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From early intervention to teaching adults how to build social skills, experts from the University of Miami can provide individualized plans to support development and care for those on the spectrum.

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Alumna Fajer Almenaie is using her training at the University of Miami to support families and to fight stigmas surrounding autism spectrum disorder in Kuwait.

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Two teams of professors are working to create extended reality applications to help those on the spectrum learn and practice safety and employment skills.

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UM researcher earns award honoring a decade’s worth of scholarship in Applied Behavior Analysis.

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University of Miami and Harvard Medical School researchers are tweaking a standard hearing test to help detect autism at a very early age.

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A graduate of the highly selective Applied Behavior Analysis program, Fajer Almenaie is changing the landscape for children on the autism spectrum in the Middle East.

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PRIME—the Psychology Research Initiative Mentorship Experience Program—was started by the Psychology Department in 1995 with funding provided by NIH and the American Psychological Association, and through the years it has succeeded in its mission to introduce cutting-edge research opportunities to University of Miami undergraduates.

Now the summer program is extending beyond the Coral Gables campus with an inaugural collaboration with Florida A&M University (FAMU). 

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University of Miami researchers who are collaborating on the world’s largest autism research project see promising results in the first study.

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University of Miami experts share tips for parents and families when selecting holiday toys for children on the Autism Spectrum.

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Program to begin in Fall 2016 semester addressing the growing demand for qualified behavioral therapists in the treatment of individuals with autism and other developmental conditions, the Psychology department at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences is implementing a new program for graduate students seeking a professional certificate in Applied Behavioral Analysis.

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