Help Autism Now Society

The Help Autism Now Society (HANS) was founded in 2002 by a physician and nurse, Paul and Linda, parents of a child severely affected with autism from birth. Despite over 40 years of combined medical experience they discovered that they had not received any training in autism. As a result they decided to develop a program that would greatly facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of autism, so that families would not suffer needlessly as a result of delayed diagnosis. For parents, HANS has developed television-advertising spots and these started airing in September of 2006 throughout the Northwest. Concurrently all the pediatricians, family practitioners and child psychiatrists, almost 2000 physicians, throughout Oregon, will be provided with a package of materials that HANS has created.