AUTISM ON THE INTERNET

The Internet as the world wide information system is a global information network that provides instantly communication between a million users through its services. The Internet can be used in any science discipline especially in medicine. The aim of this paper is to show the possibilities of Internet in studying all the aspects of autism syndrome, introducing the public with some web-sites which treats autism and presenting the one and only web-site in Macedonia called Autism-Macedonia. In this paper are elaborated the Internet functioning model, some areas that can be found on Internet, some Internet services with their addresses and searching by Internet. This paper is dedicated to the widest medical and defectology public and the parents of the children with autism. The Internet is the “instrument” in the hands of the doctors, defectologysts or any other professionals. They can’t imagine their scientific work without it. It’s an “excellent weapon” in the hands of any person who wants to enrich its knowledge.