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ASD Conference UCC Cork

  • 17-01-2011 3:18pm
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    Eric Isherwood
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭


    Today I write to you not only as a parent but as someone who would like to make a change for parents of children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). I would like to draw your attention to our conference (for which I am just one of a committee) that will take place on March 12, 2011, at UCC from 9.30am-5pm.

    We look at the 'Let's Connect' conference as a perfect opportunity for us all to come together on the day and set up a meeting of minds. The agenda is open so it's more of a forum where every speaker will do a Q&A afterwards. We will have speakers such as Ms. Polly Tommey from the UK who has an autistic son and has campaigned worldwide and even did a controversial Hello Boys Billboard Campaign during the last UK election wearing just a wonderbra! Also we will have Dr Caroline Winstanly, a specialist in autism, and we will have the flamboyant but never lost for words Senator David Norris.


    I will speak myself on my 24 years as a parent of autistic twins and also my plans for the future.


    Research has made such a pivotal difference in helping find wonderful treatments for ASD sufferers: in fact research and learning makes that difference each day.


    For those born with autism today time is critical: without proper funding, those desperately needed breakthroughs will simply take longer. We can't delay because for children with autism early diagnoses, and early intervention, can in the long term keep them out of residential care homes and help them live a mainstream life.


    At the conference we will also remember those who have ASD right through to adulthood.


    My wife Veronica and I have had 24 years of struggling to get services for our twin boys (3 years they were in America; started schooling at 12 in this country and flung out at 18).


    New figures in the UK suggest that 1 in 60 children born today will develop autism. When my sons where born in the mid-80s, it was 1 in 500. Forget the" WHO" pushing the panic button on swine flu, we have already got an epidemic and its name is Autism!


    Any support that you can give us in publicising the conference would be greatly appreciated. More information is available on www.letsconnectautismconference2011.weebly.com

    You can email me at ericisherwood@gmail.com or ring me @ [URL="tel:021%202392985"]021 2392985[/URL]

    Yours Faithfully,

    Eric Isherwood

    http://youtu.be/kPuGmK64e2w

    www.letsconnectautismconference2011.weebly.com
    *Please Pass on Information to friends*

    Committee Eric Isherwood, .James O Shea Val Davin, Colin Mckeon Cllr. Kieran McCarthy Andrew Breslin Leanne O Donovon, Mary Rice


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