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We are still recruiting families for our ImPACT Early Intervention Study!
We are seeking Seattle-area families who have a child with autism and a toddler between 10 and 18 months old ...
Request Adapted Toys through Husky ADAPT
Husky ADAPT (Accessible Design and Play Technology) is a graduate student-led organization at the UW with a mission to improve ...
Voices of Women with Autism
To shine a spotlight on women with autism, Spectrum News recently teamed up with Caveat, a speakeasy stage in New ...
READi Lab partners with The Alliance for Child Welfare Excellence to offer training credit for our “Understanding Autism” video series!
We are excited to announce our new partnership with the Alliance for Child Welfare Excellence, which delivers training to child ...
Sesame Street’s “Julia” Muppet inspires friendship and understanding!
Julia is a Muppet with autism who made her debut on Sesame Street in April 2017, and has already made ...
STAT Trainer Training in Oregon: Before, During, and After
Last week, Lisa and Wendy travelled to Portland, OR, to conduct STAT ‘Trainer Training’ for Dr. Bob Nickel, a developmental ...
Unpacking Social Communication in ASD
A recent article in Spectrum News unpacks the definition of social communication and how it relates to individuals with ASD ...
Calling all South Sound Families!
Your input is needed! Service providers from the South Sound Autism Community are looking for individuals with autism and their ...
Running (and Winning!) with Autism
The 2018 Special Olympics USA Games has united individuals from all over the country to demonstrate their remarkable athletic gifts. Two ...
Welcome to Seattle, Special Olympians!
This week Seattle is hosting the Special Olympics! You may have seen some of the 4,000 athletes from around the ...
Welcome, Hailee and Danielle!
The READi Lab team is growing! This spring, we welcomed two new full-time Research Study Assistants. Hailee Hannah began her ...
A belated WELCOME to Pascale!
Pascale Carpentier joined the READI Lab this past January to serve as Lead Research Assistant on the HRSA-funded Pathways grant ...
Roya’s off to grad school!
Roya Baharloo, who has been a Research Assistant at the READi Lab since June 2016, is heading off today to ...
High school graduate with autism gives inspiring speech
"Remember-- if you are following in someone else's footsteps, you will only get where they want to go," was one of the ...
Colleen Harker, Ph.D. receives her hood!
Congratulations to Dr. Colleen Harker, Wendy’s former graduate student, who participated in the Psychology Department “hooding ceremony” last Saturday to ...
We are so proud of our READi Lab Graduate Students!
Pictured above are Wendy’s current graduate students posing together during the Psychology Research Festival, which took place at the Waterfront ...
Thank you to our amazing undergraduate research assistants!
As the academic year comes to a close, we at the READi Lab wanted to give a big THANK YOU ...
UW and Microsoft strive to help those with autism obtain their dream jobs!
Photo from The Seattle Times The University of Washington’s Project SEARCH helps young adults with autism develop marketable skills to ...
READi Lab Bids a Fond Farewell to Research Coordinator Katie Ragsdale
This week, we are saying a bitter-sweet “See you later!” to our amazing Research Coordinator, Katie Ragsdale. She has played ...
Parents of high-risk infant siblings identify autism symptoms earlier than clinicians
A new study by a Canadian research group found that parents who have a child with autism and a later-born ...