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What they do :
• listen to the needs and concerns of New Brunswick children and youth
• Make sure your views are heard in the appropriate forums
• Investigate complaints about how situation were handled by government agencies
• Assure you have proper access to the appropriate services.
• Continually monitor laws and policies
• Report on the availability, effectiveness, responsiveness, and relevance of child and youth
services in your community.
• Act as the advocate for the rights and interests of children and youth in general.
 What they do not do...
• Act as an advocate for the rights and interests of parents or adults.
• Act as legal counsel in any fashion.

Child & Youth Advocate (Disponible en Français)

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This app is for students who are learning to comment in Phase VI of PECS. iHear PECS: Animals
includes two different sound tracks for 12 familiar animals, a PECS Activity Board, 3 Pics for PECS
Sentence Starter images and 12 Pics for PECS animal images. Parents can customize the Activity
Board with 1 to 3 Sentence Starters and 1 to 12 animal images to teach responsive and spontaneous
commenting and requesting. The student drags and drops Pics for PECS icons to the Sentence
Strip to comment on or request the animal sound and then taps each picture to “speak” the
sentence. If the student requests an animal sound, the animal sound plays as a reward.

iHear PECS®: Animals™

Association for Science in Autism Treatment promotes safe, effective, science-based treatments
for people with autism by disseminating sound information, advocating for the use of scientific
methods to guide treatment and combating inaccurate and false information about autism and its
treatment. The website also contains a specific page for parents about treatments that really work,
treatments that need more research, and treatments that do not work. Additionally, the interviews
with practitioners in the field, which are on the website, would be useful to learn more about
autism and treatment options.

Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT Online)

The UK’s leading organization for autistic people and their families. Although, the website mainly
gives services for UK, there is a lot of useful information as well as many links about autism.

National Autistic Society

Melissa Arseneau specializes in cognitive-behavioural therapy, parenting consultation and
psycho-educational/diagnostic assessments of children and adolescents on the autism spectrum.

Melissa Arseneau, Psychologist (private practice) (Disponible en Français)

This is an online course that is offered through the coursera.org platform, and taught by the
University of California. The online lectures are free of charge, unless one wants to hold a
certificate. This course helps in understanding the characteristics of autism spectrum disorder
and their implications for behaviour, learning, and the ability to process information.

Autism Spectrum Disorder Online Course

A selection of French books on the personal and family struggles of autistic people and those around them. Fight for the diagnosis, for schooling, for the right to exist despite the difference, and to be accepted in society.