Wiltshire, world famous autistic savant artist, is online today

[Guest guest]

Hello,

Just to let you know that you can now view all the papers at Awares' free

international online autism conference, to give you time to read them before

the more than 60 top world autism experts come on line to answer your

questions when the conference opens officially later today, October 4. You

can register for free right now at www.autism2006.org

I am very excited to say that, among the participants who will be online to

take your questions later today is Wiltshire, the world's most

famous autistic savant artist. will be online on October 4, 6 and

11. Don't miss this rare opportunity to put questions to an exceptional

autistic talent. can look at a target once and tthen draw a very

accurate and very detailed picture of it from memory. He once drew the whole

of central London after a helicopter trip above it. Since 2004 he has drawn

Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rome and furt on giant panoramic canvasses

entirely from memory. The writer and psychologist, Oliver Sacks, devoted an

essay to in his book, An Anthropologist on Mars.

joins more than 60 of the world's leading experts taking part in the

Awares online conference from October 4-11, 2006. Entry to the conference is

totally free and open to everyone. You can register right now at

www.autism2006.org where you will find the abstracts of almost all the

experts' papers and you can exchange views with other delegates.

The conference is organised by Autism Cymru, Wales's National Charity for

Autism.

This is the largest such conference ever to be held. 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).

Another late addition to the list of speakers this year is Professor

Monaco, from Oxford, UK, one of the world's leading authorities on the

genetics of autism

Other 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, Professor Jill Boucher, Professor Isabelle

Rapin, Professor DeLong and Professor Helen Tager-Flusberg,

seven 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

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

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

teacher in the field of autism and its variants

* 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

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), Professor Colwyn

Trevarthen (UK), Shore (USA), Dr Teija Kujala (Finland), Professor

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

Dr Sven Boelte (Germany), Dr Enticott (Australia), Dr Beversdorf

(USA), Dr McGregor (UK), Dr Ashwood (USA), Dr Shari Au (USA),

Dr Dirk Dossche (USA), Dr Diane (USA), Dr Cody Hazlett

(USA), Dr McIntosh (USA), Dr Ring (UK), Dr

(USA) and Dr Molly Losh (USA)

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

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

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

Don't miss this invaluable, free opportunity to put questions to more than

sixty of the world's top autism experts – and tell your friends, too!

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

adam@...