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Archive for the ‘TACA’ Category

Perusing the IRS form 990′s for some autism organizations

Friday, March 18th, 2011

How big are more outspoken autism organizations? How much do they support research? How much do they pay their executives? This became a big question about a year ago when it became public how much Autism Speaks pays their top people. Since the 2009 form 990 (IRS forms from non-profit organizations) are now public, I [...]

Just how big is the National Autism Association anyway?

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) is meeting tomorrow. On the agenda is “Welcome and Introductions of IACC Members”. It is no secret that many groups have wanted a seat at the IACC table. Autism Speaks was previously represented by Alison Singer, but she left Autism Speaks to form her own organization, the Autism Science [...]

Did TACA change the rules to deny a blogger attendance at a conference?

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Two years ago, AutismNewsBeat was Expelled! from an autism “conference” (AutismOne). Today, he was denied admission to the TACA Real Help Now Conference in Wisconsin. TACA’s stated policy on the website is: TACA strives to ensure that the focus of our conference is education and support, and to provide a safe, supportive environment for our [...]

With the facts against them Dr. Wakefield’s supporters appeal to emotion

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I should stop being shocked and amazed at how little groups like the Age of Autism blog think of their readership. Sorry to put it so bluntly, but it is pretty clear that they expect us all to just read what they have to say and never go to the original sources and think for [...]

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