Brown University, Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation for Adult Autism announce new Endowment Fund for the Arts

PROVIDENCE – A $100,000 gift made by the Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation for Adult Autism, the nation’s first nonprofit exclusively geared to understanding adult autism, to Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies will establish The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation Adult Autism Theater and Performing Arts Fund.

The new fund will support educational programming and performances geared toward young adults and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at Brown’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. In addition, under the supervision of Brown senior lecturer Julie Adams Strandberg, the fund will allow Brown undergraduate and graduate students to work directly with the local autistic adult population.

To date, the Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation has set up similar endowments at Rutgers University’s School of Social Work (September 2016), Yale University Medical School (2014) and the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of Miami (2014). The four endowed programs supported by the foundation focus on a specific area relating to adult autism: research, program development, fostering creativity and expression through the arts and counseling and resources for family members of adults on the spectrum.

Founded in 2002 by Linda J. Walder, the mother of Daniel Jordan Fiddle, who was diagnosed with autism and passed away at age 9, is designed to increase awareness, opportunities and knowledge about aging and autism.

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