M4A’s Executive Director Speaks on Music for Autism at the Australian Embassy
Joshua Stein and Lisa Splitlog, posted October 9, 2009.
Washington, DC – Music for Autism Executive Director Robert Accordino recently spoke at a symposium at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 60th anniversary of the United States-Australia Fulbright Commission. Accordino discussed research in autism that he completed while he was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia. Some of this research led Accordino to found Music for Autism in the United States.
Guests at the event included the Australian ambassador, the Australian minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, and Harriet Fulbright, wife of the late Senator J. William Fulbright, who founded the Fulbright scholarship program. Accordino was one of only six former grant recipients chosen to speak at the symposium. Other speakers included Abbe Smith, professor at Georgetown Law, and David McCann, program director with the Clinton Climate Initiative, a project of the William J Clinton Foundation.
The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator Fulbright. The program awards some of the country’s brightest students with a year-long research grant. The Fulbright Program currently operates in more than 150 countries.
