New web articles and the latest issue of autism newsletter, LOOKING UP

[Adam]

Hi everyone,
We have recently made four more articles available free of charge from
www.lookingupautism.org/Articles

The latest, packed edition of Looking Up, out soon, includes:

- A detailed and truly global look back at how campaigners across the
planet marked United Nations World Autism Awareness Day
- French parents of autistic children fight the horrors of 'le
packing'
- What's in a diagnosis? 'Pressure from council officials' led to
withdrawal of boy's autism label
- Didi Conn (who played Frenchy in the film Grease) on life with an
autistic son
- Best-selling author Nick Hornby on the autism postcode lottery
- Exciting new genetic findings
- Portuguese parliamentarians banned from inapprorpriate use of the
terms "autism" and "autistic"
- SPECIAL REPORT: Can people "recover" from autism? Interview with
Raun
Kaufman, director of the Son-Rise Institute, who claims he has done
just that - and new research from Deborah Fein in Connecticut
suggesting that this is indeed possible in some cases
- ASPERGER'S SYNDROME SPECIAL: The fullest account yet of the story
of
Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker with Asperger's syndrome facing
extradition from Britain to the United States; The cortisol
connection
- AUTISM IN AFRICA: Reports from Algeria and Ghana
- AUTISM IN ASIA: Japan and Indonesia

You can find more details about how to obtain Looking Up by going to
the website (www.lookingupautism.org). You will also find full
contents of all back issues, as well as many other free articles from
previous editions (including interviews with Dr Gary Mesibov, Dr Tony
Attwood, Theo Peeters, Dr Eric Courchesne, Professor Digby Tantam and
Professor Christopher Gillberg), and extracts from other articles.

Please feel free to e-mail me if you need further information.

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

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