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Copper Canyon AcademyCOPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.


Excel AcademyEXCEL ACADEMY has a Junior High School, a College Prep High School, and a College program, enabling us to help preteens, teens, and young adults. EXCEL ACADEMY boasts a compelling history of success with students who have had previous school or therapeutic failures. EXCEL ACADEMY offers an intensely effective milieu without the look and feel of traditional programs and places a heavy emphasis on ensuring that all students feel safe and part of "the family" regardless of past environment, behavior, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or history of abuse or trauma.

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Camp Huntington   border= Camp Huntington offers co-ed, residential, summer camps for children and young adults who have special needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disabilities, and cognitive impairment. Camp Huntington's program is designed to maximize a child's potential and develop their strengths and hidden abilities.

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SIGHT Summer Camps for Asperger's or Autism  border= Talisman's SIGHT program allows children with Asperger's and high-functioning autism to enjoy the outdoors while building social skills, increasing self esteem, and helping the participant develop and pursue their own unique interests and goals. Talisman provides parents with unique alternatives to ordinary summer camps that cannot focus on their child's special needs.

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Southeast Journeys   border= Southeast Journeys are semester-length programs, for students ages 13 - 17 with Asperger's Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism, and similar Autism Spectrum disorders. The program at Southeast Journeys focuses on improving social awareness and interaction, independence, and academic self-motivation. On and off campus, students practice independent living skills and group dynamics, and engage in focused social skills groups.

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Asperger's Syndrome and Autism Information  MAAP Services for the Autism and Asperger Syndrome is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information and advice to families of More advanced individuals with Autism, Asperger's syndrome, and Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD).

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Autism Research Institute  The Autism Research Institute (ARI), a non-profit organization, was established in 1967. ARI is primarily devoted to conducting research, and to disseminating the results of research, on the causes of autism and on methods of preventing, diagnosing and treating autism and other severe behavioral disorders of childhood. We provide information based on research to parents and professionals throughout the world.

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Autism Society of America  The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong access and opportunity for all individuals within the autism spectrum, and their families, to be fully participating, included members of their community.

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Autism Spectrum Disorders   Learn what autism is exactly, what the signs and symptoms are, and the types of treatment available and how to find services.

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Autism: The Hidden Epidemic?  "Autism: The Hidden Epidemic?" is a compilation of NBC News and MSNBC special reports on the subject of America's fastest growing serious developmental disability.

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Center for the Study of Autism  The Center for the Study of Autism (CSA) is located in the Salem/Portland, Oregon area. The Center provides information about autism to parents and professionals, and conducts research on the efficacy of various therapeutic interventions. Much of our research is in collaboration with the Autism Research Institute in San Diego, California.

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Cure Autism Now (CAN)  Cure Autism Now (CAN) is an organization of parents, clinicians and leading scientists committed to accelerating the pace of biomedical research in autism through raising money for research projects, education and outreach. The organization's primary focus is to fund essential research through a variety of programs designed to encourage innovative approaches toward identifying the causes, prevention, treatment and a cure for autism and related disorders.

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Facts about Children and Adolescents with Autism  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) National Mental Health Information Center provides information about Autism, also called Autistic Disorder. Autism, which usually appears in early childhood, prevents children and adolescents from interacting normally with other people and affects almost every aspect of their social and psychological development.

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talkAutism  talkAutism's interactive databases allows the autism community access to up-to-date resources and perspectives, while it builds a database for future inquiries. talkAutism also develops complementing new communication technologies to connect and assist the autism community.

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