Autism and Brain Aging Lab

The Autism and Brain Aging Lab at Arizona State University is looking for adults with autism to participate in a paid research study on mindfulness techniques.

Visit https://cutt.ly/autismappstudy or email: [email protected] to learn more

From our community partners, Raising Special Kids:

It's Tip Tuesday and we have a great tip to share from the Arizona Department of Education about the Summer Food Service Program!

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) provides free and healthy breakfast, lunch, snack and supper to youth in Arizona all summer long. Anyone 18 years of age and younger is welcome to receive a meal from a participating summer feeding site.

Find summer feeding sites near you by visiting the AZ Health Zone Site Finder or texting FOOD or COMIDA to 877-877.

https://www.azhealthzone.org/summerfood/

Check our Summer Food Service Program web page for more details!

https://www.azed.gov/hns/sfsp/

In Dr. Thorp’s editorial, he urges the scientific community to recognize the biases that have perpetuated racial discrimination in research, academia, and science:

“Someone I turn to for wisdom and leadership on this issue is Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby, the Dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. As an African-American female, she claims that she is leading today only because a few people decided to let her into this exclusive club—something she says hardly ever happens. 'How much creativity are we leaving on the table,' she asks, 'because science repeatedly fails to come to terms with our narrowly defined processes and our limited ways of determining success.' "

Time to look in the mirror This is a grave time in American history. Both the public health and economic problems of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were foreseeable. But even more predictable is the racial tension gripping the United States in the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd. It is easy to think that the p...