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Cans for Cornerstone . Will Winders Matt Berger. What is Autism?. Autism is a mental condition in which people have significant social and communication difficulties. There are 3 types of ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder). Asperger syndrome Autistic Disorder
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Cans for Cornerstone Will Winders Matt Berger
What is Autism? • Autism is a mental condition in which people have significant social and communication difficulties. • There are 3 types of ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder). • Asperger syndrome • Autistic Disorder • Pervasive Development Disorder
Background: Autism • One in every one hundred and ten people have Autism. • More children this year will be diagnosed with Autism then Cancer, Diabetes, and AIDS combined. • Sixty seven children are diagnosed with autism daily.
Background: Autism (continued) • Autism has been growing at an alarming rate and Autistic children are beginning to age out of the school system at age 21. • This means that a lot of Autistic people will go into adulthood without any help for jobs or living. • Autistic people have several unique abilities such as noticing details and sorting/categorizing
Cans for Cornerstone • The point of Cans for Cornerstone would be to provide a safe worksite environment for Autistic adults • It would focus on the skills that Autistic people have as mentioned before. • We are collecting cans/bottles to raise money for this non for profit organization.
Action Plan • We have already started collecting bottles every chance we have. • We have collected bottles at numerous softball games in Ridgefield. • We went to the Memorial Day Parade to collect bottles there as well. • We plan to continue this throughout the summer until we reach our goal of $300.
“The private funding for Leukemia is approximately $310 million per year. The private funding for Muscular Dystrophy is approximately $175 million per year. The private funding for Pediatric AIDS is approximately $394 million annually. The private funding for Juvenile Diabetes is approximately $130 million annually. Autism only gets approximately $15 million of private funding for research every year.” (Dera 1)
Work Cited • http://www.caninemagic.org/ • http://www.sodahead.com/fun/why-we-should-euthanize-autistic-children-do-you-agree/question-189364/?link=ibaf&imgurl=http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000189364/polls_sad_child_3630_229014_poll_xlarge.jpeg&q=sad%2Bautistic%2Bchildren • http://www.care2.com/news/member/996845249/1148912 • http://www.dps.missouri.edu/Autism/Adult%20Autism%20&%20Employment.pdf • http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/212541/autism_staggering_statistics.html • http://www.autismspeaks.org/whatisit/index.php • http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/212541/autism_staggering_statistics.html