Institute for Education Sciences Releases Funding Announcements for Research and Development Center Competitions

The U.S. Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute for Education Sciences, has released its fiscal year 2012 funding announcements for grant competitions in Research and Development Centers. The Special Education Research and Development Center Program (84.324C) includes the following competitions:

 (1) Special Education Research and Development Center on School-Based Interventions for Secondary Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders,

(2) Special Education Research and Development Center on Reading Instruction for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students,

(3) Special Education Research and Development Center on Interventions for Families of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and

(4) Special Education Research and Development Center on Interventions for Families of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.

 Additionally, the Education Research and Development Center Program (84.305C) includes the following competitions: (1) National Research and Development Center on Cognition and Adult Literacy and (2) National Research and Development Center on State and Local Policy.

The Request for Applications for each competition is available at http://ies.ed.gov/funding/

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I agree with this. Autism research and neural development science research help alleviate human conditions and which is why they deserve funding.