Keynote papers:

Autism, bonding, patterns and reflection: by Donna Williams - Author, Australia

Autism Ten Years From Now: by Arman Khodaei - USA

Celebrating The Human Genome - the inheritable traits of humanity include autism: by Mark Ty-Wharton - Speaker and writer, Biggleswade, UK

Behavioural 'Problems' and Autism: by Merry Barua - Action for Autism, India

Implications of the Social Disability in Autism: Within and Beyond the Social: by Professor Rita Jordan - University of Birmingham, UK

Let's Stop Hiding Autism: by Carole Rutherford - Autism-in-Mind, UK

From pariah to life coach and presenter: Aspies linking with NTs: by Dr Jeffrey Deutsch - USA

Improving Social Skills in the Middle School Age Child with High-Functioning Autism: by Pam Angel - Speech and language therapist, Franklin, Tennessee, USA

The TEACCH Programme in the Era of Evidence-Based Practice: by Dr Gary Mesibov - Former director, Division TEACCH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

The Relationship Between Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Mental Health Professionals: by Dr Efrosini Kalyva - City College, Thessaloniki, Greece

Successful Strategies for Inclusion of Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. What is YOUR Experience? Is it working? Where are we up to in 2010?: by Sue Larkey - International Author, Autism Spectrum Specialist, Teacher, Australia

Autism and epilepsy: Historical perspective: by Dr Roberto Tuchman - Director, Autism and Neurodevelopment Programme at Miami Children's Hospital Dan Marino Centre, Miami, Florida, USA

What it means to be on the autism spectrum (AS) and how to respond to a family member/partner at point of diagnosis: by Dr Wendy Lawson - Author, Australia

Social Networks and Friendships at School: Comparing Children With and Without ASD: by Dr Connie Kasari - UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, Los Angeles, USA

Defining the broader, medium and narrow autism phenotype among parents using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ): by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, et al. - University of Cambridge, UK

Hyperlexia III: Separating 'autistic-like' behaviours from 'Autistic Disorder': by Dr Darold Treffert - University of Wisconsin, USA

Potential teratogenic effects of ultrasound on corticogenesis: Implications for autism: by Dr Manuel Casanova - University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Narrative comprehension in 4-7-year-old children with autism: testing the Weak Central Coherence account: by Dr Edith L. Bavin - La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Recent studies on feeding problems in children with autism: by Dr Valerie Volkert - Nebraska Medical Center, USA

How Magic Changes Our Expectations About Autism: by Professor Susan Leekam - University of Cardiff, Wales

The Gift of the Horse: by Dr Liane Holliday Willey - Author, USA

The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy comprehension in children with autism: by Dr Gabriella Rundblad - Kings College London, UK

Evolution of Autism Support and Understanding Via the World Wide Web: by Chloe Jordan - Boston University, Massachusetts, USA

Autism and anorexia nervosa: Two facets of the same disease?: by Dr Michel Odent - Primal Health Research Centre, London, UK

Catatonia is hidden in plain sight in autism and other pediatric disorders: by Dr Dirk Dhossche - University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Orthographic and Phonological Pathways in Hyperlexic Readers With Autism Spectrum Disorders: by Dr David Saldana - University of Seville, Spain

Local and global processing in savant artists with autism: by Professor Linda Pring - Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Theory of own mind in autism : Evidence of a specific deficit in self-awareness?: by Dr David Williams - Durham University, UK

Social Story (TM) Interventions for Students with Autism Spectrum: by Anastasia Kokina - Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA

Self-referenced processing, neurodevelopment and joint attention in autism: by Dr Peter Mundy - UC Davis School of Education and the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, Sacramento, California, USA

Elevated plasma cytokines in autism spectrum disorders provide evidenceof immune dysfunction and are associated with impaired behavioural outcome: by Dr Paul Ashwood - M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California at Davis, USA

Social and demographic factors that influence the diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders: by Ginny Russell - EXRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Stimulus Overselectivity Four Decades Later: A Review of the Literature and Its Implications for Current Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder: by Dr Bertram O. Ploog - University of California, San Diego, USA

Changes in the Autism Behavioural Phenotype During the Transition to Adulthood: by Dr Julie Lounds Taylor - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

The Relation of Humour and Child Development: Social, Adaptive and Emotional Aspects: by Dr Margaret Semrud-Clikeman - Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Are ADHD Traits Dissociable from the Autistic Profile? Links Between Cognition and Behaviour: by Dr Catherine Ames - Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK

The role of neurotrophic factors in autism: by Dr Thomas Nickl-Jockschat - RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Analogical reasoning ability in autistic and typically developing children: by Dr Kinga Morsanyi - University of Plymouth, UK

Right-Hemisphere Dysfunction and Metaphor Comprehension in Young Adults with Asperger Syndrome: by Dr Rinat Gold - Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Dimensional and categorical diagnostic assessment within and outside the autism spectrum as a solid basis for healthcare and research: by Dr Kirstin Greaves-Lord - Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Erasmus MC Sophia, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Exploring the building blocks of social cognition: spontaneous agency perception and visual perspective taking in autism: by Dr Jan Zwickel - Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Object Identification and Imagination: An Alternative to the Meta-Representational Explanation of Autism: by Dr Cooper R. Woodard - Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Association of Hospitalization for Infection in Childhood With a Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders - A Danish Cohort Study: by Dr Hjordis Osk Atladottir - Department of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Hyperserotonemia in autism: activity of 5HT-associated platelet proteins: by Dr Dubravka Hranilovic - Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Non-word repetition in adolescents with Specific Language Impairment and Autism Plus Language Impairments: A Qualitative Analysis: by Nick Riches - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK

MEG Detection of Delayed Auditory Evoked Responses in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Towards an Imaging Biomarker for Autism: by Dr Timothy Roberts - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Evidence for syntactic alignment in children with autism: by Dr Melissa Allen Preissler - Lancaster University, UK

Location, location, location: alterations in the functional topography of face- but not object- or place-related cortex in adolescents with autism: by Dr K. Suzanne Scherf - Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Superior estimation abilities in two autistic spectrum children: by Dr Isabelle Soulieres - Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Relationships between Stereotyped Movements and Sensory Processing Disorders in Children with and without Developmental or Sensory Disorders: by Dr Eynat Gal - University of Haifa, Israel

'Everyday Memory' Impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders: by Dr Catherine Jones - Institute of Education, University of London, UK

Predicting Treatment Success in Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The UCLA PEERS Programme: by Dr Elizabeth Laugeson - UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour, Los Angeles, USA

Polymorphisms of candidate genes in Slovak autistic patients: by Dr Silvia Lakatosova (Kelemenova) - Institute of Physiology, Bratislava, Slovakia

Trivial differences: by Jesse A. Saperstein - Author, USA