Autism2009 – the latest in Awares’ annual international online autism conferences – opens next Monday, November 30, 2009, and runs for a week. This event – which Professor Simon Baron-Cohen has called “the finest online conference of its type on the planet” – is run once again by Adam Feinstein, editor of Awares, the pioneering website of Autism Cymru, Wales’s national charity for autism.
 
Yet again, you will will have a unique opportunity to put your questions directly to the more than 60 of the world’s leading autism experts taking part, as well as thousands of delegates. Among the experts participating are: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor Susan Leekam, Dr Gary Mesibov, Donna Williams, Dr Wendy Lawson, Dr Susan Folstein, Merry Barua, Dr Darold Treffert,  Professor Stuart Murray, Stephen Shore, Thorkil Sonne, Dr Manuel Casanova, Dr Connie Kasari Dr Pamela Heaton, Dr Dirk Dossche, Dr Wendy Kates, Dr George Anderson, Dr Amanda Ludlow and Dr Susanne Bejerot.
 
Topics of discussion will include: education, behavioural issues, language impairments, neurology, genetics, immunology, Asperger’s syndrome, autism in adolescents and adults, employment, sensory issues, socialising difficulties, biomedical issues and approaches, related conditions and concepts of autism.
 
This conference is open to anyone with an interest in autism:  parents, carers, teachers, clinicians and other professionals, as well as individuals with autism themselves.
 
Don’t this miss this unique opportunity to put your questions directly to some of the world’s top autism authorities. You can register for Autism2009 right now at  www.awares.org/conferences  where you will find the speakers' papers. Once the conference opens next Monday, November 30, you will be able to direct your questions to the experts.
 
Please tell your friends and colleagues about this exciting event.
 
For further details, contact Adam Feinstein at: adam@autismcymru.org