PH Joins 6th World Autism Awareness Day Celebration

World Autism Awareness Day

The country will join the rest of the world in celebrating the 6th World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) on April 2, 2013 with the theme “Make the Rights Real of Persons with Autism”.

The celebration is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly’s Resolution 62/139 promulgated in December 18, 2007 declaring April 2, 2008 and the succeeding years as the World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD). The resolution recognized autism as a world-wide health concern and also a response to urgent call for autism awareness and for the provision of services for those affected with this condition.

Below are the activities of the WAAD National Working Committee headed by the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA), Autism Hearts Foundation (AHF), SM Programs on Disability Affairs, SM Supermalls, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Philippine Information Agency (PIA), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Social Welfare and development (DSWD), Association of Adults with Autism, Philippines (AAAP) and Autism Society Philippines (ASP).

Schedule of Activities

Date	Activities	Venue
March 23	Sem on the Language of Autism	Bridges Foundation, QC
March 25	Sem-Workshop on Autism	ASP Baguio City chapter
April 2 1-3PM                     4PM            5:30PM            6PM	Stem Cell Therapy and Autism Understanding Autism Opening of Exhibit Light It up Blue	Council for the Welfare of Children QC SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City -same venue as above Globe, SM Mall of Asia
April 5 1PM                        5PM	Lecture on UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Opening of Exhibit of Ms. Desley Lim, PWA	ASP Catanduanes Chapter Robinson’s Galleria, Pasig City
April 6  9AM	Sem on Home Management Program	ASP Catanduanes Chapter
April 9  9AM	Children’s Rights Camp	Norfil Foundation, QC
April 12 9AM              1PM	Lecture on UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Understanding Autism	STAC Laoag City STAC Laoag City
April 20 9AM             1PM	Children’s Rights Camp Family Support Group Meeting	Batino Elem School, QC Autism Society Phils.- National Office, QC
April 26-27	Youth Camp for Autism	Brunei, ASEAN Autism Network
April       27AM                                     PM	Siblings Side of the Story and How to Organize  SibsCamP Sem on Dance Therapy	Bridges Foundation, QC
April 27-29	2nd AAN Autism Congress	Brunei, ASEAN Autism Network

ASP is a proud member of the ASEAN Autism Network, an alliance of autism parent support organizations in Southeast Asia with Secretariat at the Asia Pacific Development Center on Disability in Bangkok, Thailand.

Together we can “Make the Rights REAL of Persons with Autism”

For details please call 7-903-5496.

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