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This site is dedicated to providing information to parents and children who live with the challenges of autism.  The goal is to help guide and support the educational, emotional, spiritual, and social welfare of children with autism and their families in all aspects of our community.

Autism Coalition

The Autism Coalition raises funds, distributes grants, and raises public awareness about autism. We also advocate for greater investments in autism research and education. Click on the links below to find out more about our efforts on each front.

Autism National Committee

Autcom is an autism advocacy organization dedicated to "Social Justice for All Citizens with Autism" through a shared vision and a commitment to positive approaches. Our organization was founded in 1990 to protect and advance the human rights and civil rights of all persons with autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and related differences of communication and behavior. In the face of social policies of devaluation, which are expressed in the practices of segregation, medicalization, and aversive conditioning, we assert that all individuals are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Autism Network International (ANI)

Autism Network International is an autistic-run self-help and advocacy organization for autistic people. ANI helps autistic people who are unable to participate directly by providing information and referrals for parents and teachers, and by educating the public about autism.

Autism Networks 

There are many organizations that help a small population  around their immediate area, and most are only able to help the English speaking population. As a result, those who do not speak English are left out in the cold.
Autism Networks' goal is to use the latest technology to provide autism related resources to parents and professionals around the world, no matter what language they speak.  IDEA clearly states that special education programs must use "proven methods of teaching and learning" and must be based on "replicable research." Our workshops provide professional development coursework to ensure that school administrators, teachers and assistants have the tools needed to be in compliance with this IDEA expectation.  Autism Networks also provides supervision to school districts, pre-schools, daycare centers and home based programs. Our dynamic group consists of behavioral psychologists, special educators and speech/language pathologists, who are well versed in a variety of teaching modalities from TEACCH to Applied Behavior Analysis to PECS.

Autism One

Autism One is a nonprofit organization 501(3)(c) started by a small group of parents of children with autism to address three areas: education, advocacy, and fundraising. Parents are and must remain the driving force of our community, the stakes are too high and the issues too scared to delegate to outside interests.

Autism Society of America (ASA)

The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong access and opportunity for all individuals within the autism spectrum, and their families, to be fully participating, included members of their community. Education, advocacy at state and federal levels, active public awareness and the promotion of research form the cornerstones of ASA's efforts to carry forth its mission.

Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks is an initiative devoted to educating the public about autism, facilitating and funding research, motivating private and governmental resources, and, ultimately, helping to find a cure for autism.

COSAC

The New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (COSAC) is a non-profit agency providing information and advocacy, services, family and professional education, and consultation to New Jersey's autism community. COSAC encourages responsible basic and applied research that would lead to a lessening of the effects and potential prevention of autism. COSAC is dedicated to ensuring that all people with autism receive appropriate, effective services to maximize their growth potential and to enhancing the overall awareness of autism in the general public.

Council for Exceptional Children

The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.

Cure Autism Now (CAN)

Cure Autism Now (CAN) is an organization of parents, clinicians and leading scientists committed to accelerating the pace of biomedical research in autism through raising money for research projects, education and outreach. Founded by parents of children with autism in 1995, the organization has grown from a kitchen-table effort to the largest provider of support for autism research and resources in the country. The organization's primary focus is to fund essential research through a variety of programs designed to encourage innovative approaches toward identifying the causes, prevention, treatment and a cure for autism and related disorders.

Dan Marino Foundation

Founded by legendary Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and his wife, Claire, The Dan Marino Foundation supports programs that provide integrated intervention services for children with autism and other special needs.

Developmental Delay Resources

A nonprofit organization dedicated to meeting the needs of those working with children who have developmental delays in sensory motor, language, social, and emotional areas. DDR publicizes research into determining identifiable factors that would put a child at risk and maintains a registry, tracking possible trends. DDR also provides a network for parents and professionals and current information after the diagnosis to support children with special needs.

National Autism Association

The mission of the National Autism Association is to advocate, educate, and empower. We will advocate on behalf of those who cannot fight for their own rights. We will raise public and professional awareness of autism spectrum disorders. We will empower those in the autism community to never give up in their search to help their loved ones reach their full potential.

National Center for Children with Learning Disabilities (NCLD)

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) works to ensure that the nation’s 15 million children, adolescents and adults with learning disabilities have every opportunity to succeed in school, work and life. NCLD provides essential information to parents, professionals and individuals with learning disabilities, promotes research and programs to foster effective learning, and advocates for policies to protect and strengthen educational rights and opportunities.

New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities

The New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities, originally sanctioned as  the New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council, is authorized by the federal Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act and New Jersey state law to promote systems change, coordinate advocacy and research for 1.2 million residents with developmental and other disabilities.

Parents of Autistic Children

Founded in 1999, POAC's mission is to improve the lives of children and adults with autism by providing scientifically-based training to parents, teachers, and other direct service providers. POAC's purpose from the beginning was to involve "stakeholders" in the highest level of decision making regarding the education and treatment of children with autism. POAC's advisory board consists ONLY of parents, professionals and paraprofessionals that have demonstrated clinical expertise in teaching children with developmental disabilities. 

Ride for Autism.org

The Ride for Autism was conceived in a bicycle shop in Matawan, New Jersey in 1999, by a cyclist with a son with autism and one of the shop’s owners with a nephew with autism. After discovering what they had in common, the two searched to find and ride in a charity bicycle event that would benefit individuals with autism. Failing to find a single one in the whole country, they decided to create one: the "Ride for Autism." The Ride for Autism is put on by Ride for Autism, Inc., a nonprofit New Jersey corporation organized solely for charitable purposes.

SchwabLearning.org

Schwab Learning is an operating program of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, a private, nonprofit foundation that funds programs in learning disabilities and human services. Schwab Learning provides free information, resources, publications and support to parents of children who struggle with learning and to kids themselves through two websites and Outreach and Community Services.

The Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism

The Foundation's mission is to aid financially disadvantaged families who need assistance in caring for their children with autism; to fund education and research into the causes and consequences of childhood autism; and to serve as a clearinghouse and communications center for new programs and services developed for individuals with autism.

World Autism Organization

The World Autism Organization (WAO), officially announced on November 21 1998 in Luxembourg, a main goal to help make better the quality of life of autistic people and that of their families throughout the world.