Every day AACTION receives emails from parents across the world seeking accurate autism information - their goal is simply to provide a better life for their children. By collaborating with teachers, volunteers, and families across the world, AACTION has the power to help accomplish their goal and make the world a better place for individuals with autism.

We are asking for your help as we look to grow in 2012! Click on the program below that you would like to sponsor - on behalf of the autism community you are impacting, we appreciate your support!

Donate $25

To help provide new curriculum to a school in an under-served area - local & abroad

"The activities have been really engaging and the students are retaining a lot of information, which is great!" - Gavin, CPS teacher

Donate $50

To provide online training for a family, teacher, or volunteer

*Program in development - help us get our online training website off the ground so that we can reach families and teachers around the world!

Donate $100

To sponsor a teacher to attend AACTION's hands-on training

"This training has been an amazing experience. AACTION has taken a great step by conducting workshops in India." - Anumeha, mother & teacher

Donate $350

To sponsor a semester of Service Learning for a local classroom of high school students with autism

Thank you to all those that participated in our volunteer event today for our fall Service Learning Projects! Volunteers helped create educational materials for two Chicago-land high school autism classrooms. These two classrooms will be learning about the culture, history, and geography of Nepal and Nigeria. They will also have the opportunity to follow visual supports in order to enjoy the music of each country, cook local recipes, and make t-shirts with the countries' flag. In addition, the students in the classrooms will volunteer their time to create best practice educational materials to send to autism organizations in each country. The students at the organizations in Nepal and Nigeria will be taking photos and videos of life in their countries' to send to our Chicago-land classrooms.

The cost for each Service Learning Project is $350. This is made possible by our amazing volunteers - without them the cost would be several thousand dollars!

View photos from the event here!

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Please check back throughout the school year to get updates on AACTION's Service Learning Projects!

Check out an interview with AACTION on NPR! We are discussing the landscape of autism in India - and the steps we have taken to provide support!

Click here to listen!

Thank you to the staff at NPR for bringing awareness to such an important issue.

Thank you to all those who came out and supported AACTION at Subterranean - you truly are making a difference for individuals with autism across the globe! Check out pictures on our Facebook page here:

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AACTION has begun it's pilot Service Learning Project. A classroom here in Chicago (home classroom) is going to develop friendships and learning materials for a school for individuals with autism in Guyana (Guyana Greenheart Autistic Society). The home classroom will also teach a unit to their students with autism about Guyana. The materials were created and donated by committed and generous autism teachers around the Chicago area.

In addition, the home classroom will be creating structured educational materials and sending them to their friends in Guyana. Check back to see the progress of this project, and let us know if you are interested in getting involved!

Here is Kim Goldsmith, the home classroom teacher, receiving and talking about the Guyana materials to teach in her classroom.

Merry Barua is the Director of Action For Autism in India and a dear friend to AACTION Autism. She is an angel for people with autism in India and Southeast Asia - she works tirelessly to provide training and support. We can not thank her enough for the wonderful partnership and for all the work she does!

Watch her here talking about the impact of AACTION training!

Here is the followup article in the News Gazette - we are thankful to see positive stories in the news media!

Click here to read the article.