Care and clinical
AMA - Association of Friends of the Autistic (São Paulo)
Associação de Amigos do Autista (AMA)
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Founded in São Paulo in 1983 by parents of autistic children, the first autism association in Brazil and Latin America. Runs education, therapy and social-assistance programmes and maintains a national directory of partner autism institutions.
- Focus
- Autism
- Leadership
- Family- or professional-led
- Where
- In person and online
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Since
- 1983
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Verified 2026-09-09 from ama.org.br. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.
Note: Won the UNESCO Human Rights Prize in 1998. Anchor organisation of a nationwide network of independently run AMA-branded associations in other cities and states, several catalogued separately in this file.
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