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>Hello, here is the latest update to autismconnect: > >1. Online discussion with Merry Barua (India) >2. News Headlines >3. Wish to unsubscribe? >4. How to change your email and/or topic selection > > >1. Online discussion with Merry Barua: On >autismconnect >(www.autismconnect.org) Tuesday 2nd April at 20:00hrs >India time (14:30 hrs GMT), >Merry Barua will be answering questions with relevance >to developing >nations on topics regarding: >Services >Diagnosis >Early Intervention >Education Awareness >Biomedical approaches >General >(Please copy and paste the following web address into >your >browser and convert to your time zone >www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc). >Brief Biography > >Merry Barua a former journalist and social activist, >felt called to a >new vocation when faced by her son's autism. Initially >devastated - she >rallied herself and looked for ways in which she could >help find a way >out. Shocked by the abysmal level of awareness - leave >alone >appropriate services - and the terribly negative and >dismal prognosis that was >the lot of the over 2 million people with autism in >the Indian >subcontinent - Merry went about educating herself, so >she could find ways to >teach her son basic skills to function , communicate >and interact with the >world - and then naturally progressed to helping >others. She founded >what has become India's national organisation for >autism - Action For >Autism (http://www.autism-india.org/) - a non profit >NGO - that provides >training for parents and professionals and therapeutic >and advocacy >services for the autistic community in India. > >2. News Headlines - go to www.autismconnect.org to >find out more >THIEVES STEAL RECORDS OF PARENTS WHO HAVE REJECTED MMR >JAB ... >AUTISM CASES INCREASE EIGHTFOLD IN 15 YEARS IN NEW >ZEALAND ... >MERCURY POISONING-AUTISM LINK? FIRST CASES HIT THE >COURTS IN US ... >WHAT A PICTURE! TAPPING INTO VISUAL SKILLS OF PEOPLE >WITH AUTISM - By >autismconnect Editor Adam Feinstein. > >3. Wish to unsubscribe? > >Only those that subscribe to autismconnect are added >to this email list >which is usually distributed monthly. However, if you >wish to >unsubscribe, RETURN this email and type unsubscribe in >the subject. > > > >4. How to change your email address and/or topic >selection > >If your email address has changed or you wish to >change the >topics of interest, please go to: 'personal notice >board' from the home >page and then to 'update registration details'. >Best wishes >autismconnect Team
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