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Useful services and external resources, for your care and career.
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Garry Burge - Asperger Syndrome and Autism Advocacy
Offering personal experience, through trial and error, to help raise awareness.
Garry Burge was born in Brisbane, Australia in August 1972 and was diagnosed as having Asperger Syndrome in July 1998. Being diagnosed has helped him to understand who he is as a person and explained why he was different from other people and the world around him.
His diagnosis helped to answer some of the following questions:
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Why it was difficult for him to make friends
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His constant obsessions in trains, pocket watches, orchids and history
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The difficulty in not being able to fit into and adjust to the school environment
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Why he was bullied and teased within secondary school
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Experience of having depression and social isolation earlier in his life
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Not having a lighter side
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Seeing things and taking comments from other people very literally
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Unemployment issues and not being able to find employment
Visit Garry Burge's website to find out more and learn from his experiences. This includes autism and employment, Asperger Syndrome advocacy, links and support.
[AUSTRALIA-BASED; INSIGHTS RELEVANT WORLDWIDE]
Look Hear Australia
Look Hear Australia focuses on bringing the top resources and resource pages, on children with complex and additional needs, together under one site. Our motto is "it's not hard to make it easy" and we strive to make the search for quality information, programs, equipment and resources easy.
[AUSTRALIA-BASED RESOURCE; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]
National Autistic Society (UK)
The leading UK charity for autistic people (including those with Asperger syndrome) and their families. Providing information, support and pioneering services, and campaign for a better world for autistic people.
[UK-BASED; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]
Sex Ed for Self-Advocates | Organization for Autism Research
A sexuality and sex education resource, written specifically for autistic people age 15 and up. Autistic people sometimes don't have the chance to learn about sexuality and sex in ways that work for them, so OAR created this guide as a starting point to change that.
In each of the nine sections of the guide, self-advocates will be able to read articles and watch brief videos, before testing their knowledge about a given topic and practicing new skills.
There's a lot to learn about these topics - more than we could fit in just this guide. You can use this information as a starting point for learning more about relationships and sexuality, keeping in mind that learning about sexuality and relationships is a lifelong process.
[US-BASED RESOURCE; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]
Special Supplies
Special Supplies was founded with a goal to address the difficulty parents and educators encounter when attempting to find reliable, safe and effective tools for children with special needs. We discovered that, by doing our due diligence to ensure that our products were effective and safe, we were taking a load off the shoulders of those most invested in the well-being of these children.
All of our products are selected by a team of parents and experienced therapists, which helps us ensure we provide the very best in Oral Motor, Fine Motor, Gross Motor, Daily Living, School and Sensory products. Our team is dedicated to providing customers with the best selection of products for children and adults with special needs. Our passion is not only to raise awareness about the issues facing those with autistic and sensory integration needs, but to offer a therapeutic solution at an affordable price.
[US-WIDE SERVICE]