Sponsorship funding will help Asperger East Anglia
Asperger East Anglia has gained sponsorship from Acteon of Norwich, a group of sub sea oil and gas engineering companies operating throughout the world. The major sponsorship, over three years, will allow AEA to continuing to raise awareness of Asperger syndrome, but more particularly to help those families and dependents with the syndrome.
Recent research by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Autism Research Centre, at Cambridge University, has shown there is a higher occurrence of autism, specifically Asperger syndrome (AS), or High Functioning Autism (HFA) in families of engineers, physicists and mathematicians.
"We obviously have many requests for sponsorship but our main criteria when making a decision is that the charity falls in line with our business beliefs," said Paul Alcock, Vice President Marketing and Business Integration at Acteon.
"The theory that AS occurs more frequently in families where there is an engineering background is particularly interesting and we felt this was a very good reason to support Asperger East Anglia," he said.
"The sponsorship deal is all about communication. Running a successful engineering business depends heavily on attention to communication and for this reason we are sympathetic to people with Aspergers. It is a subtle yet specific link between the two organisations. We believe that what AEA is trying to do is what we are trying to do with engineers - raise awareness of the importance of communication."
Asperger East Anglia has gained sponsorship from Acteon of Norwich, a group of sub sea oil and gas engineering companies operating throughout the world. The major sponsorship, over three years, will allow AEA to continuing to raise awareness of Asperger syndrome, but more particularly to help those families and dependents with the syndrome.
Recent research by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Autism Research Centre, at Cambridge University, has shown there is a higher occurrence of autism, specifically Asperger syndrome (AS), or High Functioning Autism (HFA) in families of engineers, physicists and mathematicians.
"We obviously have many requests for sponsorship but our main criteria when making a decision is that the charity falls in line with our business beliefs," said Paul Alcock, Vice President Marketing and Business Integration at Acteon.
"The theory that AS occurs more frequently in families where there is an engineering background is particularly interesting and we felt this was a very good reason to support Asperger East Anglia," he said.
"The sponsorship deal is all about communication. Running a successful engineering business depends heavily on attention to communication and for this reason we are sympathetic to people with Aspergers. It is a subtle yet specific link between the two organisations. We believe that what AEA is trying to do is what we are trying to do with engineers - raise awareness of the importance of communication."