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We offer 3 options for membership in AHA:

• A one year membership ($40.00)
• A two year membership ($70.00)
• Lifetime membership ($400.00)

Membership benefits are extended to your whole family and include:

• Our quarterly newsletter (click here to see a sample)
• Discounts at conferences and events which AHA hosts
• You’ll have the privilege of utilizing our extensive library of books, articles, audio and video and digital media.
• Eligibility to join our family bowling program and our annual picnic
• Eligibility to join our network of concerned parents and professionals and to share the wealth of information they have about school districts and agencies in the area

Here’s how you can join:

• You can do it now by using our on-line registration form and then pay through the secure PayPal payment service.   After filling out our application please return to this page choose the type of membership you wish to purchase and proceed to PayPal .
• Please Note that your membership will not be activated until we have received payment.

OR

• You can download an application. You will need Acrobat Reader to print this file. This is a free download and is available at:  print this application and mail along with your check (made payable to AHA Association) for  $40 (1 year) , $70 (2 year) or $400 (Lifetime):

  AHA
  P.O. Box 916
  Bethpage, NY 11714-0916

OR

• You may request a brochure from our office. Please contact membership@ahaNY.org or call 516.470.0360.

Membership allows you access (through the president) to information in our database about school districts and, if you signed permission on the membership form, other families with simiilar issues.

AHA notifies members of relevant articles, events, and date changes or cancellations. If you wish to be on this list, click here. Posts are sent in blind copy to respect your privacy.

The picture below was taken in November of 2003 in Washington, D.C. at a luncheon given by NAAR (the National Alliance for Autism Research) at an Autism Summit. NAAR was an important grass roots group that started way before Autism Speaks and is now part of Autism Speaks. Pictured from left to right are: Lynda Geller, Ph.D. (currently the director of the Asperger Institute at NYU Child Study Center), me - Pat Schissel - President of AHA - Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Association, my colleague and friend Bernice Polinsky also from AHA, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton who gave the keynote  speech at the luncheon, May-Lynn Andresen the director of the North Shore - LIJ Center for Autism in Bethpage, Bernard Rosof (a former trustee of NAAR, retired VP of NS-LIJ Health Systems and a strong supporter of the Autism Center) and Mark Krinsky and former trustee of NAAR.