Autism Speaks is one of a number of non-profit charities dedicated to raising money to fund research into autism and other autism spectrum disorders (also known as pervasive developmental disorders), including Asperger's syndrome, to find its causes, isolate potential treatments and cures, and work out methods to prevent it.
The Atlanta chapter has contributed much to the autism community and to the Marcus Autism Center, which made a huge impact on my son's progress.
Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Bob Wright and his wife. Please note that the autistic community consider Autism Speaks to be a hate group, they do a lot of harm to the autistic community and autistic people.
Autism Walk is promoted by Autism Speaks to increase their profits, Autism Speaks is considered to be a hate group by Autistic people - if you care about Autistic people you don't give a single penny to that organisation. If you want to walk for Autism start your own walk, make it free and ask for donations, and support an Autism charity that helps Autistic people.
Autism Speaks, founded in 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, is the world's largest Autism advocacy organization. Autism Speaks uses a light blue color scheme for most of the organizations media. The blue color scheme is also used for Autism Speaks 'Light It Up Blue' Campaign held on April 2nd of every year with cities around the world changing their lights to a blue color in honor of World Autism Awareness Day. You can find more about Autism Speaks and Light It Up Blue in the related links.
The logoc for Autism Speaks is a blue puzzle piece. It's important to point out that many people find this logo to be offensive as it suggests that autistic people are a puzzle or are missing something, also Autism Speaks is considered a hate group by Autistic people because they promote harmful propoganda against autistic people that increases prejudice. Please if you wish to support autistic causes opt for an orgnisation other than Autism Speaks.
Information about autism in children can be found on the NHS Choices website, as well as YoungMinds. There is further information on Autism Speaks and from the website of the Autism Society.
Autism awareness means bringing awareness about autism and Autistic people. Autism awareness is unfortunately associated with Autism Speaks who actually act against Autistic people by spreading misinformation as a means of increasing their profits.
Autism Awareness is associated with the hate group Autism Speaks - they seek to increase awareness by implying that autism is a tragedy in order to increase their profits. They use blue because it is their companies brand colour, it reminds people of their organisation so they are more likely to donate to them rather than to autism organisation that support autistic people.
He wears the Autism Awareness pin because he has a step-son with Autism. We need a cure for Autism, but we also need compassion and understanding for the children and families who struggle every day.
Autism only affects the person with Autism - injustice can effect the family as a whole if they cannot get easy access to Autism services, but Autism doesn't affect relationships of the Autistic persons parents. This is a classic tactic of Autism Speaks, they tell people that Autism ruins families and relationships in order to frame Autism as something terrible so that people give them more money - please don't listen to anti-Autism rhetoric from Autism Speaks.
Autism Speaks doesn't have patients because it is a charity, not a hospital or care home.Note: Autism Speaks is largely regarded as a hate group by Autistic people and their allies due to the harm they cause to Autistic people via propaganda they use to increase profits, due to the abusive treatment practices they support, also they support eugenics and genocide through supporting a 'cure'.
You can wear whatever you want whenever you want. It's worth pointing out that going blue for autism is a campaign of Autism Speaks, which is considered a hate group by the autism community as they do a lot of harm to autistics.
There are many helpful sites on-line that have great information about the symptoms of Autism as well as information on how to cope with the condition. For great information you can check out the Autism Speaks page.