Professor Uta Frith - one of the world's leading autism authorities - will answer your questions online on October 25, 2012‏

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Don't miss the latest in our exciting monthly series of one-day online conferences on www.awares.org/conferences in 2012 run by Autism Cymru - Wales’s National Charity for Autism. We are delighted that the presenter on October 25, 2012 is Professor Uta Frith, one of the world's leading autism authorities. You will have the unique opportunity to put your questions directly to her on October 25. Uta's paper is available to read right now at www.awares.org/conferences once you register. Uta herself will be online all day from 9am (UK time) on October 25. Please let your friends and colleagues know about this event.

 

Uta - who divides her time between University College London and the University of Aarhus in Denmark - has pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia and has written several books on these conditions. Her 2003 book, Autism: Explaining the Enigma, has been translated into many languages. In 1991, her own translation into English of Hans Asperger's celebrated 1944 paper made waves around the globe. Uta's research initiated the current representation of a theory of mind deficit in autism. She has also suggested that individuals with autism have "weak central coherence" and are better than typical individuals at processing details but worse at integrating information from many different sources. Throughout her career, she has been developing a neuro-cognitive approach to developmental disorders. In particular, she has investigated specific cognitive processes and their failure in autism and dyslexia. Her aim is to discover the underlying cognitive causes of these disorders and to link them to behavioural symptoms as well as to brain systems. She aims to make this research relevant to the education of people with development disorders and to contribute to a better quality of their everyday life. Uta was made an honorary Dame of the British Empire for services to clinical science in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

 

Register right now at www.awares.org/conferences to avoid disappointment.

 

For further details about this and all other Awares online autism conferences, please contact myself, Adam Feinstein, at: adam@autismcymru.org