About

SouthernUtahAutism.com is a free, not for profit endeavour by concerned and motivated parents of Autistic children in St. George and Southern Utah. While small right now, we are focused on gathering information and organizing support groups and parent groups.

If you have questions or comments, please email contact@southernutahautism.com and we will do our best to help, or at least point you in the right direction.

Some of the goals of Southern Utah Autism and this website are:

• Updated, current news for the support group and how to attend and participate.
• Information regarding any events in the Southern Utah area regarding Autism support, meetings, workshops, and/or any other educational resources.
• Parent to Parent resources, playgroup and/or playdate setup and information, information on Autism friendly babysitters or childcare, voluntary parent connections and resources.
• Gathering and making available as much information as possible on local (and statewide, Salt Lake City) services for autistic children. This will include competent and Autism friendly doctors, pediatricians, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and any other service providers.
• Information and resources on local facilities who provide services, like The Learning Center for Families, the local School District Special Education preschool, and any other places that have services or support to offer Autistic children.
• Information and links to medical and insurance resources for Autistic children, or children diagnosed with a PDD (Pervasive Development Disorder). We hope to include some overviews and instructions on the qualifications for things like Medicaid or CHIP, or how to find resources to help pay for services and treatments.
• Autism friendly businesses like dentists, hair-cutters, counselors, any any other of those types of places where a business can help cater to the basic everyday needs of an Autistic child.
• Website links and online resources to local and state agencies and facilities that can be helpful to Autistic children, as well as the people to talk to and contact at each place.

We will need your help gathering all this information, so through the support group, email, and this website, we hope to contact all those interested and start pooling our information and resources, and hopefully create a supportive and informative community for parents who have Autistic children.

If you are reading this, thank you so much for just being willing to be a part of trying to help families and parents of Autistic children in Southern Utah, and we hope to be able to turn this website into a great, comprehensive resources for everyone who has Autism in their lives.