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VCU Receives Federal Grant VCU Receives Federal Grant to Determine Best Practices to Facilitate Employment for Youth with Autism Virginia Commonwealth University, together with the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services and Henrico County Public Schools, has received a $2.5 million grant to expand research in how to best help youth with autism gain and maintain employment upon graduation. Young adults with autism are unemployed at a rate close to 90 percent, according to recent studies. Youth with autism present significant social and cognitive challenges, which have made competitive employment difficult after completion of high school. The five-year grant, from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research-United States Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, will expand a current randomized controlled trial at a local hospital in Richmond, Va., where all students who participated in the project in the first three years were subsequently hired as employees by that hospital. The new grant will continue that research as well as fund research sites in two additional community hospitals in northern and southeastern Virginia. The VCU team is focused on employment issues and improving social and cognitive behavior of youth with autism. Read the News Release or listen to the NPR Interview of Dr. Paul Wehman about the Grant Project Empowerment Webcast Virtue & Psychosocial Adaptability in Disability Jeong Han Kim, Ph.D., CRC is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling. He received his B.A. in psychology, and his M.S and Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Kim has experience with several rehabilitation agencies, including state/federal VR, long-term health care, veterans hospital (compensated work therapy, mental health unit, AODA counseling unit), and independent living centers. His research and other scholarly activity includes publications through national and international journals, presentations, grantsmanship and editorial activities. His primary research interests focuses on virtues and character traits in the context of resilience, posttraumatic growth, well-being and vocational success. Register for this Webcast KTER Archived Webcast Getting to Work After a Traumatic Brain Injury Parts 1 & 2 If you missed this informative and timely webcast on TBI, be sure to catch the archive. In this webcast, Dr. Nathan Zasler and Dr. Patricia Goodall discussed research and strategies for returning to work following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In Part 1, Dr. Zasler discussed TBI and what vocational specialists need to know. In Part 2, Dr. Goodall speaks about employment issues for people with traumatic brain injury. Getting to Work After a Traumatic Brain Injury: Part 1 Archive - What Vocational Specialists Need to Know Part 2 Archive - Employment Issues
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