Asst. Prof. of Psychology Jiabin Shen will study the effects of injuries on children with autism, analyzing the disparities between risk factors, health care and financial costs.

Professors in music and psychology are running EcoSonic Playground music camps for children with autism spectrum disorder. UMass Lowell students are getting hands-on teaching. experience, too.

Tyler Lagasse just brought home his third silver medal in golf from the Special Olympics USA games. An author and motivational speaker with autism spectrum disorder, Lagasse will keynote the 50th anniversary celebration of Special Olympics at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in September.

Disability Services – and the entire campus – supports students by embracing universal design principles in buildings and technology while also offering individual help.

The top-to-bottom renovation of Coburn Hall will allow the College of Education to return to its historic home – with updates that will carry it into the future.

Assoc. Prof. Richard Serna has won a $250,000 National Institute of Mental Health grant to create training software featuring a virtual child with learning difficulties associated with autism. The interactive software will help address a shortage of behavioral technicians.

A growing partnership between the university’s Autism Studies Program and a new treatment center in Lowell offers multiple opportunities for students and graduates. The PrideStar Center for Applied Learning employs UML students and alumni and offers research opportunities for faculty and graduate students.

Devon White, a new graduate of the Autism Studies Program, moved to Kuwait to help run the first affordable and comprehensive treatment center there.

Chemical engineering major New Michael Ingemi is a writer, performer and co-founder of Asperger’s Are Us, a comedy troupe that’s the subject of a new documentary by the same name.

Researchers at UMass Lowell are bringing together fields as diverse as psychology, education, nursing, economics, and engineering to build a Center for Autism Research and Education.

The College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is offering more bachelor's-to-master's programs, so students have more ways to save time and money while earning both degrees.

UMass Lowell is expanding its autism research and degree programs to help people with autism spectrum disorders.

Visiting Lecturer Regina Milan’s Design in Motion students created 60-second fundraising motion graphics for Melmark, a school in Andover that treats severely autistic children and teens.