Links

You can find more information at the following websites. Please send us a note (see Contacts) if you have a link you think we should add.

Autism.about.com is an American website with a great deal of well-written and up-to-date information. (When you get to the home page, look at the options on the left-hand side rather than the news items in the main body of the webpage.) It is quite commercial, however, and very oriented towards American parents and health services.

Autism South Africa, the country's national association for children and adults with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). The website comments: "... decreasing government assistance is hampering our expansion as regards educational facilities and the provision of adult services, but we will continue doing our utmost to improve this situation." The association has a newsletter called AUT-Talk covering the types of activities and activism that South African parents and groups are doing, and also provides links to autism schools and associations in different parts of the country.

Kids Health is a website which explains health questions in ways appropriate for well-educated older children and teenagers. Their page on autism gives a clear description of the condition.

National Autistic Society is the major advocacy body in the UK. It gives a sense of what kind of advocacy activities are possible, and also provides a great deal of other useful information.

The US Centers for Disease Control has a very complete set of web pages on autism, with many links to other organisations and to scientific information.

Parents interested in making sure their autistic children can participate in their religious practices, the webpage Religion and Autism on the website of the Autism Society of America’s provides interesting two articles. They relate mostly to the Christian and Jewish faiths, but many of the tips can be applied to all religions.