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Welcome to our new website!

You will notice some changes to our site that will  allow you to join our growing community of concerned friends and families, enhance your ability to access important information about all topics relating to the autism spectrum, and join us in Team Building for the second annual Hope Walk to be held Sunday, September 28th.
 
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CBS owes an apology. People with autism are not "retards."

Last week on an episode of the CBS program "Big Brother" cast member Adam Jasinski referred to people with autism as "retards." This dehumanizing language is unacceptable. When Don Imus used racially callous language on his program CBS executives Leslie Moonves and Sumner Redstone issued an apology, fired Imus and cancelled his show. We call up Mr. Moonves and Mr. Redstone to issue an apology to people with autism and other developmental disabilities, fire Adam Jasinski, and cancel Big Brother.



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Lowe's Pulls Ads from Big Brother in Response to "Retards" Comments

An outpouring of calls and emails from parents, families and friends of people with autism in response to a broadcast last week that referred to people with autism as "retards" has persuaded the Lowe's Companies to stop advertising with the CBS program Big Brother.



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Autism United Welcomes Nassau County Hearing on Autism and Vaccines

David Mejias, Chair of the Nassau County Health Committee will host a public hearing and press conference today along with New York State Assemblymember Harvey Weisenberg on the the connections between vaccines and autism. This will be the first hearing by a local government in the US directly considering this issue.

A press conference will be held Monday April 28, 2008 at noon prior hearing to follow at 1:30 pm at 1550 Franklin Avenue in Garden City, New York in the chambers of the Nassau County Legislature. The public is invited to attend and testify.


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