VoiceAmerica 9-21-10: AWAARE and National Autism Conference

[Guest guest]

On the VoiceAmerica Health and Wellness Channel

www.health.voiceamerica.com

Tuesday, September 21

12 noon ET / 9 am PT

Autism One: A Conversation of Hope

Be AWAARE of risks to the children you love, and attend the National Autism

Conference, with guests Fournier and Lori McIlwain

The AWAARE (Autism Wandering Awareness Alerts Response Education) Collaboration

works to prevent wandering incidents and death within the autism community. In

2008, Danish researchers found that the mortality rate among the autism

population is twice as high as the general population. In 2001, a California

research team attributed elevated death rates in large part to drowning.

Drowning, prolonged exposure, and other wandering-related factors remain among

the top causes of death within the autism population. Lori and share how

AWAARE provides information and tools in an effort to help stop these

preventable tragedies. Please see www.awaare.org. and Lori will also

discuss the upcoming National Autism Conference in Tampa, Florida, November

11-14. What information will this year's wonderful speakers have in store for

you so that you can help your child? Please visit

www.nationalautismconference.org.