Log on now to largest-ever free online autism conference

[Adam Feinstein]

Hello,

 

More than fifty of the world?s leading autism experts will now be taking part in Awares? free international online autism conference - making it the largest such conference ever to be held.

 

You can register for free right now at www.autism2006.org to read the abstracts of many of the experts' papers and exchange views with other conference delegates in the online Foyer Caf�. The conference opens officially on October 4, 2006,

 

All the autism experts will be available in the week of October 4 to 11 to answer your questions. Speakers include Donna Williams and Wendy Lawson, two of the world?s best-known autistic writers and speakers; Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor Laurent Mottron, Professor Jill Boucher and Professor Helen Tager-Flusberg, four of the world?s most outstanding autism experts; Chris and Gisela Slater-Walker (a married couple who provide two brilliant papers on living with Chris?s Asperger?s syndrome); Dr Darold Treffert and Dr Richard Becker, the world?s two leading authorities on autistic savants; Larry Arnold and Danny Beath, both articulate men with Asperger?s syndrome; Paul Shattock and Dr Karl Reichelt, two of the world?s foremost experts on autism and diet; Stephen Shore, a well-known speaker with autism; Dr Karen Pierce and Dr Manuel Casanova, two leading authorities on the neurological aspects of autism, Dennis Debbaudt, the world?s top authority on training the emergency services to recognise and understand autism; Dr Martha Herbert and Dr Richard Lathe, two specialists on the toxicology of autism; Jacqui Jackson, mother of seven children (including four on the autistic spectrum) and her son, Luke, a well-known author and speaker with Asperger?s syndrome, and Chantal Sicile-Kira, one of the top experts on adolescence in the United States, who, in her paper, provides wonderfully clear practical tips for teenagers with autism.

 

Among the new names of autism experts who, I am delighted to say, have told me they are happy to take part in the conference are: Dr Dinah Murray, a worker, researcher, writer, campaigner and teacher in

the field of autism and its variants; Professor Isabelle Rapin, one of the best-known autism researchers, professor of neurology and paediatrics (Neurology) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New

York, who has a long-standing clinical and research interest in autism, communication disorders - including deafness and developmental language disorders; Dr Ulla Holck from Aalborg University in Denmark, who is one of the world?s leading authorities on music therapy for children with autism; Merry Barua, director of India?s leading autism organisation, Action for Autism (in fact, it is the primary organisation in South Asia

specialising in autistic spectrum disorders and related pervasive developmental disabilities); Jeanette Purkis, an Australian artist with Asperger?s syndrome; Professor Robert DeLong, professor of paediatrics (Neurology) at Duke University, whose major interests, aside from clinical child neurology, are paediatric neurobehavioural disorders, especially early delineation of childhood bipolar disorder, and autism; Christine Breakey, who has particular expertise in further and higher education and was responsible for setting up and developing the Autism Support Service at Sheffield College, in the UK; Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, professor (Emeritus) of child psychology and psychobiology at the University of Edinburgh; Dr David Beversdorf, from Ohio State University, and Dr Dirk Dhossche from the University of Mississippi Medical

Centre.

 

Anyone is welcome to log on - parents, people with autism, researchers, practitioners, teachers and social workers. Please take a moment to register now (at www.autism2006.org) and make a note in your diary to join us on October 4.

 

Topics for discussion include: Brain Research, Biomedical Approaches, Education, Asperger's syndrome, Autism and relationships, Autism and computers, Communication methods, First-hand experiences - Voices from the spectrum, Genetics, Autism and the environment, The immunology of autism, Diagnosis, Music therapy, Language and autism, Autism in adolescents and Adults with autism.

 

To find out more about Autism2006, register and receive email updates with all the latest conference news, please go to www.autism2006.org

 

For further details, please contact myself at adam@autismcymru.org or telephone Laura Morgan on (0)29 20464940 in Cardiff. To register for Autism2006, simply go to www.autism2006.org

Many of the abstracts are available online now at www.autism2006.org and the full papers will be available from the beginning of October 2006. Experts will be on-line to answer questions in person between October 4-11.

 

Best wishes,

 

Adam Feinstein

 

adam@autismcymru.org

Edited September 21, 2006 by baddad

[baddad]

Hi adam...

 

I've edited your original post to 'enable' the links you posted. Hope that helps!

 

Doing the 'official' bit, I should add that the link you've posted is not in any way 'officially' endorsed by this forum.

 

I'd also point out to any members that the material available through the link can be viewed by scrolling down to the 'enter' box, and that signing in etc is voluntary...

 

Hope the conference goes well, and personally i hope to find some time to check it out when it goes 'live'...

 

L&P

 

BD