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Future Directions for Autism Research in Australasia
- April 2009
La Trobe University's Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre is hosting a meeting of leading autism researchers on Monday 6th and 7th April 2009.
The two-day workshop brings together leading researchers from Australia and New Zealand to identify current research strengths, plan future research directions, and forge new Australasian autism research collaborations.
Director of the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, Associate Professor Cheryl Dissanayake, says with an increase in the diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia, the aim is to develop a national collaborative research network that will help the one in 160 children and families affected by autism.
The workshop follows the announcement by the Federal Government that La Trobe University, in partnership with the Royal Children's Hospital, has been chosen as Victorian service provider under its new national Autism Specific Early Learning and Care Centres program.
This involves a grant of $4 million over four years to build such a centre on the University's main Melbourne campus at Bundoora.
For more information:
- Contact Dr Dissanayake - T: +61 (0)3 9479 2497, E: c.dissanayake@latrobe.edu
- Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC)
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