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• The CIHR's Autism Agenda - What Is It?

  Published: October 6, 2007, 3:06 pm

  Tags: Stephen Harper, Rene Quiron, National Autism Symposium, Barbara Beckett, Autism Disorder

  of the CIHR' s secretive National Autism Symposium is the fact that there is still, one month before the chosen ones gather behind closed doors at the Toronto Airport, no publicly available agenda, no list of speakers, and no list of names of the chosen ones.In this exercise in "community building above all" who will be representing the

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• Stephen Harper's Open Agenda And What It Means for Autism in Canada

  Published: October 7, 2007, 1:19 pm

  Tags: Stephen Harper, Throne Speech, National Autism Symposium, National Autism Strategy, Autism Disorder, Autism Advocacy, Federal Spending, Aba In Medicare Now

  will have full coverage.Many autism advocates, from all regions of Canada, and from all political party backgrounds, are determined to fight hard for a National Autism Strategy of substance, something more than a mediocre web page and a secretive, orchestrated, Autism Symposium of government selected delegates. To have hope of being successful

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• CIHR's Invisible National Autism Symposium

  Published: October 8, 2007, 7:06 pm

  Tags: Cihr, Stephen Harper, National Autism Symposium, Autism Disorder

  of the Harper GovernmentCIHR National Autism Symposium. The Autism Symposium was touted as ABOVE ALL an exercise in .... community building. Except that the community reps were all hand picked by the CIHR, without input from the provincial Autism Societies or FEAT organizations.The agenda, list of speakers, and list of invited guests, are all

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• National Autism Symposium Script Released

  Published: October 21, 2007, 5:49 am

  Tags: Cihr, Stephen Harper, National Autism Symposium, Pay Now Pay Later, Autism Disorder, Research Autism

  will be revealed in the National Autism Symposium Stage Production as having foolishly leaped to the conclusion that ABA is the treatment of choice for autism and should not be accepted as evidence of a consensus about autism treatments.These are some elements of the script which will be followed at the Stephen Harper National Autism

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• CIHR Autism "Partnerships" and "Community Building" LOL

  Published: October 26, 2007, 6:28 am

  Tags: Cihr, National Autism Symposium, Autis Awareness, Autism Disorders

  deciding on behalf of the autism communities in Canada who will represent them at the National Autism Symposium. By bypassing the provincial autism societies and FEAT organizations, and in some cases rejecting names that these organizations put forth, by concealing from the public and the media any information whatsoever about who would be

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• Paralysis by Analysis - FEAT BC Comment On Harper Government National Autism Symposium

  Published: November 7, 2007, 4:23 am

  Tags: Stephen Harper, National Autism Symposium, Combating Autism Act 2006, Autism Disorders, Dr Sabrina Freeman, Jean Lewis, Feat Bc, Australia

  the invitation only National Autism Symposium FEAT BC calls the Symposium what it is - an otherwise meaningless tool to create a false impression of action by a Conservative government which is outrageously indifferent to the plight of autistic children in Canada and, by comparison to the autism efforts of national governments of the

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• Canada's Autism Disgrace

  Published: December 12, 2007, 5:20 am

  Tags: Jim Munson, Peter Stoffer, Stephen Harper, Michelle Dawson, Andy Scott, Asat, Canada S Autism Disgrace, Madsec, Shawn Murphy, Laurent Mottron, National Autism Symposium, Aap, Autism

  of autistic Canadians.The National Autism Strategy of Prime Minister Harper really amounted to nothing but a mediocre web site and a promise of a National Autism Symposium. The National Autism Symposium was postponed when it became clear that real autism advocates, parents fighting for their autistic children, wanted to attend the symposium.

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• Autism Consultation: US (Transparent) v Canada (Secretive)

  Published: December 20, 2007, 11:05 am

  Tags: Cihr, National Autism Symposium, Autism Research, Autism Disorders, Nih, Autism Awareness, Autism Advocacy

  the CIHR cancelled a planned National Autism Symposium when it found out that autism parent advocates wanted to play a real part in the symposium. It was rescheduled and described as a "research" symposium, with secretive, limited invitees, and with the implication that the parents who live 24/7, 52 weeks a year with autism realities could not

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• Canada's Sham Autism Symposium Failure and the Need for a REAL National Autism Strategy

  Published: March 20, 2008, 7:52 am

  Tags: Cihr, National Autism Symposium, National Autism Strategy, Autism Disorders, Tony Clement, Autism Society New Brunswick, Dr R Mi Quirion, Asd, Autism

  National Autism Symposium was supposed to be a key plank in the Harper government's otherwise pathetically weak National Autism Strategy. The symposium was initially postponed when the Harper government and the directors of the CIHR got word that actual, honest to goodness, parent autism advocates were being put forward as autism society

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