The University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) profile series is meant to shine a deserving spotlight on individuals or programs within ITHS doing critical work across the vast spectrum of translational research. This September, we are focusing on work supported by ITHS Pilot Funds.
Shana Attar and Hannah Benevidez are clinical psychology graduate students working on autism research under their advisor, Wendy Stone, Ph.D. They received an ITHS academic-community partnership pilot award to work with Mother Africa, a local non-profit organization founded in King County to aid African refugee and immigrant women and their families. The focus of their research was to find new ways to help culturally diverse families better access autism support services.
We recently spoke with Shana and Hannah to learn more about how their ITHS Academic Community Partnership pilot award helped them with this project, “Co-Developing and Piloting Culturally-Responsive Informational Materials about Autism for Families of Young Children: Employing a Train-the-Trainer Implementation Model within a Nonprofit Setting...”
Read the full article here.
