What's Happening at START?
- EPLI Bootcamp: Essential Foundations Application is Open!
- EPLI Bootcamp: Early Childhood Application is Open!
- 2026-2027 Training and Training Series Registrations are Open!
- New Bite! Label the Need, Not the Person: Understanding Spiky Profiles in Autism
- Elevating Student Voices: Turning Belonging into Practice
- 25 Years Together: Our Commitment to Inclusion
- Ordering Graduation Cords for Peer to Peer Programs
- Visual Supports in Practice: Supporting Learning and Navigating Transitions
- Autistic Flourishing and Wellbeing
- New Tool - Comprehensive Communication Supports and Strategies (CCSS) Student Plan
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.
Page last modified August 21, 2026