Participants
List of Chat Groups
∆ WACS Caregiver Groups To join the chat groups, please register here Caregiver-focused groups focus on supporting caregivers in their life journey including the resources they need to support their dependents. Researchers, students, social workers, autism professionals, disability advocates and anyone who is keen to support the autism community are welcome. Product/service providers are welcome...
Group Rules
Our chat network is built on the principles of Partnership Equality where every one of us strives to improve ourselves towards achieving equality with our non-autistic counterparts through excellence, competency and mutual collaboration. We do not promote Unconditional Inclusion which assumes incompetency and advocates accepting all flaws/problems unconditionally. This simply perpetrates/aggravates the discrimination and other...
Online Safety Advisory
Shared identity, diagnosis, friendship and apparent helpfulness are not guarantees of safety. Assess people by their conduct and keep ordinary safeguards in place whether a person is autistic, non-autistic, a caregiver, professional, volunteer or group administrator. Conduct that should be reported Tell a WACS administrator and, where appropriate, a trusted family member, caregiver, professional...
WhatsApp tips for chat groups
Here are some tips that can help to make the chat experience better: Use scribd.com and justpaste.it to post your long text and picture sharings to avoid flooding the group Learn how to use Google Forms so you can do registration/surveys without using chained messages Learn how to save files as PDF or use Google...