OAR's Kit for Kids Promotes Acceptance

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OAR's Kit for Kids Promotes Acceptance

Arlington,

VA- April 4, 2012- The Organization for Autism Research is excited to announce the release of its Kit for Kids peer education resource. Starting this month, OAR is offering this new, free resource to help students explain autism to their peers.

"The idea for this resource started out with letters from students asking about autism," explained Gilmour, director, programs and community outreach. "We also had feedback from parents and teachers that

kids had questions about autism but no solid resource for information."

Now that resource exists. It's built around an informational booklet, What's up with Nick?,

which tells a story about a new boy with autism in school through the eyes of one of his classmates. As the narrator and fellow students learn

more about autism, they see past the differences it presents to better understand Nick the person. The kit includes:

- 20 copies of What's up with Nick? with additional copies available depending on class size

- 1 17 inch by 11 inch Kids with Autism Might... poster

- 1 lesson plan intended for student use

This resource is appropriate for elementary and middle school students. OAR's Kit for Kids is ideally used by a student to teach classmates about autism but can also be used by teachers.

For more information or to request the kit, please contact Gilmour at

agilmour@... or .

ABOUT OAR: The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) is a national, nonprofit organization formed and led by relatives of children and adults with autism and Asperger Syndrome. OAR is dedicated to promoting research that can be applied to help families, educators, caregivers, and individuals with autism find much-needed answers to their immediate and urgent questions.

Since 2001, OAR has awarded more than $2.2 million to fund 118 applied research studies and published six community-friendly resource guides in

its Life Journey through Autism series. OAR introduced the Schwallie Family Scholarship Program offering college and vocational school scholarships to individuals with autism spectrum disorders in 2007, and in 2009 and 2010 produced Operation Autism,

www.operationautismonline.org, a web-based resource for military families touched by autism, and a companion resource guide, Life Journey

through Autism: A Guide for Military Families.

For more information about OAR, please visit

www.researchautism.org.

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