About Us
This website is a non-profit project to help increase Autism Awareness in Pakistan, where most doctors and educators do not know about Autism, however parent-led efforts have started making progress. An Autism training centre for mother and special educators has started in Gulshan-e-iqbal at karachi, by AFA India trained special educator Mrs Roohi Maroof and her husband Dr Maroof. This Centre for Autism has trained its first batch of special educators in June 2009 and continue to do good work, training doctors at the National Institute for Child Health (NICH) at Karachi. To continue these efforts we regularly hold seminars, workshops and lectures by visiting experts for public, parents and special educators as well as doctors of all fields.
We are massing together the media and a large number of parents so that we can help other regional countries in our regional and global cause for Autism Awareness, Rights, Legislation, Training and facilities. The first South Asian conference for Autism was held in Lahore, Pakistan in 2005, the second South Asian Autism Conference was held in Delhi, India in January 2008 and the third South Asian Autism Conference was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in January 2009. The fourth South Asian conference for Autism may be held in January 2010 in Sri Lanka or Pakistan.
This website is run by the parents, doctors, special educators and social workers who meet each month under the banner of the Pakistan Autism Meetup Group. in Autism Resource Centres across Pakistan.
