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Autism Resources in Global

World-wide list of helpful organizations, tools and resource for people with Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asperger’s) and their caregivers.

Kuwait Center for Autism

Examines all International theories and philosophies of Autism Centers worldwide and maintains contact with all Arab and Foreign universities and Institutes which deal with Autism training programs. We adapt a philosophy that includes international theories and graft them by Islamic tinting and ensuring the Kuwaiti personality.

Manzil Center – UAE

Manzil is a non-profit Center that was officially inaugurated on February 7th 2005 by Sheikha Jameela Mohammed Al Qasimi, Director General, Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services. Meaning “Destination” in Urdu or “Home” in Arabic, Manzil caters to 42 students with cognitive disabilities (from 4 years onwards) with a staff of 27 making it a highly qualitative center with a significantly low student to staff ratio. The average experience of our teaching staff in the disability arena is over 13 years.

The organization is now spreading its wings further and is crossing international borders, doing inclusion research & consultancy and is also involved as an intellectual partner with Governmental entities. Manzil’s Ambassador of Inclusion is Chaica S. Al Qassimi. She is also a Self-advocate & representative of Inclusion MENA.

Monotropism

Monotropism is a theory of autism developed by autistic people, initially by Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson. This site is intended to be a central resource for learning about monotropism (as a theory) and monotropism (as a trait).

Motse Wa Badiri Camphill (Botswana)

A person should have the opportunity to realize his potential. In practice this means being able to offer individualized programs that help to counterbalance the limitations caused by disabilities. These programs can, potentially, be very broad including accommodation & board, social support, medical and therapeutic support, life skills training, vocational training and employment; or they can be as basic as offering a job that gives reasonable remuneration.

Nigerian Autistic Society (Nigeria)

Made up of parents, friends, professionals and students dedicated to the education and welfare of autistic people and to raise the visibility of autism and broadens services for individuals who have autism and related disorders of communication and behaviours in Nigeria.

Parent to Parent (New Zealand)

Parent to Parent is a support and information network for parents of children with special needs. Support is provided voluntarily by Trained Support Parents who have a child with the same or similar needs.

Seri Mengasih Centre (Malaysia)

A special developmental centre located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia providing a comprehensive range of training programmes for the intellectually and developmentally disabled and services for their families.

SMARTER Brunei

Training, education, and resources for autism in Brunei.

The Learning Resource Centre – LRC (Cairo, Egypt)

The LRC is an independent diagnostic and therapeutic unit, internationally recognized for providing an experienced and comprehensive multi disciplinary assessment and on going management service for children, adolescents and a limited number of adults. At the LRC, we have served around 150 families per year.

Tony Attwood

In this site you will find resources, information on Tony Attwood’s presentation schedule, messages and issues related to Asperger’s Syndrome, and papers he has written on related topics.