What's Happening at START?

• Introducing Learning Bites: Flexible Learning for Every Path
• 25th Anniversary START Speaker Series - Registration is Open!
• New Info Sheets - Consent, Sexual Health and Online Safety, and more
• New Tool - CORE Strategies for Addressing Inappropriate Sexual Behaviors (ISB) in Schools
• Transition Planning: Early Childhood Through Adulthood for Autistic Students 
• Featured Resource: AFIRM Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules
• The Classroom Environment and Teaching Assessment (CETA) Updates
• CETA is Updated!
• EPLI Updates and Applications are Now Available
• Pillars of Peer to Peer Programming - Updated for 2025-2026
• 2025-2026 Trainings and Training Series Registrations are Open!

The Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) Project works with schools, community partners, and families to support students with autism to become active, engaged members of their schools and local communities, and successfully move into adulthood as independent individuals with many choices and opportunities. START is housed in the Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Autism Education Center (AEC) and has been funded by the Michigan Department of Education Office of Special Education since 2001.