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Question 1: When Should I Be Concerned? (Diagnosis) | Fiscal Year: 2009 | 147 projects | 44693942.3 | Unnamed: 4
1SA. Develop, with existing tools, at least one efficient diagnostic instrument (e.g., briefer, less time intensive) that is valid in diverse populations for use in large-scale studies by 2011.  IACC Recommended Budget: $5,300,000 over 2 years. | green | 15 projects | 4728119.75
Project Title | Funder | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding
Automated measurement of dialogue structure in autism | Autism Speaks | Roark, [NAME] | Oregon Health and Science University | 44250
Psychometric evaluation of the autism symptom diagnostic scale | Center for Autism and Related Disorders | [NAME], [NAME] | Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) | 8975
Development of a brief screener for research in autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Lord, [NAME] | University of Michigan | 498777
BrainVision BrainAmp MR plus | National Institutes of Health | Fan, [NAME] | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | 120670
Computer adaptive testing of adaptive behavior of children and youth with autism | National Institutes of Health | Coster, [NAME] | Boston University | 284375
Early detection of pervasive developmental disorders (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | Fein, [NAME] | University of Connecticut | 193155
Early detection of pervasive developmental disorders | National Institutes of Health | Fein, [NAME] | University of Connecticut | 1067234
The creation of ASDRA (Autism Spectrum Disorder Risk Alert) | National Institutes of Health | Tiranoff, [NAME] | Tiranoff Productions, LLC | 968717
1/2 Development of a screening interview for research studies of ASD | National Institutes of Health | Lord, [NAME] | University of Michigan | 617084
2/2 Development of a screening interview for research studies of ASD | National Institutes of Health | Bishop, [NAME] | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | 364291
Improving accuracy and accessibility of early autism screening | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Total Child Health, Inc. | 318946
Think Asperger's | Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center | Smith, [NAME] | Southwestern Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) | 125000
Naturalistic observation diagnostic assessment for autism | Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center | Smith, [NAME] | Southwestern Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) | 0
Autism dysmorphology measure validity study | Simons Foundation | [NAME], [NAME] | University of Missouri | 47957.75
Quantitative analysis of craniofacial dysmorphology in autism | Simons Foundation | Deutsch, Curtis | University of Massachusetts Medical School | 68688
1SB. Validate and improve the sensitivity and specificity of new or existing screening and diagnostic tools, including comparison of general developmental screening versus autism-specific screening tools, in both high risk and population-based samples through studies of the following community populations that are diverse in terms of age, socio-economic status, race, ethnicity, characteristics of ASD, and general level of functioning by 2012.  IACC Recommended Budget: $5,400,000 over 3 years. | green | 11 projects | 3973711.8
Project Title | Funder | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding
Attention to social and nonsocial events in children with autism | Autism Speaks | Bahrick, [NAME] | Florida International University | 149888
International trends in diagnoses and incidence of autism spectrum disorders | Autism Speaks | [NAME], Glenys | Telethon Institute for Child Health Research | 54865.8
The development of Chinese versions of the ADOS and ADI-R | Autism Speaks | [NAME], [NAME] | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | 0
Novel methods for testing language comprehension in children with ASD | Autism Speaks | Tager-Flusberg, Helen | Boston University | 150000
Video game environments for the integrative study of perception, attention and social cognition in autism and autism sibs | Autism Speaks | Belmonte, [NAME] | Cornell University | 0
Improving and streamlining screening and diagnosis of ASD at 18-24 months of age | National Institutes of Health | Wetherby, [NAME] | Florida State University | 971606
Genomic identification of autism loci | National Institutes of Health | Eichler, [NAME] | University of Washington | 1139256
The development of face processing | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Children's Hospital Boston | 529515
Neurobehavioral research on infants at risk for SLI and autism | National Institutes of Health | Tager-Flusberg, Helen | Boston University Medical Campus | 710348
Early social communication characteristics of ASD in diverse cultures in the US and Africa | National Institutes of Health | Wetherby, [NAME] | Florida State University | 238233
University of Georgia &ndash; Carolina Autism Resource and Evaluation Center (UGA-CARES): A collaborative autism screening project utilizing web-based technology | Organization for Autism Research | Campbell, [NAME] | University of Georgia | 30000
(New to 2009) 1SC. Conduct at least three studies to identify reasons for the health disparities in accessing early screening and diagnosis services by 2012.  IACC Recommended Budget:  $2,000,000 over 2 years. | yellow | 1 projects | 139072
Project Title | Funder | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding
Understanding the delay in the diagnosis of autism | National Institutes of Health | Mandell, [NAME] | University of Pennsylvania | 139072
(New to 2009) 1SD. Conduct at least two studies to understand the impact of early diagnosis on choice of intervention and outcomes by 2015.  IACC Recommended Budget: $6,000,000 over 5 years. | red | 0 projects | 0
na | not applicable | 0 projects | 0
na | not applicable | 0 projects | 0
1LA. Identify behavioral and biological markers that separately, or in combination, accurately identify, before age 2, one or more subtypes of children at risk for developing ASD by 2014.  IACC Recommended Budget:  $33,300,000 over 5 years. | green | 43 projects | 16465034
Project Title | Funder | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding
Neurophysiological indices of risk and outcome in autism | Autism Speaks | Webb, [NAME] | University of Washington | 0
The genetic link between autism and structural cerebellar malformations | Autism Speaks | Millen, [NAME] | University of Chicago | 31750
Identifying gastrointestinal (GI) conditions in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) | Autism Speaks | Winter, Harland | Harvard Medical School | 127500
Clinical and gene signatures of ASDs | Autism Speaks | Lewis, Suzanne | University of British Columbia | 61000
Temporal coordination of social communicative behaviors in infant siblings of children with autism | Autism Speaks | Parlade, [NAME] | University of Pittsburgh | 28000
[NAME] and autism | Autism Speaks | [NAME], [NAME]; [NAME], [NAME]; Golomb, Beatrice; Haas, [NAME]; [NAME], [NAME]; Barshop, [NAME] | University of California, Irvine; University of California, San Diego | 363400
Multiplexed suspension arrays to investigate newborn and childhood blood samples for potential immune biomarkers of autism | Department of Defense | Vogt, [NAME] | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 0
Identification of lipid biomarkers for autism | Department of Defense | Kang, Jing | Massachusetts General Hospital | 249924
Placental vascular tree as biomarker of autism/ASD risk | Department of Defense | Salafia, [NAME] | Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. | 483029
Biomarkers for autism and for gastrointestinal and sleep problems in autism | Department of Defense | [NAME], George | Yale University | 472129
Abnormal vestibulo-ocular reflexes in autism: A potential endophenotype | Department of Defense | White, [NAME] | University of Florida | 510142
Pupil size and circadian salivary variations in autism spectrum disorder | National Institutes of Health | Colombo, [NAME] | University of Kansas | 70138
ACE Center: Data Management and Analysis Core | National Institutes of Health | Grigorenko, Elena | Yale University | 202737
Early identification of autism: A prospective study | National Institutes of Health | Iverson, [NAME] | University of Pittsburgh | 566827
ACE Center: Administrative Core | National Institutes of Health | Eichenbaum, [NAME] | University of California, San Diego | 34477
A longitudinal 3-D MRSI study of infants at high risk for autism | National Institutes of Health | Dager, Stephen | University of Washington | 225553
ACE Center: Clinical Phenotype: Recruitment and Assessment Core | National Institutes of Health | Pierce, [NAME] | University of California, San Diego | 393095
ACE Network: A longitudinal MRI study of infants at risk for autism | National Institutes of Health | Piven, [NAME] | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3317464
Prospective study of infants at high risk for autism | National Institutes of Health | Chawarska, [NAME] | Yale University | 286887
Predicting outcome at age 5 of younger siblings of children with ASD | National Institutes of Health | Malesa, [NAME] | Vanderbilt University | 40866
Language development and outcome in children with autism (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | Naigles, Letitia | University of Connecticut | 299918
Metabolic biomarkers of autism: Predictive potential and genetic susceptibility | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute | 380150
Nonlinguistic vocalizations in autism: Acoustic cry analysis in early infancy | National Institutes of Health | Sheinkopf, Stephen | Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island | 74200
Social communication phenotype of ASD in the second year | National Institutes of Health | Wetherby, [NAME] | Florida State University | 251746
Studying the biology and behavior of autism at 1-year: The Well-Baby Check-Up Approach | National Institutes of Health | Pierce, [NAME] | University of California, San Diego | 261462
Language development and outcome in children with autism | National Institutes of Health | Naigles, Letitia | University of Connecticut | 325125
Development of neural pathways in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Dobkins, [NAME] | University of California, San Diego | 328313
ACE Center: Assessment Core | National Institutes of Health | Klin, [NAME] | Yale University | 568028
The ontogeny of social visual engagement in infants at risk for autism | National Institutes of Health | Klin, [NAME] | Yale University | 584587
Validation study of atypical dynamic pupillary light reflex as a biomarker for autism | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of Missouri | 204525
ACE Center: Gaze perception abnormalities in infants with ASD | National Institutes of Health | Chawarska, [NAME] | Yale University | 307065
ACE Center: Integrated Biostatistical and Bioinformatic Analysis Core (IBBAC) | National Institutes of Health | Schork, [NAME] | University of California, San Diego | 202457
ACE Center: Linguistic and social responses to speech in infants at risk for autism | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of Washington | 308398
ACE Center: MRI studies of early brain development in autism | National Institutes of Health | Courchesne, [NAME] | University of California, San Diego | 365830
Infants at risk of autism: A longitudinal study | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of California, [NAME] | 583831
Infants at risk of autism: A longitudinal study (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of California, [NAME] | 1022289
Family/Genetic study of autism | Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center | Smith, [NAME] | Southwestern Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) | 130000
Model diagnostic lab for infants at risk for autism | Simons Foundation | Klin, [NAME] | Yale University | 1989795.5
Supplement to NIH ACE Network grant: "A longitudinal MRI study of infants at risk for autism" | Simons Foundation | Piven, [NAME] | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 270000
Signatures of gene expression in autism spectrum disorders | Simons Foundation | Kunkel, Louis | Children's Hospital Boston | 150000
Misregulation of BDNF in autism spectrum disorders | Simons Foundation | Hempstead, [NAME] | Weill Cornell Medical College | 150000
Electrophysiological, metabolic and behavioral markers of infants at risk | Simons Foundation | [NAME], [NAME] | Children's Hospital Boston | 92396.5
Oxytocin biology and the social deficits of autism spectrum disorders | Simons Foundation | Parker, [NAME] | Stanford University | 150000
1LB. Develop at least five measures of behavioral and/or biological heterogeneity in children or adults with ASD, beyond variation in intellectual disability, that clearly relate to etiology and risk, treatment response and/or outcome by 2015.  IACC Recommended Budget: $71,100,000 over 5 years. | yellow | 34 projects | 8760010
Project Title | Funder | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding
Ethnicity and the elucidation of autism endophenotypes | Autism Speaks | Constantino, [NAME] | Washington University in St. Louis | 61000
Imitation in autism | Autism Speaks | [NAME], [NAME] | King's College London | 61000
Temperament, emotional expression, and emotional self-regulation in relation to later ASD diagnosis | Autism Speaks | [NAME], [NAME] | Bryn Mawr College | 29500
Automated measurement of facial expression in autism: Deficits in facial nerve function? | Autism Speaks | [NAME], [NAME] | University of Miami | 127500
Sleep, neuropsychological, mood, behavior, learning, and developmental problems in children with autism | Autism Speaks | Mayes, [NAME] | Penn State College of Medicine | 18085
A prospective multi-system evaluation of infants at risk for autism | Department of Defense | [NAME], [NAME] | Massachusetts General Hospital | 0
A prospective multi-system evaluation of infants at risk for autism | Department of Defense | [NAME], [NAME] | Massachusetts General Hospital | 0
Predicting useful speech in children with autism (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | Yoder, [NAME] | Vanderbilt University | 59553
Electrophysiological signatures of language impairment in autism spectrum disorder | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | 347590
Reward systems in children with autism | National Institutes of Health | Scott, [NAME] | University of California, Los Angeles | 29840
Integrated function/structure image analysis in autism | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Yale University | 339441
Magnetic source imaging and sensory behavioral characterization in autism | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of California, San Francisco | 176201
Social evaluation in infants and toddlers | National Institutes of Health | Wynn, [NAME] | Yale University | 413750
Perception of social and physical contingencies in infants with ASD | National Institutes of Health | Klin, [NAME] | Yale University | 413750
Electrophysiological signatures of language impairment in autism spectrum disorder (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | 149432
Emotion, communication, & EEG: Development & risk | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of Miami | 298154
Emotional mimicry in children with autism | National Institutes of Health | Moody, [NAME] | University of Colorado Denver | 48647
Neural mechanisms underlying obsessive compulsiveness in ASD | National Institutes of Health | Carrasco, Melisa | University of Michigan | 32236
Perceptual factors affecting social attention in autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Macari, Suzanne | Yale University | 82750
Performance indices of social disability in toddlers with autism | National Institutes of Health | Klin, [NAME] | Yale University | 497995
Growth and maturation in children with autism | National Institutes of Health | Mills, [NAME] | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | 57383
Multiple social tasks and social adjustment | National Institutes of Health | Kang, Sun-Mee | California State University, Northridge | 144875
Multimodal studies of executive function deficits in autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Agam, Yigal | Massachusetts General Hospital | 48954
Predicting useful speech in children with autism | National Institutes of Health | Yoder, [NAME] | Vanderbilt University | 689435
Plasticity in autism spectrum disorders: Magnetic stimulation studies | National Institutes of Health | Oberman, [NAME] | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | 14963
Autism: Social and communication predictors in siblings | National Institutes of Health | Landa, Rebecca | Kennedy Krieger Institute | 751256
Clinical and behavioral phenotyping of autism and related disorders | National Institutes of Health | Swedo, [NAME] | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | 2416235
Cellular structure of the amygdala in autism | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of California, [NAME] | 45218
Child-initiated communicative interactions and autism intervention | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of California, Santa Barbara | 322692
ACE Center: Early detection and intervention in infants at risk for autism | National Institutes of Health | Dawson, Geraldine | University of Washington | 627746
Amygdala structure and biochemistry in adolescents with autism | National Institutes of Health | Nacewicz, [NAME] | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 27618
Analyses of brain structure and connectivity in young children with autism | National Institutes of Health | Nordahl, Christine | University of California, [NAME] | 90000
ACE Center: Eye-tracking studies of social engagement | National Institutes of Health | Klin, [NAME] | Yale University | 307211
Using a direct observation assessment battery to assess outcome of early intensive behavioral intervention for children with autism | Organization for Autism Research | MacDonald, Rebecca | New England Center for Children | 30000
1LC. Identify and develop measures to assess at least three "continuous dimensions" (i.e., social reciprocity, communication disorders, and repetitive/restrictive behaviors) of ASD symptoms and severity that can be used by practitioners and/or families to assess response to intervention for people with ASD across the lifespan by 2016.  IACC Recommended Budget: $18,500,000 over 5 years. | yellow | 6 projects | 861068.75
Project Title | Funder | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding
Asperger's syndrome: Diagnosis, interpretation and impact | National Institutes of Health | Nickrenz, [NAME] | University of Chicago | 34360
Neocortical mechanisms of categorical speech perception | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of California, San Francisco | 132214
Measuring quality adjusted life years in children with autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Tilford, [NAME] | Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute | 441724
Prosodic and pragmatic processes in highly verbal children with autism | Simons Foundation | [NAME], [NAME] | President & Fellows of Harvard College | 37499.75
Characterizing ASD phenotypes by multimedia signal and natural language processing | Simons Foundation | Elhadad, [NAME] | Columbia University | 65726
Language learning in autism | Simons Foundation | Ullman, [NAME] | Georgetown University | 149545
1O. Not specific to Question 1 objectives | not applicable | 37 projects | 9766926
Project Title | Funder | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding
Autism spectrum disorder in Down syndrome: A model of repetitive and stereotypic behavior for idiopathic ASD | Autism Speaks | Kaufmann, [NAME] | Kennedy Krieger Institute | 60000
Interactions between mothers and young children with ASD: Associations with maternal and child characteristics | Autism Speaks | Oppenheim, [NAME] | University of Haifa | 61000
Baby Siblings Research Consortium | Autism Speaks | Staff Member | Autism Speaks (AS) | 26634
Psychometric evaluation of the behavior problems inventory in ASD | Center for Autism and Related Disorders | [NAME], [NAME] | Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) | 25032
Psychometric evaluation of the QABF in children with ASD | Center for Autism and Related Disorders | Wilke , [NAME] | Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) | 11069
Evaluation of behavior problems in children with ASD | Center for Autism and Related Disorders | [NAME], [NAME] | Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) | 30025
Atypical pupillary light reflex in individuals with autism | Department of Defense | [NAME], [NAME] | University of Missouri | 515419
Systematic characterization of the immune response to gluten and casein in autism spectrum disorders | Department of Defense | [NAME], [NAME] | Weill Cornell Medical College | 126432
Receptive vocabulary knowledge in low-functioning autism as assessed by eye movements, pupillary dilation, and event-related potentials | Department of Defense | [NAME], [NAME] | Johns Hopkins University | 615000
Tools for automated assessment of language | National Institutes of Health | Sproat, [NAME] | Biospeech, Inc. | 198687
Eyeblink in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: A pilot study | National Institutes of Health | Malone, [NAME] | Drexel University | 229500
Multimodal analyses of face processing in autism and Down syndrome | National Institutes of Health | Mitchell, Teresa | University of Massachusetts Medical School | 155270
ACE Center: Assessment Core | National Institutes of Health | Leventhal, [NAME] | University of Illinois at Chicago | 377572
ACE Center: Auditory mechanisms of social engagement | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Yale University | 275966
ACE Center: The development of the siblings of children with autism: A longitudinal study | National Institutes of Health | Sigman, Marian | University of California, Los Angeles | 331863
Neural correlates of eye gaze processing in fragile X syndrome and autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Webb, [NAME] | University of Washington | 78000
Portable guidance in autism spectrum disorder | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | SymTrend, Inc. | 282025
ACE Center: The development of the siblings of children with autism: A longitudinal study (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | Sigman, Marian | University of California, Los Angeles | 55372
ACE Center: The Diagnostic and Assessment Core | National Institutes of Health | Piggot, Judith | University of California, Los Angeles | 309135
ACE Center: The Diagnostic and Assessment Core (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | Piggot, Judith | University of California, Los Angeles | 51580
Pre- and postnatal neurobehavioral profiles in infants at risk for autism | National Institutes of Health | Sheinkopf, Stephen | Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island | 74200
Sensory experiences in children with autism | National Institutes of Health | Baranek, Grace | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 486700
Sensory experiences in children with autism (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | Baranek, Grace | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 315122
Social-affective bases of word learning in fragile X syndrome and autism | National Institutes of Health | Abbeduto, Leonard | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 552090
Developmental processes, trajectories, and outcomes in autism | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Yale University | 286887
Autistic traits: Life course & genetic structure | National Institutes of Health | Constantino, [NAME] | Washington University in St. Louis | 573470
Development of face perception and recognition (supplement) | National Institutes of Health | Grill-Spector, Kalanit | Stanford University | 68253
The development of joint attention after infancy | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Georgia State University | 307063
Studies of social communication in speakers with autism spectrum disorder | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | Yale University | 286883
Social-emotional development of infants at risk for autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Stone, [NAME] | Vanderbilt University | 606646
Expressive crossmodal affect integration in autism | National Institutes of Health | Black, [NAME] | Oregon Health and Science University | 230998
Expressive and receptive prosody in autism | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], Jan | Oregon Health and Science University | 559970
Emotion-modulated psychophysiology of autism spectrum disorders | National Institutes of Health | Dichter, [NAME] | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 258981
Early language development within the autism spectrum | National Institutes of Health | [NAME], [NAME] | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 505018
Visual processing and later cognitive effects in infants with fragile X syndrome | National Institutes of Health | Rivera, [NAME] | University of California, [NAME] | 249794
Development of intermodal perception of social events: Infancy to childhood | National Institutes of Health | Bahrick, [NAME] | Florida International University | 332204
Early detection of autism through acoustic analysis of cry | National Institutes of Health | Sheinkopf, Stephen | Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island | 257066
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