Autism2012 – the eighth Awares international online autism conference

www.awares.org/conferences

More than sixty papers are online now and the presenters – among the world’s leading autism authorities and individuals with ASD – will be answering your questions from November 19, 2012.

Register right now at www.awares.org/conferences for this unique opportunity to connect directly with the some of the top names in the field!

Donna Williams on autism and dissociation, Wendy Lawson on autism and ageing, Lucy Hawking on life with an autistic son (and a famous father), Kathy Lette on her ‘challenging, hilarious, humbling and enriching’ experiences with her Asperger’s son and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay on his very different mind – these are just a few of the extraordinary range of papers already online at the Awares conference site (www.awares.org/conferences). And you will have the chance to put your questions directly online to more than sixty of the world’s leading autism authorities and individuals with ASD.

There will also be research papers on brain studies, education, concepts of autism, behavioural issues, psychology, screening and diagnosis and much, much more.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to join in the event which Professor Simon Baron-Cohen has called ‘the finest online conference on the planet’.

The Awares international online conference is run every year by Autism Cymru, Wales’s pioneering National Charity for Autism, and organised by Adam Feinstein.

For further details, please contact Adam Feinstein on: [email protected]

Focus 2012 ~ Guidepost for Success

For those of you that have been following us on Facebook, you know that BDS staff members will be at Focus 2012 ~ Guideposts for Success on March 10th. Guidepost for Success will be taking place at Bel Air High School from 8:30 am – 1:00 pm. This conference focuses on teens and young adults with special needs and their families facing the challenges of transition to adulthood.  There will be vendors, agencies, organizations, and support groups that provide services to individuals with special needs.

 

Make sure that you stop by and say “hello” to staff members at our table in the exhibitor area. You know that I always customize our tables to fit to location. Since this one is at Bell Air High, you have to see what I have planned.

 

Hope to see you there!

Barbara