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How to Combine Cooperation and Advocacy at Your IEP Meeting
The IEP season is now in “full swing” and parents often wonder how they should conduct themselves at their child’s IEP meeting. It truly is a balancing act to be “cooperative” with your child’s IEP team while also advocating for the educational supports that are appropriate for your...
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The Man Who Understood Autism When Nobody Else Did – A Tribute to Leo Kanner
In 1956, my younger son was born. He was about five years old before we finally found a name for the problem he had. We had visited many professionals and asked them to diagnose his condition and tell us what we could do. “There is no name,” most of them said, “and the only thing to do is...
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Autism Advocacy Groups Join Together for the Advancing Futures For Adults With Autism Initiative
Advancing Futures for Adults with Autism (AFAA), an initiative led by a consortium of leading autism advocacy organizations, today announced the launch of a new web site, www.AFAA-us.org, that will provide updates on AFAA's ongoing efforts to improve housing, employment, recreational and social...
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New Autism Charity Hopes to Carve Out Its Niche, Despite Tough Times
Few nonprofit leaders would consider 2009 an ideal time to start up a charity. But Alison Tepper Singer isn’t letting the recession deter her. What she believes is an important gap in autism research can’t wait for the economy to rebound, she says. Ms. Singer created the Autism Science...
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Autism Advocacy Groups Join Together for the “Advancing Futures for Adults” Initiative
Autism Speaks to Host AFAA Web Site with Updates and Links to Resources and Information Advancing Futures for Adults with Autism (AFAA), an initiative led by a consortium of leading autism advocacy organizations, today announced the launch of a new web site, www.AFAA-us.org, that will...
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Strategies for Effective Advocacy
How can one person’s voice make a difference? That question is often posed, or at least thought about by most people. You read something in the paper and know for a fact it is misinformation; you hear about an incident that reeks of injustice; you are personally impacted by thoughtless and...
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Autism Speaks Offers 100 Day Kit for Families
Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism advocacy organization, is offering families of children newly diagnosed with autism a “100 Day Kit”, a personalized resource to assist families in getting through the critical time following an autism diagnosis. In addition to receiving the contents of...
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Inspiration Along the Road – Guiding Principle Behind the Meaningful Work of The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation
Sometimes the flame of inspiration needs a little rekindling. In our day-to-day lives, fast paced and full, there is often no time to take a pause and reflect upon where we are and where we are going: we just go! But then, unexpectedly a moment happens, and life gives us a pause that reaffirms that...
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Addressing the Needs and Challenges of Latino Children with Autism
Autism spectrum disorders cause a great deal of pain to families, individuals with this syndrome and society. However, in the past, research studies focusing on understanding autism were scarce due to a misunderstanding that autism was rare (Moldin, S.O., Rubenstein, J. L. R. (2006). This has...
