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Autism Speaks Inc. is an American non-profit autism awareness organization and the largest autism research organization in the United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public. [ 4 ]
He is a poet, a singer-songwriter, an international speaker and a writer. He is the author of Soon Will Come the Light: A View From Inside the Autism Puzzle and Light On the Horizon: A Deeper View From Inside the Autism Puzzle. [1] [2] McKean has claimed that he did not speak until he was 16, but was able to describe how autism was like to him ...
Autism Every Day is a controversial 2006 documentary film sponsored by Autism Speaks, and produced by Lauren Thierry, Jim Watkins and Eric Solomon. [1] It follows mothers of high support needs autistic children, and consists mainly of interviews with the mothers.
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In 1964–7, Australian autistic people and their parents founded what is now Autism SA (1964), [228] the Autistic Children's Association of New South Wales (now Aspect, 1966), [229] Victorian Autistic Children's and Adult's Association (now Amaze, 1967), [230] Autistic Children's Association of Queensland (now Autism Queensland, 1967), [231 ...
Dawson was on faculty at the University of Washington from 1980 to 2008 when she left to become Autism Speaks' first chief science officer. [8] At Autism Speaks, Dawson oversaw $20–30 million in annual research funding, including funding for the Autism Treatment Network, the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange , the Autism Genome Project, and ...
In October 2011, AGRE announced a plan to create the world's largest library of sequenced human genomes of individuals with autism-related genes, representing 2000 families and 10000 individuals. [ citation needed ] To do this, AGRE will provide specimens to the Beijing Genomics Institute , who would perform the sequencing.
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