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Hello,

More than fifty of the world's leading experts will now be taking

part in Awares' totally free international online autism conference -

making it the largest such conference ever to be held. You can

register for free right now at www.autism2006.org to read the

abstracts of many of the experts' papers and exchange views with

other conference delegates in the online Foyer Café. The

conference opens officially on October 4, 2006, Among the new names

of autism experts who, I am delighted to say, have told me

they are happy to take part in the conference are: Merry Barua,

director of India's leading autism organisation, Action for Autism

(in fact, it

is the primary organisation in South Asia specialising in autistic

spectrum

disorders and related pervasive developmental disabilities); Dr

Dinah Murray,

a worker, researcher, writer, campaigner and teacher in the field of

autism

and its variants; Dr Ulla Holck from Aalborg University in Denmark,

who is

one of the world's leading authorities on music therapy for children

with

autism; Professor Isabelle Rapin, one of the best-known autism

researchers, professor

of neurology and paediatrics (Neurology) at the Albert Einstein

College of

Medicine in New York, who has a long-standing clinical and research

interest in

autism, communication disorders - including deafness and

developmental

language disorders; Jeanette Purkis, an Australian artist with

Asperger's

syndrome; Professor DeLong, professor of paediatrics

(Neurology) at Duke

University, whose major interests, aside from clinical child

neurology, are

paediatric neurobehavioural disorders, especially early delineation

of childhood

bipolar disorder, and autism; Breakey, who has particular

expertise in

further and higher education and was responsible for setting up and

developing

the Autism Support Service at Sheffield College, in the UK;

Professor Colwyn

Trevarthen, Professor (Emeritus) of Child Psychology and

Psychobiology at the

University of Edinburgh; Dr Martha Herbert and Dr Lathe, two

Leading specialists in the toxicological aspects of autism; Dr

Beversdorf from Ohio State University and Dr Dirk Dhossche from the

University of

Mississippi Medical Centre.

Anyone is welcome to log on - parents, people with autism,

researchers, practitioners, teachers and social workers. Please take

a moment to

register now (at www.autism2006.org) and make a note in your diary

to join us on

October 4.

Topics for discussion include: Brain Research, Biomedical

Approaches, Education, Asperger's syndrome, Autism and

relationships, Autism and

computers, First-hand experiences - Voices from the spectrum,

Genetics, Autism

and the environment, Communication methods, Related conditions,

Immunological issues, Music therapy, Diagnosis, Language issues in

autism, Autism in

adolescents and Adults with autism.

All the autism experts will be available in the week of October 4 to

11 to answer your questions. Other speakers include Donna

and

Lawson, two of the world's best-known autistic writers and

speakers;

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor t Mottron, Professor

Jill Boucher and

Professor Helen Tager-Flusberg, four 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, both articulate men with Asperger's

syndrome;

Shattock and Dr Karl Reichelt, two of the world's foremost experts

on autism

and diet; Dennis Debbaudt, the world's top authority on training

the emergency

services to recognise and understand autism; and 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.

To find out more about Autism2006, register and receive email

updates with all the latest conference news, please go to

www.autism2006.org

For further details, please contact myself at adam@... or telephone

on (0)29 20464940 in Cardiff. To register for

Autism2006, simply go to www.autism2006.org

Many of the abstracts are available online now at www.autism2006.org

and the full papers will be available from the beginning of October

2006. Experts will

be on-line to answer questions in person between October 4-11.

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

adam@...