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  2. Wikipedia:Autistic editors - Wikipedia

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    Students and families walk to support Autism Awareness Month. Wikipedia is the ultimate honeypot! If a group of researchers had been given the task of creating a working/hobby environment specifically designed to attract autistic people, they could not have come up with anything better than Wikipedia!

  3. Social Stories - Wikipedia

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    Social Stories are a concept devised by Carol Gray in 1991 to improve the social skills of people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). [3] The objective is to share information, which is often through a description of the events occurring around the subject and also why. [4]

  4. List of month-long observances - Wikipedia

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    Arab American Heritage Month; Autism Acceptance Month [11] Cancer Control Month; Confederate History Month; Dalit History Month; Financial Literacy Month [12] Jazz Appreciation Month; Mathematics Awareness Month [13] [14] National Child Abuse Prevention Month [15] [16] National Pet Month (United Kingdom) National Poetry Month; National Poetry ...

  5. NEXT for AUTISM - Wikipedia

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    NEXT for AUTISM is a non-profit organization founded in 2003 to address the needs of autistic people and their families. The organization was founded by Laura and Harry Slatkin and Ilene Lainer. One of NEXT for AUTISM's most well known accomplishments was opening the first charter school in New York to exclusively serve autistic students.

  6. List of schools for people on the autism spectrum - Wikipedia

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    The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), [Fresno] - A specialized institution providing educational and therapeutic services to individuals with autism spectrum disorder. [ 2 ] Connecticut

  7. Autistic Self Advocacy Network - Wikipedia

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    Before 2015, John Elder Robison was the only autistic person ever to serve on Autism Speaks's board of directors. He later resigned in protest against the organization. [61] In 2015, Autism Speaks made a commitment to provide better representation by appointing two autistic people to its 26-member board of directors.

  8. World Autism Awareness Day - Wikipedia

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    The original resolution had four main components: the establishment of the second day of April as World Autism Awareness Day, [11] beginning in 2008 invitation to Member States and other relevant organizations to the UN or the international societal system, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to create initiatives to raise public awareness of autism

  9. Double empathy problem - Wikipedia

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    The theory of the double empathy problem is a psychological and sociological theory first coined in 2012 by Damian Milton, an autistic autism researcher. [2] This theory proposes that many of the difficulties autistic individuals face when socializing with non-autistic individuals are due, in part, to a lack of mutual understanding between the two groups, meaning that most autistic people ...