senoritafish | For anyone interested...

Dear senoritafish,

www.autism2006.org

Just to let you know that all the papers in our online autism conference are now open for viewing to give you a chance to read them before the authors come on line when the conference opens tomorrow, October 4.

Please tell all your friends about this invaluable, free opportunity to put questions to more than sixty of the world's top autism experts.

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

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AWARES Conference Centre
http://www.awares.org/conferences

The All Wales Autism Resources (AWARES) is sponsoring their second annual Online conference on the Autism spectrum for target audiences of:

People with autism or Asperger Syndrome (or people living with them)
Parents
Teachers
Social workers
Probation officers
Police officers
Medical professionals
Care professionals
Researchers

Basically for anyone who may have dealings with autistic people - and given the rise in autism diagnoses recently, that could be almost anyone! Topics include:

Asperger's syndrome
Autism in society
Autism, Asperger's syndrome and relationships
Autism and computers
Autism and perception
Autism and the environment
Autism in the media
Advocacy
Biomedical approaches
Brain research
The culture of autism
Diagnosis and screening
Education
Emotions in autism
Communication methods
First-Hand Experiences - Voices From the Spectrum
Genetics
Language and autism
Music therapy
Theory of Mind
Other therapies
Questions to Stephen Wiltshire
Savant syndrome
Sensory problems in autism
Services
Socialising difficulties in autism
Autism in adolescents
Adults with autism
Autism and the emergency services
Autism in film
Autism and related disorders

(my interests italicized)

Format of the conferences is posted papers, and a bulletin board-type dicussion for each one. This is free (all you have to do is register) and you can drop in anytime. I "attended" it last year and it was quite eye-opening for me.