Awares is to hold its second online autism conference between October 4-11, 2006. Once again, the free virtual conference will feature the largest ever gathering of world autism experts, including people with autism and leading academics.
Anyone is welcome to log on - parents, people with autism, researchers, practitioners, teachers and social workers. So please join us!
Leading international figures will be available to answer questions and discuss topics ranging from biomedical approaches to autism, the
immunology and neurology of autism, educational methods and first-hand experiences of living with autism. They include Donna Williams and Wendy Lawson, two of the world's best-known autistic writers and speakers; Jacqui Jackson, mother of seven children (including four on the autistic spectrum) and her son, Luke, a well-known author and speaker with Asperger's syndrome, and the foremost autism authorities Professor Rita Jordan, Professor Laurent Mottron, Professor Anthony Bailey and Professor
Margot Prior.
To find out more about Autism2006 and receive email updates with all the latest conference news, please go to www.autism2006.org
An online Foyer Café is also available for delegates to meet and discuss issues prior to the conference.
For further details, please contact Laura Morgan on 029 20464940 in Cardiff. To register for Autism2006, simply go to www.autism2006.org
Abstracts and papers will be available online at www.autism2006.org from the beginning of October 2006.Experts will be available on-line to
answer questions in person between October 4-11.
Other experts taking part include Stephen Shore (USA), Larry Arnold (UK), Danny Beath (UK), Dr Marco Iacoboni (Italy), Dr Skirmantas
Janusonis (USA), Dr Peter Enticott (Australia), Dr Manuel Casanova (USA), Chantal Sicile-Kira (USA), Dr Julie Donnelly (USA), Professor Michael Fitzgerald (Ireland), Professor Helen Tager-Flusberg (USA), Dr Molly Losh (USA), Paul Shattock (UK), Dr Karl Reichelt (Norway), Mitzi Waltz (USA), Dr Cynthia Molloy (USA), Dr Richard Becker (USA), Dr Dawn Wimpory (Wales), Dr Roberto Canitano (Italy), Dennis Debbaudt (USA), Professor Jill Boucher (UK), Dr Shari Au (USA), Dr David Skuse (UK), Olga Bogdashina
(Ukraine), Dr Thomas Berney (UK), Dr Paul Ashwood (USA) and Dr Sven Boelte (Germany).