes research, treatment, advocacy, news and a monthly calendar of upcoming autism seminars, conferences and events.

Studies in Autism/PDD - The Research Page of Dr. Peter Szatmari

University of Waterloo Centre for Child Studies.

United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF): UMDF aims to promote research and education for the diagnosis, treatment and cure of mitochondrial disorders and to provide support to affected individuals and families.

Wiley's Interscience site: Features over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases. Many current research articles on autism… (search autism)

Yale Child Study Centre - Autism Group

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Prevalence/Epidemiology

Autism Spectrum Disorders Canadian-American Research Consortium (ASD-CARC).

Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM).

Coleen Boyle Testimony on CDC Activities: At the end of FY 2001, CDC funded 4 Centers of Excellence in Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology.

CDC: Children's Longitudinal Development Study.

The Epidemiology of Autism in California, Byrd, RS, 2002.

iCARE: International Collaboration for Autism Registry Epidemiology.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology (CADDE).

Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program (MADDSP): [Read a summary of the paper about ASD in metropolitan Atlanta]  [Read more about MADDSP].

US-based National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) and the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) team up to do research.

Prevalence of Autism in Brick Township, New Jersey, 1998 [PDF].

View state-specific IDEA information for children ages 3-5 years.

View state-specific IDEA information for children ages 6-21 years.

The West Virginia Autism Training Center Marshall University College of Education and Human Services.

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Autism Research Funding (Canada)

Autism Research Training Program

Autism Speaks

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Canadian Nurses Association - Nursing Research Funds

Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation.

Centre of Excellence for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs

Craig Foundation: 5885 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1Y3

International Society for Autism Research.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC): Program Guides Page.

NeuroScience Canada

Ontario Mental Health Research Fund

Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

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Autism Research Funding (U.S.)

Autism Speaks.

The Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism: Professional football player Doug Flutie has established a foundation aimed at funding research into autism, and offering financial support to disadvantaged families coping with the high costs of caring for children affected by autism.

Foundation for Autism Research & Remediation (FARR): Request for Proposals | Email: administrator@farrsite.org

MIND Institute.

Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Autism Funding Opportunities Page.