Aspies For Freedom

(the registration form is here: http://ani.autistics.org/aut07regform.html)

Autism Network International presents
AUTREAT 2007

Autreat is a retreat-style conference run by autistic people, for autistic people and our friends and families. It is an opportunity for autistic people and those with related developmental differences, our friends and supporters to come together, discover and explore autistic connections, and develop advocacy skills, all in an autistic-friendly environment. Autreat focuses on positive living with autism, NOT on causes, cures, or ways to make us more normal. We have an exciting lineup of presentations on a variety of subjects of interest to the Autistic community, including emotions, parenting, testing, self-advocacy skills, neurodiversity, autistic people in Japan, and more. Autreat has been approved to offer Continuing Education Units through the Center on Human Policy at Syracuse University.

Autreat 2007 will take place on Monday-Friday, June 25-29, 2007 at a small college campus in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. The campus has plenty of open space for walking, recreation, and enjoying the outdoors. Lodging is in a residence hall with two to four people per room. Registration includes a supervised activity program for children and teens under 18. For fee information, registration form, a list of workshops, and further autreat information, check out ANI's website at: http://www.ani.ac.

Instead of making a new thread each time you have something to say, why not just make posts into the threads you already have?  That would make your announcements a lot easier to read.

From Jim Sinclair, about how to make a tax-deductible contribution to Autreat:

Although ANI is not (yet) an incorporated tax-exempt organization, we
are fortunate to have sponsorship through Temple University, which
*is* tax-exempt. People can make contributions to Temple University,
earmarked for Autreat, and as we are a sponsored program, it's all
legal and the donors can deduct their contributions on their U.S.
income tax returns. But this needs to be properly identified as a
donation for Autreat, and sent to the right person, so it can be
properly passed along to us.

Complete information about how to make a tax-deductible donation and
make sure it gets credited properly can be found at
http://ani.autistics.org/underwriting.html.

Of course if you want to make a donation to help Autreat, and you
don't need a U.S. tax deduction, you can also send donations directly
to ANI (PO Box 35448, Syracuse, NY 13235).

All donations earmarked for Autreat will be used for scholarships to
enable low-income people to attend Autreat, and for overall
enhancements to the Autreat event.

J8

Why Japan? [/b]