World's top autism experts online next week - and it's free!

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www.autism2006.org

A number of extremely prominent names have now joined the list of more than

sixty world experts taking part in Awares' second free international online

autism conference from October 4-11, 2006. All the experts will be available

to answer your questions, and entry is totally free.

This is the largest such conference ever to be held. You can register for

free right now at www.autism2006.org to read the abstracts of most of the

experts' papers and exchange views with other conference delegates in the

online Foyer Café. The conference opens officially on October 4 and lasts

for at least a week - but I will almost certainly extend the event, as I did

twice last year because it proved so enormously popular (with more than

10,000 people joining in the discussions).

The speakers this year include:

* Donna and Lawson, two of the world's best-known

autistic writers and speakers

* Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor t Mottron, Professor

Margot Prior and Professor Helen Tager-Flusberg, four

of the world's most outstanding autism experts

* and Gisela Slater- (a married couple who provide two

brilliant papers on living with Chris's Asperger's syndrome);

* Dr Darold Treffert and Dr Becker, the world's two leading

authorities on autistic savants

* Larry Arnold and Danny Beath, two British photographers with

Asperger's syndrome

* Shattock and Dr Karl Reichelt, two of the world's foremost

experts on autism and diet

* Shore, a well-known speaker with autism

* Dr Pierce and Dr Casanova, two leading authorities on

the neurological aspects of autism

* Dennis Debbaudt, the world's top expert on training the emergency

services to recognise and understand autism

* Jacqui , mother of seven children (including four on the

autistic spectrum) and her son, Luke, a well-known author and

speaker with Asperger's syndrome

Among the new names are four of the world's leading autism authorities:

Professor Jill Boucher (UK), Professor Isabelle Rapin (USA), Professor

DeLong (USA) and Professor Colwyn Trevarthen (UK).

Other international speakers include:

Professor Fitzgerald (Ireland), Dr Mitzi Waltz (UK), Dr

Donnelly (USA), Dr o Canitano (Italy), Dr Ring (UK), Dr Olga

Bogdashina (Ukraine), Shore (USA), Dr Teija Kujala (Finland),

Professor von Tetzchner (Norway), Professor t Danon-Boileau

(France) and Dr Sven Boelte (Germany).

Other important newcomers to the conference include:

* Dr Dinah Murray (UK), a worker, researcher, writer, campaigner and

teacher in the field of autism and its variants

* Merry Barua (India), director of Action for Autism, the primary

organisation in South Asia specialising in autistic spectrum

disorders and related pervasive developmental disabilities

* Dr Ulla Holck (Denmark) and Dorita Berger (USA), two of the world's

most important specialists in music therapy for autism

* Chantal Sicile-Kira (USA), one of the leading American experts on

adolescence, who in her paper provides invaluable practical

tips for teenagers with autism

* Carole Rutherford (UK), co-founder of Autism-in-Mind (AIM), a

national campaign and support group

* Jeanette Purkis (Australia), an artist with Asperger's syndrome and

an uplifting message

* Breakey (UK), who has particular expertise in further and

higher education and was responsible for setting up and developing the

Autism Support Service in Sheffield

* Dr Enticott (Australia)

* Dr Beversdorf (USA)

* Dr McGregor (UK)

* Dr Ashwood (USA)

* Dr Shari Au (USA)

* Dr Dirk Dhossche (USA)

* Dr Diane (USA)

* Dr Cody Hazlett (USA)

* Dr McIntosh (USA)

* Dr Molly Losh (USA)

All the autism experts will be available in the week of October 4 to 11 to

answer your questions.

Topics for discussion include: Brain Research, Biomedical Approaches,

Education, Asperger's syndrome, Autism and relationships, Autism and

computers, Autism and perception, Communication methods, Sensory problems in

autism, First-hand experiences - Voices from the spectrum, Genetics, The

culture of autism, Autism and the environment, The immunology of autism,

Diagnosis, Socialising difficulties in autism, Music therapy, Language and

autism, Autism and the emergency services, Autism in film, Autism in

adolescents

and Adults with autism.

To find out more about Autism2006, register for free and receive email

updates with all the latest conference news, please go to www.autism2006.org

The conference is organised by Autism Cymru, the national autism charity for

Wales.

For further details, please contact myself, Adam Feinstein, at

adam@... or telephone on (0)29 20464940 in Cardiff.

To register for Autism2006, simply go to www.autism2006.org

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

adam@...