Useful Links

Here you will find a TASH-supported website that emerged out of advocacy meetings concerning individuals with autism who use facilitated communication. The site features advocacy and access information as well as personal stories of people who use alternative methods for communication.

The Peak Center of Colorado Springs is designed to ensure that individuals with disabilities lead rich, active lives and participate as full members of their schools and communities. PEAK provides training, information, and technical assistance, including best practices, to families and the professionals working with them.

DEAL Communication Centre provides services to people who are unable to talk, or to talk clearly, as a result of conditions such as cerebral palsy, strokes, acquired brain damage, autism, Down syndrome, or intellectual impairment - anyone whose speech is not clear enough, fluent enough or reliable enough to allow them to get across everything they want to say. The DEAL Centre is run by Rosemary Crossley in Australia and offers expertise and equipment, often at no cost, to individuals.

Established in the School of Education at Syracuse University in 1992, the Facilitated Communication Institute conducts research, public education, training and scholarly seminars. It was created as a way of bringing together the research community, people with disabilities, their families, and practicing professionals to examine, learn about, and share information on facilitated communication.

Norman Kunc & Emma Van der Klift offer extensive advocacy information and workshops in advocacy for individuals with disabilities. Their website includes a schedule of Professional Development on Disability and Non-Coercive Practices.

The Institute on Disability/UCED (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire was established in 1987 to provide a coherent university-based focus for the improvement of knowledge, policies, and practices related to the lives of persons with disabilities and their families.

The mission of this family-based website is to encourage new ways of thinking about disability and to help create a society in which all people are valued and included.

Dr. Kluth is an independent education consultant and independent scholar who is dedicated to promoting inclusive schooling and exploring positive ways of supporting students with autism and other disabilities. Her website offers ideas, resources and her schedule of workshops and conferences.  In this web space you will find articles, web links, and resources that can be used to inspire positive change in schools and communities.

This autism advocacy organization is dedicated to "Social Justice for All Citizens with Autism" through a shared vision and a commitment to positive approaches. Our organization was founded in 1990 to protect and advance the human rights and civil rights of all persons with autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and related differences of communication and behavior. In the face of social policies of devaluation, which are expressed in the practices of segregation, medicalization, and aversive conditioning, we assert that all individuals are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.