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The Daily Gleaner
April 11, 2008 - Fredericton CEOs nominated for award
The president of Virtual Expert Clinics, Cynthia Howroyd, is one of two technology leaders from Fredericton to be nominated for the Ernest C. Manning Awards to recognize achievements in innovation.
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Manning Innovation Award Nominations
April 10, 2008 - Cynthia Howroyd of Virtual Expert Clinics is one of five Atlantic Canadians nominated for the Manning Innovation Awards for AutismPro.
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The Montreal Gazette
April 8, 2008 - Guide will help spot autism earlier, foundation says
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CBC News
March 5, 2008 - Online autism therapy gets national recognition
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The Telegraph Journal
March 5, 2008 - Smart software ups autistic child's IQ.
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The Daily Gleaner
March 5, 2008 - Company wins award for its autism software.
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Rogers Communications
March 4, 2008 - Fredericton-Based Developer of Autism Learning Software Named National Winner of Rogers Innovations @ Work Award
Rogers today announced that Fredericton-based Virtual Expert Clinics, developer of AutismPro learning software for children with developmental disorders, has won one of two inaugural Rogers Innovations @ Work Awards.
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The Telegraph Journal
February 28, 2007 - Expert backing nets virtual clinic $1.5M venture capital investment
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The Daily Gleaner
February 28, 2007 - Capital keeps rolling in for autism software
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Indiana University Magazine
January 12, 2007 - Fighting to put autism on America's Priority List (interview with Dr. Cathy Pratt). "Autism research is incredibly under-funded. We don't know why the rate of autism diagnoses is increasing, and we need more research to find out ..."
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Autism Spectrum Quarterly AutismPro Offers New Hope to Parents of Children with Autism
Winter 2006 - Developed by World-Leading Autism Experts, AutismPro Empowers Parents to Overcome Frustrating Barriers to Timely, Affordable, and Customized Treatment
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The Telegraph Journal
November 13, 2006 - Empowering the parent.
A speech-language pathologist in Fredericton has developed an online program that makes parents of autistic children active treatment participants.
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The Toronto Star
October 31, 2006 - Online connection for caregivers
Internet start-ups track diseases such as Alzheimer's and provide up-to-date medical information. Some sites, particularly in the United States, are becoming successful enterprises in the health field.
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The Red Herring Automating Autism Treatment: Canadian company brings parents online treatment for children with autism.
October 30, 2006 - Autism is the fastest-growing developmental disability. The uptick in the disability has parents clamoring for earlier intervention. Virtual Expert Clinics has built an online, subscriber-based guidance system for those who care for children with autism
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Canadian Technology News
October 31, 2006 - Telehealth project to aid autism sufferers
Health expert provides daily low-cost guidance to families online.
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The Telegraph Journal
October 30, 2006 - Patients, caregivers connecting aid thanks to self-help Internet start-ups.
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Media Releases
Autism Software Available to US Schools through MAXIMUS-AutismPro Partnership
January 16, 2008 -
Fredericton, NB - Virtual Expert Clinics (VEC), creators of AutismPro®, an innovative software program for delivering autism services over the Internet - and MAXIMUS, a nationally recognized leader in special education, instructional management and response to intervention (RtI) solutions, today announced the creation of an international partnership that enables MAXIMUS to deliver the award-winning AutismPro® software solution to the US education market.
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Creator of Revolutionary Approach to Autism Treatment Finalist in Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Award
October 29, 2007 -
From Speech Language Pathologist on the road for children with autism to President of a software company with the potential to help millions of children around the world, Cynthia Howroyd was recognized for her contribution as a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards.
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Toronto District School Board Finds Innovative Tool for Teaching Children With Autism Using ABA Principles
October 22, 2007 -
The Toronto District School Board is using a cutting-edge, online technology tool called AutismPro to support educators of children with autism.
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Aussie Home Town Girl Returns with State-of-the-Art Autism Technology
March 19, 2007 -
Cynthia Howroyd, president of a Canadian company producing a technological solution to the lack of funding and services in the world-wide autism epidemic, returns to her Australian homeland with a leading autism researcher bearing the latest in autism research and technological choices.
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Canadian Autism Leaders to Make Exclusive Announcements about Autism and Technology on Australian Radio Show
March 7, 2007 -
The March 14 Statewide Morning with Tim Cox will feature an exclusive interview with Canadian autism leaders Dr. Jeanette Holden and Cynthia Howroyd. On a whirlwind tour of workshops and presentations the team from Canada will announce research findings from the world's first-ever in-depth study on the use of technology in providing autism services to families of children with autism.
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GrowthWorks and Business Development Bank of Canada Invest in Virtual Expert Clinics' Innovation for Autism
February 27, 2007 -
New Brunswick software company making a difference for families of children with autism receives financial support from leading venture capital organizations in Atlantic Canada.
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Canadian Technology Breakthrough in Autism Offered Globally
February 22, 2007 -
Following CDC reports of a sharp increase in the incidence of autism in North America,, an innovative Canadian company offers a free trial of its revolutionary patent-pending approach to guiding autism intervention over the Internet, and receives an overwhelming global response.
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Free Trial of New Software for Designing Autism Intervention
February 13, 2007 -
A trial version of AutismPro, AutismPro First Steps, will be available free of charge for a limited time to give parents, educators and clinicians an inside look at this innovative program for providing autism services over the Internet.
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Autism Expert Advocates Technological Solution to Senate Hearings
December 11, 2006 -
In her submission to the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology inquiry on the issue of funding for the treatment of autism, Canadian autism expert, Dr Jeanette Holden, advocated the use of technology to help alleviate the problem of insufficient funding for autism services.
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Clinic Sponsors International Autism Expert at ASA Conference
July 2006 -
Dr. Kathleen Ann Quill, author of the bestselling book DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY: Social and Communication Intervention for Children with Autism will talk about a new conceptual and technological approach to organizing intervention choices at the 2006 Autism Society of America (ASA) national conference in July.
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Virtual Expert Clinics Selected from Best of the Best Canadian Companies to Attend Venture Forum
May 23, 2006 -
Canadian Venture Forum selects Virtual Expert Clinics as one of the best of the best companies in Canada of interest to investors.
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Virtual Expert Clinics' Autism Education Software Gets High Marks in Beta Test
May 3, 2006 -
"We couldn't be happier with the results of this beta test," said Cynthia Howroyd, President and Founder of Virtual Expert Clinics (VEC), the developer of AutismPro, a subscription-based online program designed to help parents and therapists build and manage therapy programs for children with autism.
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