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Subject: Re: Online discussion with Merry Barua

Author:
shani demirtunc

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Date Posted: 15:08:59 06/19/02 Wed
Author Host/IP: webcacheB11a.cache.pol.co.uk/195.92.168.173
In reply to: autismconnect Team 's message, "Online discussion with Merry Barua" on 17:37:49 03/27/02 Wed

>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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Re: Online discussion with Merry Barua	Chowdhury Monoram Barua	14:34:59 06/04/03 Wed