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Research-Support-Optimal Health and Well Being

  • To raise awareness of potential environmental triggers for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and to counter the claims that autism is a purely inherited (genetic) condition.
  • To promote research into potential environmental causes and develop screening methods to recognise at risk individuals during early development.
  • To encourage and promote targeting of research funding into the study of potential environmental factors including toxic elements, organic xenobiotic chemicals and pathogenic organisms which act to perturb immune function.
  • To ensure that every child diagnosed with autism, or a related condition, is screened for a comprehensive range of biological, biochemical, immunological and psychological abnormalities such that an individual treatment programme can be developed and funded by government.
  • To raise awareness of and to encourage clinical trials on novel treatments to alleviate the symptoms of and, improve the quality of life for individuals with autism.
 
29A Stafford Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7BJ, Scotland
Telephone: 0131 558 7444
Fax: 0131 476 3170
e-mail: admin@autismtrust.org.uk

(Registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee. Incorporated in Scotland. No. 236901. Scottish Charity SC 033523)