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April 2, 2025
For the past 10 years, members of the autism team, including Ann Sam, Victoria Waters, and Sam Odom, at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute have provided Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules, offering evidence-based practices to support learners on the spectrum from birth to 22 years of age. To celebrate this decade milestone and April’s Autism Acceptance Month, the AFIRM team launched its new website this week.
March 31, 2025
A commitment to vulnerable populations and the systems designed to assist them is shared by FPG Implementation Specialist Lena Harris and FPG Senior Implementation Specialist Robin Jenkins. This is reflected in their work providing implementation support to The Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
March 26, 2025
Developmental psychologist Clare Harrop, PhD, orients her research within this quote from the late renowned developmental psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith, “Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders.” This has led Harrop, a faculty fellow at the FPG and an associate professor in Carolina’s Department of Health Sciences, to study autism as a condition that evolves and changes with development and across key developmental periods.
March 21, 2025
During the 2025 North Carolina Association for Research in Education (NCARE) conference, FPG Implementation Specialist Yolanda Perkins, EdS, and FPG Research Assistant Alicia Reynolds Reddi, MPH, presented a poster titled, Unpacking the Functions of Implementation Teams in Supporting Curriculum Implementation.
