Autism One 2005 Conference May 26 - 29 Chicago Marriott O'Hare Hotel

Main Category: Autism
Article Date: 27 Apr 2005 - 9:00 PDT


Autism One's national conference for parents and professionals for the care, treatment, and recovery of children with autism.

Our Children Get Better

The autism epidemic conservatively affects 1 in 166 children; 1 in 88 boys; 1 in 68 families. Corresponding to the endemic rise over the past decade treatments and therapies have been developed which greatly increase our ability to help children with autism.

Our children get better; many recover of improve dramatically given the proper treatments and therapies. Understanding the various options provide parents and professionals the tools most needed to benefit our children.

Most Comprehensive

The most comprehensive conference on autism ever assembled now offers greater focus to help you address specific needs, shorten your learning curve, and bring you quickly up to speed.

Questions and answers do not stop at the boundary of a discipline. Multivariate in presentation and cure autism bows to the collective weight of doctors working with therapists working with educators working with parents working to recover their children.

Our children benefit from an inter-disciplinary approach. Autism One 2005 is proud to feature over 100 of the leading experts presenting in four tracks to help you make the best decisions:

1. Biomedical Treatments
2. Behavior / Communication / Education Therapies
3. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
4. Government / Legal / Personal Issues

You will meet and learn from such outstanding experts as Dr. Jill James, Dr. Rashid Buttar, Dr. Mady Hornig, Dr. Richard Deth, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and Dr. Temple Grandin to name only a few. You will be inspired by the progress across disciplines reported by practitioners and parents.

We are pleased David Kirby, author of Evidence of Harm, will deliver the keynote address. David has written a fascinating book chronicling much of our community's recent history, including the big picture power plays, while detailing the struggle and obstacles each of us as parents face.

Greater Focus

This year we are introducing a number of important changes to provide what we are calling a "lived experience." Conferences have a tendency to talk at you. That's not good enough. Real learning occurs at a deeper level; a level that combines the abstract with the practical. Initiatives include:

1. The Mentor Program: You may request a mentor. Mentors are fellow-parents with recovered children or children well on their way to recovery.

2. Three Mini-Tracks: 1. Parents New to the diagnosis; 2. Puberty, Adolescence and Adulthood and; 3. Environmental Medicine/Issues.

3. Pre-Conference Day, GFCF and SCD - Culinary Delight: The Pre-Conference day is devoted to hands-on cooking to take the mystery out of gluten- casein-free and specific carbohydrate diets.

4. Gluten/Casein free items on breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus: Menu options will include gluten- and casein-free for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Have a taste, it's good.

A partial list of topics, by track, include:

1. Track - Biomedical Treatments
Autoimmune factors / treatments
Biochemistry of autism
Casein- gluten-free diet
Chelation - many forms of
Dental care
Diagnosis
Enzymes
Essential fatty acids
Food / nutrition / diet / vitamins / minerals / organic foods
Environmental medicine / toxins
IVIG, transfer factors, IV glutathione
Neurological testing, findings, treatments
Phenol sulfur transferase deficiency
Ongoing research
Vaccinations

2. Track - Behavior / Communication / Education Therapies
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Auditory Integration
Computers as learning tools
Greenspan / Floor time
Home schooling
Music therapy
Occupational Therapy
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
Pivotal Response Training (PVT)
Psychological counseling, testing
Puberty and beyond
Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)
Supra-Modal Integrative Learning Experience (SMILE)
Sensory Integration
Verbal Behavior
Vision Integration

3. Track - Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Ayurveda Medicine
Chiropractic
Detoxification
Environmental medicine
Homeopathy
Naturopathic Medicine
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment
Mother's milk
Neurofeedback
Neural organization technique
Orthomolecular Medicine
Raw milk
Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

4. Track - Government / Legal / Personal Issues
Adolescence
Adult services
Autism the law and you
Counseling - coping and communication for parents
Dealing with insurance companies
Estate Planning
How to be your own best advocate
Individual Evaluation Plans (IEPs)
Legislative action
Obtaining government services
Puberty
School systems
Vaccines the law and you

A partial list of speakers include:

Lisa Ackerman
James B. Adams, PhD
Christina Adams, MFA
Tapan Audhya, PhD
David Ayoub, MD
Sallie Bernard
Mark Blaxill
Judith Bluestone
Mary Bolles
Jeff Bradstreet, MD
Barbara Brewitt, PhD
Kathy Brunner
Julie Burk
Rashid Buttar, DO
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
Jeff Cantor, DDS
Laura Cellini
Gayle Christensen
Beth Clay
Peta Cohen, MS, RD
John DeHoney
Richard Deth, PhD
G. Alexander Doman
Mary Anne Ehlert
Barbara Loe Fisher
Andrew and Carolyn Gammicchia
Donna Gates
Kim Garvey-Hoehne
David and Mark Geier, MD, PhD
Jody Goddard
Temple Grandin, PhD
Doreen Granpeesheh, PhD
John Green, MD
Boyd Haley, PhD
J.B. Handley
Kathie Harrington, MA
Martha Herbert, MD
Betsy Hicks
John Hicks, MD
David L. Holmes, PhD
Mady Hornig, MD
Devin Houston, PhD
Jill James, PhD
Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, DN-C, RH
David Kirby
Lori Knowles
Vale Krenik
Jean Kulczyk
Michael Lang
Suzette Lawrence
Patty Lemer
Allen Lewis, MD
Carolyn Lewis
Joy Lunt, RN
Tamara Mariea, CCN
Terri McCreedy
Mary Megson, MD
John Melnychuk, RSHom(NA) CCH
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD
Deborah Michael
James Neubrander, MD
Seth Pearl, DC
Cindy Peters
Mary Romaniec
Lenny Schafer
Mark Schauss
Jeff Sell, Esq.
Chantal Sicile-Kira
Stephen Shore
Teri Small
Andrea Sovern
KP Stoller, MD
Debra Swain, PhD
Lisa Sykes
Denise Tarasuk
Robert Ullman, ND and Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, ND
Anju Usman, MD
Sueson Vess
Andrew Wakefield, MB BS FRCS FRCPath
William Walsh, PhD
Deborah Zelinsky, OD

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