Network Partners

AIR-B is a network of researchers supported by community partners. We are decentralized and rely on our academic partner sites working together to complete our overall research goals. UCLA serves as the coordinating center and takes responsibility for completing network goals as funded by grants. All sites enroll people in studies, follow the same study protocols, and share responsibility for activities. 

Each site has a leading principal investigator and a team with a wide range of skills. Each site also fosters its own community partners and brings new perspectives to AIR-B. Research is done across the country. 

This means studies are completed faster and with larger sample sizes. It also creates greater diversity in participants, findings that are widely relevant, and a clearer picture of the results.

AIR-B has been divided into a series of projects, each with a new set of sites and a new research goal. If you look at past AIR-B projects, you will see that we have included many sites. These participants have helped us build community connections and advance research. Their contribution has helped shape AIR-B today.

Academic Partners

AIR-B brings together a group of investigators on the cutting edge of autism intervention research. The network has included nine research sites: 

• University of California, Los Angeles- Center for Autism Research and Treatment

• University of Rochester Medical Center

• University of Pennsylvania - Center of Mental Health Policy and Services Research

• University of California, Davis - Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorder

• A.J. Drexel Autism Institute

• Florida State University

• Kennedy Krieger Institute

• New York-Presbyterian Center for Autism and the Development Brain

• University of Washington

• University of Kansas – Juniper Gardens Children’s Project

Community Partners

AIR-B relies on community partners to guide our work on autism research and interventions.

Each site is responsible for making their own community connections. This means AIR-B has worked with diverse communities across the country. Some of our biggest partners are listed below, but we also use focus groups and interviews with the public that cannot be easily listed.

• Healthy African American Families

• Los Angeles Unified School District

• Fiesta Educativa

• Korean-American Special Education Center

• Los Angeles Regional Centers

• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

• Rochester City School District

• Mary Cariola Children’s Center

• Elwyn Early Learning Services

• School District of Philadelphia

• Free Library of Philadelphia

• Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services

• Sacramento, Placer and Yuba County Offices of Education

• California State University, Sacramento

• Northern California Regional Centers

• Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities

• Camp Encourage

• Kansas City League of Autistics

• University of Washington, Haring Center for Inclusive Education

• Metropolitan Educational Cooperative Service Unit

• Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

• Seattle Public Schools

• Longview, Central Kitsap, Central Valley, La Conner, Crescent and Renton School Districts

• Northwest Regional Education Service District 189