{Fraud?} RE: ASA to Participate in Press Conference on Mercury and Autism

[Guest guest]

Gee- While I say the more the merrier, I

think if ASA is getting $100K to do a program to “bring

awareness to environmental health issues and ASD, the paradigm shift in

considering autism as a treatable condition and the response the medical

community must take to address the autism epidemic”

The schedule for their upcoming conference hardly

reflects this. No more than a token few speakers on the topic. Some paradigm shift

ASA.

Becky

ASA's 37th National Conference on Autism

Spectrum Disorders (July 13-16, 2006)

Providence

Behavior Issues and Supports

Autism, Stress, and Movements Differences:

Supporting Individuals Through Relationships

Behavioral Intervention in the School

Setting

Can’t or Won’t and what can we

do about it.

Developing Flexibility: Strategies that

Help Regulate Intensive Emotional Reactions

Functional Analysis: Why we should use it

and how it is done

Reinforcement Is Not a Four-Letter Word!

Social Skills as Essential Components of

Positive Behavior Plans

Statewide Autism Training for Law

Enforcement and First Responders

The Effect of Behavioral Therapy on

Oxidative Stress in Autism

When My Autism Gets Too Big!

Communication

Communication Environments – Giving

Children a Reason to Communicate!

Enhancing Language, Cognition, and Social

Reasoning through Systematic Grammar Training

From Echolalia to Social Cognition: Unique

Communication Interventions

Lighting the Way to a New Society: Leading

Others to Inclusive Communities

Teaching Nonverbal Children with ASD To

Speak

Theory of a Different Kind of Mind:

Understanding Autistic Thinking

To Speak or Not To Speak: Balancing Speech

Production and Communication Goals

Total Communication: Experience From a

Center-Based ABA Early Childhood Program

Using the Procedural Knowledge Profile

© To Establish Communication Goals and Objectives

Early Intervention

Applied Behavior Analysis: Beyond Discrete

Trial Teaching

Challenging Behaviors and Young Children

with ASD: Perspectives on Prevention and Intervention.

Classroom and Communication Skills Program

Entering the Maze: Getting Answers,

Getting Help, Getting Going

Individualized toilet training programs

for children with autism spectrum disorders

Partner Classrooms- Coming Soon to a

School Near You!

Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) in Nova Scotia: A community-based early

intervention model

Education

Incorporating Visuals in the Education of

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

10 Strategies for Creating a Successful

Day for a Person with ASD

A Comprehensive Approach to the Prevention

of Bullying

ASD Awareness Kits and Disability

Awareness Workshops, Preschool through Adult Hands-On Learning

Answering the Call: Meeting the Challenge

of Leading Autism Programs

Building a State Support Infrastructure

for Students with Autism in Rhode Island

FOSTERING RESILIENCE, OPTIMISM, AND OTHER

CHARACTER STRENGTHS: APPLYING POSTITIVE PSYCHOLOGY TO AUTISM

Hyperlexia and Autism: How Theory of Mind

Relates to Reading Comprehension.

Individual Tutoring Programs: A Model for

Evidence-Based Short-Term Skill Acquisition

Is It Autism or ? Accurate Assessment by

Practitioners

Issues and Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension in

Individuals with ASD

Navigating the way from self-contained

placement towards greater inclusion in high school

Navigating to Effective Inervention: An

innovative Model Lights the Way Using parent Education, Coaching and Support

Now What? Interventions Following the

Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Our Presence Automatically Liberates

Others: Disability Awareness Programming and the Timelines Project

P.S. 176 - An Exemplary Public School

Program for Students with Autism

The Teacher Theory: The Thrive Vx.

Struggle to Survive Phenomenon of Students with ASD

Toilet Brushes and Tarantulas:

Understanding the Special Interests of Children with Asperger's

Translating Clinical Practice into

Technology: New Insights into Autism Intervention

Family and Sibling Support

Autism Network for Individuals with

Hearing and Visual Impairments

Autism Orientation for Faith Based

Communities: Communication, Creativity, and Compassion

Autism, Asperger's and Adolescence: Life

at the Time of Puberty

Bringing You Protected Tomorrows: Creating

the Future Care Plan for Family Member with Special Needs

Creating a Supportive Home and Community

for the ASD Family

Empowering Parents to Advocate for Real

Educational Benefit under the Reauthorized IDEA 2004

Explaining Autism to Children:

Considerations, Activities and Resources

How To Guide for Parents: Practical

Strategies for Managing Home Issues

My Grandchild has Autism... Now What??

Our Life In A Nutty Shell II, More Living

With Autism and Loving It

Puberty, Hygeine and Sexuality in

Adolescence

Special Trusts for Special People

The Autistic Family Life Cycle: Family

Stress and Divorce

The Catching-up Years Growing Old With

Autism: Help For Families

The Health Belief Model and Prediction of

Parents’ Choices of Autism Treatment

The Parent As An Advocate In The Medical

Insurance Context

Using Interactive Video Teleconferencing

to Support Families of Young Children with Autism

We Are Family! Parents and Professionals

Educating Each Other

We Are Family: Parents on the Spectrum

Speak Out

Medicine and Research

Asperger Syndrome: A Study of

Characteristics in progress at the University of Kansas

Autism and Epilepsy: New developments in

treatment

CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN THE ASSESSMENT AND

TREATMENT OF PERSONS WITH ASD

Environmental Factors in Developmental

Disabilities: The Emerging Science

Enzymes:Application To Dietary Protocols

in Autism

Recovery Is a Possibility With Successful

Biomedical Interventions

The Connection

Personal Perspectives

God Does Not Make Garbage: A Live

Performance

Lost and Found: Discovering Asperger

Syndrome After 50

Self-Advocacy for Teens and Young Adults

with Autism

Speaking for Ourselves: Individuals on the

Autism Spectrum Panel

The Role Of Spirituality In The Lives Of

Individuals With Asperger's Syndrome

Women with Autism Differences SPEAK

Writer's Workshop For All Writers With ASD

Subjects

Sensory Processing

Get a HANDLE on Autism: A Systems Approach

to Sensory Processing Challenges

Illuminating the Connection Between

Sensory Integration Treatment and Improvements in Language Comprehension

Social Skills

Assessment and Treatment of Joint Atention

Deficits in Young Children with Autism

Building Social Relationship: A Systematic

Approach to Teaching Social Interaction Skills to Children and Adolescents with

ASD

Computer Assisted Improvement of Social

and Executive Functioning in Asperger’s Disorder

Facilitating Friendships Between Children

With ASD And Their Peers

ing Mutual Friendships - The Friend

2 Friend Model

It’s Not Just for Fun Anymore:

Innovations in Play and Leisure Skill Development

Keeping Ourselves Safe: Strategies for

Coping with Social Danger

Learning from the Inside Out

Making Small Talk: How to Help Children

Have Conversations and Make Friends

Meaningful relationships: the development

and improvement of social skills in children with autism.

Social Skills Groups for Children and

Adolescents with Asperger's Disorder

The F.R.I.E.N.D. Program

Technology

Autism Technology Panel Discussion:

Overview of Products, Best Practices, Research, & Future Directions

I Want Computer

Social Story™ Movies: Converting

Printed Stories to Highly Dynamic Videos

Using video and multi-media technology to

teach children with autism

Transition Planning and Options for

Adulthood

Accessing Services Through the Courts

All Residential Services Are Not Created

Equal...What Makes a Quality Program?

Beyond High School: Aspergers Syndrome,

Autism and Transition to Higher Education

Dreams for Today, Success for Tomorrow:

Planning for a Successful College Experience for Individuals on the Autism

Spectrum

Evidence-Based Standards: How They Work in

Existing Residential Programs for Adults with Autism

How to Establish a Strong Relationship Between

Vocational Rehabilitation and the Autism Community

Mama Told Me There'd Be Days Like This.....But

Not How Many

Meeting and Maintaining Employer

Expectations: Employment success through a

Preparing for the Real World of Work

Ten Essential Skills to Learn Now for a

Safe, Independent Life

Ten things you need to know when your

child turns 18

Transition to Adult Life: The Delaware Model

Wow

History is being rewritten!

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=63037

ASA to Participate in Press Conference on Mercury

and Autism; ASA President Grossman to Discuss State of Autism in America

3/28/2006 12:07:00 PM

Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Kate Ranta of the Autism Society of

America, 301-657-0881 ext. 120

News Advisory:

WHAT: A panel briefing on the growing evidence of a

link between mercury, vaccines and autism, and important new developments on

Capitol Hill, in major universities and within the mainstream media.

WHO: Lee Grossman, president & CEO of the Autism

Society of America (ASA) and the father of a child with Autism Spectr! um

Disorder (ASD). Grossman will discuss the state of ASD in America, the grant

ASA recently received to bring awareness to environmental health issues and

ASD, the paradigm shift in considering autism as a treatable condition and the

response the medical community must take to address the autism epidemic. He

will also be available to respond to questions regarding pending legislation

related to ASD.

Dan Olmsted, journalist for UPI who writes the

regular column, " The Age of Autism. " Olmsted will discuss his recent

reporting on unvaccinated populations -- including Amish children in

Pennsylvania and patients at a holistic medical practice outside Chicago -- as

well as other investigations into early cases of autism, and reports of

improvements after medical treatments.

Kirby, author of the book Evidence of Harm --

Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic, recently released in paperback

with a new update. Kirby will discuss newly- published science! from major U.S.

universities that support the mercury-autism link, media reports of recent

declines in new autism numbers and newly-leaked Institute of Medicine (IOM)

transcripts that would indicate undue pressure by the Centers for Disease

Control over IOM vaccine committee members to reject the thimerosal-autism

hypothesis.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who will unveil a

bill to provide for a new study of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations of

American children. Data from this relatively simple study could settle once and

for all the question of a link between vaccines and autism, ADD, ADHD and other

disorders. Rep. Maloney will also discuss the federal bill to ban thimerosal in

vaccines, which she co-sponsors with Rep. Dave Weldon (R-Fla.), and a possible

Congressional move to empanel a new committee of the IOM that would consider

new evidence to support the link.

WHEN: Thursday, March 30. Breakfast at 8:30 a.m.,

briefing from 9 to 10 a.m.

WHERE: National Press Club (gor Room), 529 14th

St. NW, Washington, D.C.

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ASA is the leading voice and resource of the entire

autism community in education, advocacy, services, research and support. The

ASA is committed to meaningful participation and self- determination in all aspects

of life for individuals on the autism spectrum and their families. ASA

accomplishes its mission through close collaboration with a successful network

of 200 chapters, and hundreds of thousands of members and supporters.

For more information about autism or ASA, visit the

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