Autism Hope Alliance

While autism itself can feel like an isolating experience, there are many resources for families facing the diagnoisis, ranging from support organizations, treatment centers and educational institutions. The Autism Hope Alliance is dedicated to providing information and resources to improve the outcome of children, adolescents, and adults affected by autism.

We maintain a user community forum where questions can be raised and new found information and success stories are shared on Yahoo Groups. Please email info@AutismHopeAlliance.org with "Request to Join AHA Yahoo Group" in the subject field so that our moderator can add you to this community forum. We also suggest you opt-in to our e-Mail list (which would never be shared with any other organization) to receive our periodic updates on lectures, events and other valuable information we judge to be of value and use for autism families.

Autism Hope Alliance also offers the following list of websites we believe are valuable for resource:

Advanced Brain Technologies: Develops innovative brain enhancement programs including The Listening Program®, a complementary method of home delivered music listening therapy, that supports learning, communication, and social engagement.

American Medical Autism Board: AMAB offers the first of its kind board certification program for medical doctors specializing in biomedical treatment of autism and related disorders. These disorders are known collectively as the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Thus, doctors who are certified by the American Medical Autism Board are specialize in biomedical treatment of ASD, and met the Board’s high levels of criteria of training and experience.
Audio Hope: Audio Hope utilizes Auditory Integration Training (AIT), which is a form of intensive non-invasive treatment for those who suffer from hearing sensitivity and distortions in hearing. AIT provides stimulation to the hearing mechanism, which produces more normal hearing following treatment. Hearing anomalies can affect many aspects of normal everyday life, especially behavior, sensitivity to noises, social interaction, speech and language development and learning.
Autism Collaboration: Collaboration offers the most valuable autism answer search facility available: The A+ Recovery Search Engine. The A+ Recovery Search Engine cuts through the confusion, providing the information, resources, and options you need to make the best decisions and most informed choices. Combining over 75 years of successfully providing answers that make a difference, we take your search for recovery as seriously as you do.
Autism One: An educational and advocacy non-profit organization started by a group of parents of children with autism, serving more than 100,000 families each year.
Autism Research Institute: For more than 40 years, ARI has devoted its work to conducting autism research and disseminating the results of their research to parents and professionals around the world.
Autism Society of America: Provides information, education, supporting research, programs, and services for the autism community. More than 50,000 members and supporters are connected through a working network of nearly 200 chapters nationwide.
Autism Treatment Center of America - Son-Rise Program®: Innovative training programs for parents and professionals caring for children challenged by Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and other developmental difficulties. AHA scholarship recipients are eligible for this program.
Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD): One of the world's largest and most experienced organizations effectively treating children with autism and related disorders. Following ABA treatment, CARD develops individualized plans.
The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation: Provide grants to programs that enrich the lives of adolescents and adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Also provides community outreach and education regarding the life-span issues associated with ASD.
Defeat Autism Now: Defeat Autism Now!® (DAN!) is a bold project title, and the doctors and researchers involved have an equally bold goal: to find, test, and promote safe and effective treatments for a disorder that many medical professionals still consider untreatable. The conferences are distinguished by its commitment to invite only the most credible, accredited, and forward-thinking researchers and clinicians as speakers. Information on a medical treatment is presented at our conferences only after a special preview committee has deemed it both safe and effective.
Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism: Promotes awareness and supports families affected by autism spectrum disorders through direct services, family support grants, education, advocacy and recreational opportunities, with the purpose of improving the quality of life for individuals with autism and their families.
EnzymeStuff: This independent site is for education and information about digestive enzymes. There is a large need to provide practical and general information on enzyme therapy for a wide range of uses.
Gluten Free Casein Free (GFCF) Diet: The Gluten Free Casein Free (GFCF) Diet is one of the very first recommendations for children diagnosed with autism. This is because many of the children lack the [dpp4] enzyme that allows them to break down gluten (proteins in wheat) and casein (proteins in dairy). This can cause poor attention, odd behavior, a deficit in socialization skills and poor speech. Consequently, when gluten- and casein-based foods are removed improved behavior, better attention, at times improved speech and an increase in socialization skills can follow.
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey's Autism Organization - Generation Rescue: An international movement of scientists, physicians and parent-volunteers researching the causes and treatments for autism, helping more than 20,000 children begin biomedical treatment.
Judevine Center for Autism: A pioneer in treatment and training of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families. Programs are rooted in principles of applied behavior analysis within a social exchange framework.
National Autism Association: The mission of the National Autism Association is to educate and empower families affected by autism and other neurological disorders, while advocating on behalf of those who cannot fight for their own rights.
Nourishing Hope: Nourishing Hope is an autism nutrition practice dedicated to the health and healing of children with autism through diet and nutrition intervention. We partner with parents and caregivers to help them successfully apply autism diets, nutrition fundamentals, enzymes and supplements as a complement to physician recommended treatments.
Special Eats: Special Eats to assist others on the healthy path toward embracing gluten and dairy free living. The site is designed to help educate and enable people to find delicious recipes.
The Body Ecology Diet: The Body Ecology Diet shows you how to restore and maintain the important "inner ecology" your body needs to function properly and to eliminate or control the symptoms that rob you of the joy of living. The cornerstone to the BED is fermentation which allows food’s natural bacterial reproduce so it becomes soft, delicious, and easier to digest.
The HANDLE: The HANDLE (Holistic Approach to NeuroDevelopment & Learning Efficiency) Institute provides effective non-drug evaluation and treatment for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. Just as no two fingerprints are alike, so also no two people have the same arrangement of pathways that carry messages to, within, and from their brains. HANDLE utilizes a holistic perspective, assessing numerous interdependent body-mind influences within each individual as they respond to a vast array of elements within their environment which has been shown to improve the bilateral and crossing the midline issues.
The New England Center for Children: A private, nonprofit organization serving children with autism and other related disabilities, providing a full range of educational, residential and treatment programs designed to help children with autism.
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet: Research shows that fungi and bacteria in the GI tract cause gastrointestinal problems and neurological problems such as autism. Studies also indicate that starches and certain sugars feed these fungi and bacteria. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) eliminates the foods that feed these microorganisms, starving the pathogens so that they leave the body. The child is no longer a hostage to billions of pathogenic invaders that poison the gut and brain.
US Autism and Asperger Association (USAAA): USAAA provides education, research, support, and solutions through conferences, newsletters, and resources. Its mission is to enhance the quality of life of individuals and their families touched by autism spectrum disorders.

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