Wikipedia:Noticeboard for autism-related topics

This page is a noticeboard for matters particularly relevant to articles related to autism and autistic spectrum disorders. Please refer to the talk pages of these articles for related discussions.  Noticeboard for autism-related topics.

'''If you are Wikipedian interested in autism-related topics, this noticeboard is for you. See also controversies in autism.''' You may also choose to watch the List of autism-related topics.

Announcements (please update as needed)

 * Portal:Pervasive Developmental Disorders:

Article requests

 * The Age of Autism, April, 2006
 * Amish anomaly (autism rates are surprisingly low among the Amish)
 * Autism Awareness in Singapore
 * Mark Blaxill

Article restoration candidates

 * David Ayoub
 * Jeff Bradstreet
 * Bryan Jepson
 * Thomas Verstraeten

NPOV requests
Topics for notice
 * Andrew Wakefield

Autism-related alerts

 * New Portal:Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Autism-related articles in need of attention

 * Biomedical intervention for autism
 * Controversies in autism
 * Leslie Lemke
 * Donald Meltzer - does this merit a "controversy" tag?
 * James Henry Pullen
 * Jim Sinclair
 * Peter Szatmari
 * Stephen Wiltshire

New autism-related articles

 * Childhood Autism Rating Scale, October, 2007
 * Sallie Bernard, October, 2007
 * Children's Health Act, October, 2007
 * Defeat Autism Now!, October, 2007
 * Refrigerator Mothers (film), February, 2008

New autism-related categories

 * Autism-related organizations, January, 2008
 * Autism activists, April, 2008

Autism stubs

 * Autism diagnostic observational schedule
 * Autism Network International
 * Michelle Dawson
 * Tony DeBlois
 * Defeat Autism Now!
 * Norm Ledgin
 * Jonathan Lerman
 * Thristan Mendoza
 * Derek Paravicini
 * Refrigerator Mothers (film)
 * Jim Sinclair
 * Peter Szatmari
 * Gilles Trehin
 * Richard Wawro

Autism-related articles which have survived AfD

 * Controversies in autism - Articles for deletion/Controversies in autism April, 2006
 * Autism epidemic - Articles for deletion/Autism epidemic April, 2006
 * Edward Yazbak - Votes for deletion/Edward Yazbak, June, 2005
 * People speculated to have been autistic - Articles for deletion/People speculated to have been autistic - March 2006.
 * Burger School for Students with Autism - Articles for deletion/Burger School for Students with Autism - December 2008.

Autism-related articles which have been AfD'd

 * Early intevention for autism - deleted: Articles for deletion/Early intervention for autism, March, 2006
 * Asperger's self-identification - deleted: Articles for deletion/Asperger's self-identification, January, 2006
 * David Ayoub, MD - deleted: Articles for deletion/David Ayoub, August, 2007
 * Bryan Jepson, MD - deleted: Articles for deletion/Bryan Jepson, December, 2007
 * Neanderthal theory of the autism spectrum - deleted: Articles for deletion/Neanderthal theory of the autism spectrum, October, 2005
 * Thomas Verstraeten, MD, MSc - deleted: Articles for deletion/Thomas Verstraeten, September, 2007
 * Actors for Autism - deleted: Articles_for_deletion/Actors_for_Autism December, 2008

Active contributors on autism-related topics
Feel free to add or remove yourself from this list:


 * ombudsman
 * Rdos (inactive since Dec 2007)
 * Gerrit
 * Bearian
 * 6th Happiness
 * Thrashunreality
 * Muffinator
 * Lova Falk  talk

Autism-related Featured Articles
(Featured articles)
 * Asperger's syndrome
 * Autism

Autism-related templates

 * Autism-stub - tag articles as autism-related stub instead of stub