National Autistic Society: Cambridge Branch

Dear Cambridge NAS,

We are once again running professional training courses

on diagnostic instruments, and are seeking volunteers to assist with our

course in September. We seek an able adult or adolescent with a diagnosis of

AS, HFA or ASD to come in on Tuesday September 14th 2010 between 1.30 and

2.30pm to do a friendly interview in front of 12 professionals who are

learning how to do interview assessments for ASD. 6 people will take turns to

do one or two activities with the volunteer. There are no 'tests' and it

We would like to speak with people with autism or an autism spectrum condition, like Asperger’s syndrome, who have experienced a psychotic illness. This means people who have seen things that weren’t really there, heard voices in their head, or had strange beliefs about the world and had a doctor or psychiatrist tell them they had psychotic illness. It may be called bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, or something different.

We are looking for children aged 4 – 10 years old and male adults aged 18- 50 years old who have a diagnosis on the autism spectrum for a new home-based study, Is there a difference between volatile organic chemicals in the urine of children with and without autism/A

We are looking for volunteers to take part in a pilot study that is taking place at the Autism Research Centre. The study is called "Paying Attention to the Visual System: A Study of Motion Perception in ASC." We are studying motion perception to learn about attentional mechanisms that implicitly modulate visual perception in autism.

We are currently looking for individuals, male or female, over 18 years of age, with a diagnosis of autism or Asperger syndrome.