I was reading something quite unrelated to autism when I stumbled upon this service that will convert different document formats and store them online for sharing. As is usually the case I thought I would perform a quick search for autism related information and came across a few hits. One that might be of interest can be found here and is summarized by the author as follows:

My personal experience in living and working with a child with autism (my daughter) from diagnosis through adolescence up to adulthood. The book presents and delves into all aspects of the syndrome, focusing on the strategies and methodologies I found helpful in coping with and addressing the language, learning and behavioral challenges that children with autism present to parents and teachers. I also discuss at length what is going on neurologically in the autistic brain…

This has lead me to want to use this post, or this blog atleast, to keep track of some of these available online resources. As I mention on our homepage many relevant and useful resources are available online but they can be found in very scattered places. This is one thing that I have aimed to do with our website is to consolidate information into one location, or atleast try to concentrate links to information in one place. This is, I’ll admit, a very self serving pursuit, but I hope to be able to have others benefit from my online exploration by making my findings available to the larger population. It is not my intent to actively filter the content of what I find, though this will likely be a natural phenomenon anyway as I will link to and post about things that I am researching or stumble upon by accident (much like the source of this post).

I recently had the pleasure of exchanging some thoughts on the autism-vaccine issue with the author of a blog I like to read and he mentioned that he did not necessarily agree with some of the content in our document storage. This made me think more critically about what we want to achieve with that portion of our web presence. As we state in the caveat on our mainpage, our goal is to help consolidate information and have it in one location. I do not presume to know if everything that is there is fact, I do think that it is information (I hope that there is no dysinformation – though some may view it as such and that is there right) and information is very valuable. Reading and exploring broadly within any topic is the key to understanding and forming a well rounded opinion. That is my personal goal and therefore we provide these documents so that others can do likewise and perhaps fuel some healthy discourse where opinions vary, as they undoubtedly will.
So, now I can go on about my exploration of the internet and adding things that I find interesting and hopefully useful as we continue to learn about autism and its many facets. I think an important key to finding success in anything is to be well informed and keeping an open-, and critical, mind. I hope that is what we are doing.

NB: In keeping with my goal I have included a copy of Funny wiring in our repository should the link go stale or no longer be available.

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