N E W S
Updated: 24-Dec-01
News does not reflect or imply InternAUT views. Links marked
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Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome -- Liane Holliday Willey describes her life with AS from the inside.
Autism and Asperger Syndrome, by Uta Frith -- the standard work on AS. Including Hans Asperger's original paper.
M E N U
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The following goals for InternAUT
have been agreed upon so far on the the project's "a-day" discussion
forum on the internet:
- Establishing a democratically run peer and advocacy organization, in order to achieve the goals listed below. Establishing a non-profit corporation in every participating country.
- Establishing peer-groups like Jerry Newport's AGUA everywhere and providing organizational support and information to any place that wants to start one.
- Issuing an international Bill of Rights for autistic people.
- Helping autistics and parents of autistic children enforce the law in order to get the services that they need and often are illegally denied.
- Liberating those autistics who have been inappropriately (if not illegally) placed in prisons, mental institutions, or other awful and restrictive environments.
- Starting an 800 number in each country to provide emergency information and referral to our peers, eventually.
- Creating an International Directory of our autistic peers. (Jerry Newport) Governmental entities should be required to seek out and discover where and in what condition those under their jurisdiction are living.
- Creating an international InternAUT Magazine, for autistics and by autistics, translated in the languages of all the participating countries.
- Intitiating research for treatment of autism spectrum disorders, especially directed towards adults. The vast majority of the research has been directed at children, but 70% of all autistics are adults.
- Education of the general public on autism spectrum disorders, in order to eliminate the misconception that autism is a trivial pediatric disease that children "grow out of" later.
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This list is, and should be, subject to continuous change. YOUR input
is required! Any more goals, anyone? Join the a-day discussion list
(see "Joining") and let us know!