Autism Cymru (original) (raw)
Autism Cymru was "Wales' national charity for autism" with offices in Cardiff, Wrexham, and Aberystwyth. The charity was established in May 2001 through an initial 3yrs grant provided by The Shirley Foundation. The founder chair of the Trustees was Dame Stephanie Shirley of the Shirley Foundation. Autism Cymru organised and delivered the first of four bi-annual international autism conferences in 2006 in Cardiff City Hall attracting 800 delegates over 2.5days. Speakers coming to Cardiff included Temple Grandin, Gary Mesibov, Tony Atwood, Ros Blackburn, Chris Gilberg. .
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| dbo:abstract | Autism Cymru was "Wales' national charity for autism" with offices in Cardiff, Wrexham, and Aberystwyth. The charity was established in May 2001 through an initial 3yrs grant provided by The Shirley Foundation. The founder chair of the Trustees was Dame Stephanie Shirley of the Shirley Foundation. Autism Cymru was a unique strategic level autism charity in that its strategic objectives were to influence government policy for autism in Wales, to bring about coherence to research in autism in Wales, to create far wider and knowledge of autism through creating training and related awareness raising initiatives. Having achieved all its strategic objectives the charity formally ceased operation in 2013/14. In 2002/3 Autism Cymru made out the case to the Welsh Assembly Government that they should establish a world first national strategy for autism. The charity’s CEO, Hugh Morgan, was appointed to Chair the development of the Welsh Assembly Government’s ASD Strategic Action Plan for Wales between 2003-2008. From 2008-11 Autism Cymru agreed to second their CEO to the Welsh Assembly Government to head up in the foundation phase of the ASD Strategic Action Plan for Wales and from 2011-12 Hugh Morgan OBE was seconded to be the Expert advisor for Autism to the Welsh Assembly Government. Autism Cymru organised and delivered the first of four bi-annual international autism conferences in 2006 in Cardiff City Hall attracting 800 delegates over 2.5days. Speakers coming to Cardiff included Temple Grandin, Gary Mesibov, Tony Atwood, Ros Blackburn, Chris Gilberg. In the summer of 2006 Autism Cymru was made Channel S4C’s ‘charity of the year’ featuring several televised programmes on autism and events including a sponsored walk for autism from Abertawe to Aberystwyth. After holding 3 research workshops involving autism researchers from throughout Wales in 2006/7 Autism Cymru initiated a fundraising partnership with Autistica to generate sufficient funds to establish a Wales Autism Research Centre and the UK’s first professorial chair in autism. In 2010 the Wales Autism Research Centre was launched in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University with the appointment as Director of Professor Sue Leekam, who became the first professorial chair in autism in the U.K. At the personal invitation of the European Commission’s Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Autism Cymru organised an inaugural awareness raising day on autism within the European Parliament, Brussels, in 2011, involving NGO’s with an interest in autism from throughout the European Union. . (en) |
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| dbp:areaServed | Within and outside Wales (en) |
| dbp:dissolved | 0001-11-22 (xsd:gMonthDay) |
| dbp:focus | Autism (en) |
| dbp:foundedDate | 2001 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:homepage | Former domain no longer operational (en) |
| dbp:keyPeople | Lord Dafydd Wigley, Professor Bill Fraser CBE, Dame Stephanie Shirley, Maggie Bowen Deputy CEO, Hugh Morgan OBE Chief Executive (en) |
| dbp:location | Wales (en) |
| dbp:method | Practitioner led (en) |
| dbp:mission | Improving lives of autistic people and their families living in Wales and working with others to achieve major national and international improvements (en) |
| dbp:name | Autism Cymru (en) |
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| dbp:services | Strategic Influence of Governments; Collaborative practice, Education and training, Research and awareness raising. (en) |
| dbp:type | Non profit (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Autism Cymru was "Wales' national charity for autism" with offices in Cardiff, Wrexham, and Aberystwyth. The charity was established in May 2001 through an initial 3yrs grant provided by The Shirley Foundation. The founder chair of the Trustees was Dame Stephanie Shirley of the Shirley Foundation. Autism Cymru organised and delivered the first of four bi-annual international autism conferences in 2006 in Cardiff City Hall attracting 800 delegates over 2.5days. Speakers coming to Cardiff included Temple Grandin, Gary Mesibov, Tony Atwood, Ros Blackburn, Chris Gilberg. . (en) |
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