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On the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICCHY) web site provides general information about autisim and pervasive developmental disorders as well as a general file on pervasive developmental disorder. Many of their excellent resources are alos available in Spanish, Publicaciones en Espa–ol TEACCH's 20 Questions page provides valuable basic information about autism Useful info about Autism Autistic Savant Autism-related Disorders in DSM-IV Autism Frequently Asked Questions Memo, December 14, 1995 Autism and Brain Development Research Laboratory The Autism Research Foundation focuses on pathology of the brain in autism and related disorders Bernard Rimland's Autism Research Institute, with links on many topics, including original editorials by Rimland The Center for the Study of Autism (Oregon) provides extensive resources The Autism Society of America, The (UK) Society for the Autistically Handicapped The (UK) National Autistic Society The autism channel home page Autism Conferences Autism Network International ALAS (All Lewisham Autism Support) Gary Mirkin's web site for the National Alliance for Autism Research There are also many local and regional oganizations, including The resources provided by NIH's National Institute on Neuorological Disorders and Stroke on autism (also available in briefer form) and Asperger's Syndrome Janet Norman-Bain has assembled an extensive set of resources under the delightful title Ooops...Wrong Planet! Syndrome John Wobus' Autism Resources, which are extensive Steve Cory's geographical and topical links about autism resources Judith Griffin pages for the Autism Society of Wisconsin (see above, too) include an extensive list of relevant links Asperger's Syndrome Resources Subject: Autism and coeliac disease Yale University's Autism/PDD Clinic Home Page Project #227: Autism, Aphasia and Other Development Disabilities - Biological Studies Inofrmation about the video, The Doctor Is In: AUTISM Dave's Autism Info Page, another UK resource with good info. One Mom's View, Anne Maclellan's site providing her unique perspective and list of resources. Bryony's pages on autism with info about her son, Stuart. The World of Autism provides biographical sketches and first-person reports about autism. People searching the Internet for information about treating autism (and other problems) should read S. Starin's article, "Critically Evaluating Treatment Effectiveness: Internet Search Tips for Consumers," before continuing their search. Our page of information about treating autism with secretin M. Winston's description of discrete trails training. Jason Wallin described discrete trails procedures as a part of the polyxo.com site on autism. The Autism Society of America has valuable papers about the treatment of autism by various methods available as PDF documents The Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina includes Division TEACCH, a long-standing project on autism. In 1989, the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference issued a statement on the treatment of descrutive behaviors; "destructive behaviors" includes self-injurious behavior (SIB) and aggression toward others or toward property S. Gabison, mother of a child on the autism spectrum, has a commercial site, ABA Educational Resources Limited, that includes some worthwhile free information in addition to the for-fee materials. Lisa S. Lewis' page on dietary interventions and the related page on the Autism Network for Dietary Intervention Prediction of Attention in Autism from Single-Trial EEG Using Artificial Neural Networks The Son-Rise Program For Families With Special-Needs Children - Autism An Experimental Intervention For Autism Life without Order: Literature, Psychology, and Autism Shapes for Learning, with a page of links Future Education's autism page, from a commercial publisher focusing on autism