OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER: Fwd: We've got President Obama's attention

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Fwd: We've got President Obama's attention

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From: Autism Society of America <lee.grossman@autism-society.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Subject: We've got President Obama's attention
To: acunniff4852@gmail.com

Our best chance in over a decade to make a real difference!

Please Help Us Make President Obama's
Autism Priorities a Reality for
All Affected by Autism!

TELL A FRIEND

Dear AnnMarie,

Our new president has outlined his national disabilities agenda - and autism is the only condition highlighted specifically!

We've never had an opportunity as good as this in recent history… we may never have one like it again.

AnnMarie, the Autism Society of America, the nation's leading grassroots autism organization, helped focus President Obama's attention on our cause when we invited him and fellow candidate John McCain to speak at last July's ASA Town Meeting on Health Care.

Now we need your most generous financial support so that we can build upon our incredible momentum and rally the entire country to get behind President Obama's autism goals!

Summary of the Obama Administration's Autism Agenda:
1. Increased funding for research, treatment screenings, awareness, and support.
2. Improved life-long services for children and adults with ASD.
3. Funding the Combating Autism Act to improve federal/state autism programs.
4. Universal safe, secure ASD screenings for infants and 2-year-olds.
To read the Autism Agenda in its entirety, visit whitehouse.gov.

On behalf of everyone at the Autism Society of America, I congratulate you on helping us to achieve this wonderful initial victory… and I implore you not to let this opportunity be lost…

Please give as generously as you can, as soon as you can… And tell others that now is the time to join our vital cause! Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Lee Grossman
President and CEO
ASA Member since 1991
Parent of a son with autism

Autism Society of America | 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 300 | Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3067