# Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market terms

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The subject of the last few posts has been Joey Travolta’s Inclusion Films. At University of North Florida (UNF) in Jacksonville, Travolta collaborated with a non-profit organisation called HEAL, to form another film camp in association with Inclusion Films and Filmlab Productions, called the HEAL Film Camp.

The HEAL (Healing Every Autistic Life) Foundation was founded in 2004 by pediatrician Julie Buckley, M.D. and Leslie Weed and her husband, golf course architect, Bobby Weed. All three individuals are parents of Autistic children…

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> …Since its inception, the foundation has provided funding for camps, educational programs, community projects and financial aid for families in the Jacksonville, Florida area. Ultimately, HEAL’s goal is to build HEAL House, a refuge where therapeutic programs and services can be offered under one roof…

Each year since 2007, a local golf course named TPC Sawgrass, has selected HEAL as its local charity. ‘Valley of Dreams’ events held there have raised more than $1 million for HEAL. Here are links to invitations to the 2008 and 2009 ‘Valley of Dreams’ events, will illustrations by a local artist on the Autism Spectrum, 20-year-old Kyle Walsh:  
[http://www.healautismnow.org/pdf/HealVODWebInvite.pdf](http://www.healautismnow.org/pdf/HealVODWebInvite.pdf)  
[http://www.healautismnow.org/pdfs/Heal\_VOD09\_WebInvite.pdf](http://www.healautismnow.org/pdfs/Heal_VOD09_WebInvite.pdf)

(source: [Ponte Vedra Neighbors: Fundraising under way for Winston ‘Y’ | StAugustine.com Mobile](http://m.staugustine.com/news/local-news/2011-10-15/ponte-vedra-neighbors-fundraising-under-way-winston-y))

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