Results show Australasian researchers are delivering results for the autistic community with our research output being much greater than would be expected. In a recent bibliographic analysis, it was found that two Australiasian sites, Australia and Japan, provide much more research related to autism than would be expected on the basis of their population size. Australia was 4th in world and Japan was 8th for Autism Research. For more details, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
ASfAR is pleased and proud to announce that our ASfAR Vice-President Prof. Cheryl Dissanayake has been elected Vice-President of the International COmmittee for Autism Research (INSAR) in May 2019 at the INSAR annual meeting in Montreal, Canada! Congratulations to Cheryl and we look forward to building meaningful links with INSAR and promoting good autism research from the Asia Pacific internationally!
ASfAR dinner held at Sesame on Thursday the 2nd of May in Montreal at the INSAR meeting
From time to time, ASfAR is approached by generous and passionate individuals who believe in the importance and value of research to improve the lives of autistic people and who ask us what they can do to support ASfAR related research. Some have mentioned they are planning fundraisers or a giving pool for their celebration and would like to donate the amount they make to ASfAR.
We are grateful for their passion, commitment and generosity and have set up a PayPal account where such donations can be anonymously made.
Between December 2018 and March 2019, ASfAR received a number of such anonymous donations. We would like to thank the donors for their contributions!
We would also like to inform them and our ASfAR membership that their donations will be dedicated to furthering research into autism by the award of two grants to worthy student researchers to support their research.