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Planned Chicken Soup For the Soul Release is now Accepting Submissions on All Types of “Exceptional” Conditions

JANUARY, 2006 Chicken Soup For the Soul ® is once again gearing up for another life altering, enriching book and is currently inviting contributors from all around the world to submit their stories. A Chicken Soup for the Soul® story is typically an inspirational, true story about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. It is a story that opens the heart and rekindles the spirit.

The new Chicken Soup For the Soul ® release will be an entire collection of “special and exceptional needs” stories. These include the following areas: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders including Asperger syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Deafness-Hearing Loss, Down syndrome, Tourette’s syndrome, affective disorders, Epilepsy, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Severe and or Multiple Disabilities, Speech-Language Impairments, Spina Bifida, Traumatic Brain Injury, visual impairment, life threatening illness and other related “special need” categories.

A Chicken Soup for the Soul® story is a living art piece that touches the soul of readers and helps them discover basic principles that people can use in their own lives. These stories are deeply personal and often filled with emotion and drama. In some stories, the readers may actually feel they are in the scene right alongside the characters. The most powerful Chicken Soup stories are about people extending themselves, or performing an act of love, service or courage for another person.

Chicken Soup for the Soul® stories have heart, but also something extra…an element that makes readers feel more hopeful and well-connected as well as more thankful, passionate and better about life in general. All Chicken Soup for the Soul® contributions are stories that cause tears, laughter, goose-bumps or any combination of these. They create genuine emotion rather than simply talking about it and cover an entire range of human emotions.

Authors Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Karen Simmons and Heather McNamara are collecting these stories as well as title suggestions for the new book through the website chickensoupstories.com.

Submission deadline is March 31st 2006. To learn more, contact: Deardra Peters or Karen Simmons at 780-482-1555 email: karen@autismtoday.com or visit: www.chickensoupstories.com

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The Official Autism 101 Manual Providing a Collection of the World’s Leading Autism Experts–All in One Place

JANUARY, 2006 : With more than 40 expert contributors, The Official Autism 101 Manual provides the ultimate resource for understanding and responding to autism as a parent or a professional. This important collection brings together all the very latest ideas and insights from well-known and trusted authors and experts - plus many new voices – all together for the very first time anywhere.

Presented by AutismToday.Com, the leading online resource for autism – The Official Autism 101 Manual is the very first and only resource of its kind for the entire autism community. The Manual provides exclusive links to related experts, websites, services, and products plus a complete range of valuable perspectives, approaches, and treatment methods.

Available in regular book as well as e-book format, The Official Autism 101 Manual is designed for patients, parents and professionals alike. For parents and patients the manual provides a complete overview of the big picture—and can be used as a constant companion providing an insightful collection of the world’s leading Autism experts–all in one place. Professionals will also find the book useful in order to enhance their practice and expertise, enabling them to share with clients, colleagues, students, and parents the available community of support.

Semi-annual updates are also available in order to keep readers current and up-to-date with the very latest autism information. Scheduled for release in January 2006, Pre-orders are available at: http://www.autism101manual.com

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Autism Education Online Now Offering 12 Courses via the Internet

JANUARY, 2006: AutismToday.Com, the leading online resource for autism and Autism Education Online, are offering a unique and enriching series of 12 different online courses which address a range of issues relating to Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Autism Education Online is an online-enabled program bringing together world renowned authorities such as Dr. Tony Attwood into user’s home or office through any computer and an internet connection. Through the use of streaming audio and a integrated PowerPoint presentations each professionally recorded audio program allows users to experience each course online from any where in the world - at any time.

Each online course is up to two and a half hours in length and costs only $49.97 each. Multiple courses are also available for a discount. Three courses are available for only $99.97, while a package price for all 12 courses is only $299. Due to popular demand, Autism Today also offers this valuable educational series with accompanying CDs as well.

Topics covered in the courses include:

• Bridges to Adulthood for Learners with ASD - Peter F. Gearhardt, Ed.D discusses transition programming for adolescents and adults with ASD and provides the information needed to develop a personalized transition plan.

• Early Intervention For The Autistic Child - Hanna Alomin explains that paying attention to the autistic child’s innate abilities provides the cornerstone for therapy.

• Effective Counselling of Persons with HFA & AS - Nathan Ory, M.A. discusses how to self manage anxious thinking and explains how to avoid some of the typical traps of literal thinking, overgeneralizati…

• Life On And Slightly To The Right Of The Autism Spectrum - Stephen M. Shore, an individual with autism, focuses on how the environment is perceived by those with ASD and on practical…

• Making Friends - Dr. Tony Attwood explains how to encourage friendship skills in children and adolescents with Asperger’s syndrome and High-Functioning Autism.

• Managing Feelings - Dr. Tony Attwood explains a new education and therapy program for individuals with autism to help manage emotions.

• Metallothionein Deficiency In Autism - William J. Walsh, PhD talks about metallothionein deficiency, how it effects individuals with ASD, and how to combat it using special techniques.

• Son-Rise Program - Raun K. Kaufman, who was diagnosed at 18 months with autism, focuses on specific strategies that will have an immediate impact on children challenged by ASDs.

• Special Diets For Special Kids - Lisa S. Lewis relays recent research that supports the use of dietary interventions for individuals on the autism continuum.

• Supporting Children and Adults with Persistent, Repetitive Behavior - Nathan E. Ory, M.A. discusses evaluation of repetitive behavior and how to use structure to assist in transitions.

• The Picture Exchange Communication System - Andy Bondy Ph.D describes the unique augmentative communication system he co-developed for those find it difficult to use speech as a primary mode of communication.

• Thimerosal (Mercury) & Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Dr. Mark Geier presents… An overview of the latest population epidemiology, clinical, molecular, and animal model evidence will be reviewed showing a dire…

• What’s New in the World of Autism - Dr. Temple Grandin discusses the unique ways that people with autism process information and what is new in the area of brain research.

• What’s New in the World of Autism - Part Two - Dr. Temple Grandin delves into sensory/sensitivity issues, challenges with language and learning, and the newest medications available.

Further details and registration information is available by visiting: http://www.autismeducationonline.com

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Best Selling Author David Kirby to Appear in Canada for One-of-a-Kind Telephone Conference

JANUARY, 2006: On April 28th, 2005, David Kirby, New York Times contributor and author of Amazon.com’s best-selling book “Evidence Of Harm”, A Medical Controversy will appear in Canada for the first time. AutismToday.com has made exclusive arrangements to have Kirby present a one of a kind live Telephone Conference on the topic of mercury and vaccines in relation to the recent epidemic of autism, ADD, ADHD, speech delays and other disorders with today’s children. The acclaimed author will explore both sides of the controversy (Mercury in Vaccines & The Autism Epidemic), which has pitted families and their allies against the federal government, public health agencies, and powerful pharmaceutical giants.

Kirby will provide a special 2-hour telephone forum on the mercury issue and address available treatment options as well as answer questions and concerns during this first ever live personal telephone conversation. AutismToday.com will also make available an accompanying “virtual classroom” Windows™-based Power Point Presentation available to all registrants of the event.

Kirby will examine and explain:

• The story of Thimerosal: a mercury-based additive approved by the FDA in the 1930’s as a vaccine preservative and never subsequently tested by the Agency.
• The increase in reported autism cases and apparent parallel to the increase in number and frequency of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations.
• How at private meetings the FDA, CDC, medical and pharmaceutical company representatives discussed data on neurological childhood disorders related to mercury in vaccines.
• A mysterious rider to the 2002 Homeland Security bill which would free drug companies of liability in lawsuits regarding Thimerosal.
• State and federal lawsuits filed by families against the drug makers seeking compensation for the lifelong care of their ill children.
• Whether there a link to common vaccinations and autism and whether are children developing learning disabilities as a result of their shots?
• Whether it is possible to get mercury poisoning from a vaccination?
• New biological research indicating a link between Thimerosal exposure and neurological disorders.

The 2 Hour Telephone Conference is scheduled to take place on April 28th, 2005 from 6:00-8:00 PM PT (9:00 - 11:00 PM ET) and is offered with a 100% satisfaction and money back guarantee. As a very extra special bonus, each registration also will include a copy of David’s book which will be sent absolutely free.

Further details and registration information is available at:
http://www.autismtoday.com/evidenceofharmteleclass.htm