{"id":609,"date":"2018-07-01T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/?p=609"},"modified":"2019-02-23T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T16:24:36","slug":"new-1-4m-ies-grant-for-teaching-social-skills-to-students-on-the-autism-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/2018\/07\/new-1-4m-ies-grant-for-teaching-social-skills-to-students-on-the-autism-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"New $1.4M IES grant for teaching social skills to students on the autism spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lab has received a new $1.4M grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to develop a new educational technology platform for teaching theory of mind and social skills to middle school students on the autism spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Maithilee Kunda is the principal investigator.  This project builds on an existing educational technology called &#8220;Betty&#8217;s Brain,&#8221; developed by collaborator Gautam Biswas and his <a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/oele\/\">Open-Ended Learning Environments (OELE) research group<\/a>.  Other key collaborators include Pablo Juarez, Zack Warren, Amy Kinsman, and Amy Swanson from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vkc\/triad\/home\">Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The official title of the project is: <em>Betty&#8217;s Mind: A Theory of Mind and Social Reasoning Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders Based on a Learning by Teaching Approach<\/em>.  More info can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/funding\/grantsearch\/details.asp?ID=2149\">https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/funding\/grantsearch\/details.asp?ID=2149<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lab has received a new $1.4M grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to develop a new educational technology platform for teaching theory of mind and social skills to middle school students on the autism spectrum. Maithilee Kunda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/2018\/07\/new-1-4m-ies-grant-for-teaching-social-skills-to-students-on-the-autism-spectrum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/aivaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}