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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...