FUN WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Attend our February Free Webinar Speakers Series
Speakers Series ~ Click to Register for Webinars
FREE Webinar Series. Open to the public. Register Now to secure your space as seating is limited. IAES has arranged for some of the top experts in the field of autoimmune neurology and psychiatry to make presentations structured specifically for the layperson in mind on the most commonly asked about topics. Encourage, friends, family members, as well as your doctors and therapists, to attend one or more of these presentations.
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Autoimmune Encephalitis Trivia Playing Cards
Autoimmune Encephalitis Trivia Playing Cards
Purchase decks for your family members, friends, doctors and therapists during AE awareness month. IAES in collaboration with Dr. Josep Dalmau has created the first product in the world specifically addressing the needs of the AE Warrior™ and those impacted by Autoimmune Encephalitis. ALL proceeds will support Dr. Dalmau’s research group. Our excitement continues to build over the rave reviews we are receiving from experts in the field about our AE Trivia playing cards. Doctors have begun to provide decks to their patients and have been receiving smiles all around. The support patients have been reporting is so exciting and gratifying to hear. This simple educational and rehabilitation tool appears destined to be the greatest personal support any AE patient, caregiver, therapist, teacher, or medical professional can own. A true game-changer in helping you to become a strong advocate, receive an outstanding educational foundation about AE, and doubles as a rehabilitation tool!
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Watch and Share our Awareness video AE Warriors Stepping Forward
This is My Time
This inspiring video shows the wide age range and diversity of AE patients, it explains what AE is in simple terms and provides key RED FLAG warnings to any medical professional who views it. This is IAES’s 5th annual awareness video. Sharing this video on your social media platforms has proven to have a profound impact in raising AE awareness among the medical community and public which has lead to many patients receiving an accurate diagnosis in past years.
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Get your Story in your Local Newspaper or Television Station
Get Your AE Story in the News
IAES has done the work for you. Download our press release and directions. Reporters can make use of the quotes from experts cited in the press release to enhance any article. Additionally, you can provide any writer with the contact information for the doctor who diagnosed you. Make sure you contact your doctor to confirm that they would be open to discuss your case with a reporter for a human interest or health story. Personal stories about AE patients and their journey are the best way to raise awareness broadly and on a much larger scale. It involves a few simple steps. Contact local and national newspapers as well as popular magazines such as People, Time and Newsweek.
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Hold a FUNdraiser or Awareness Event at Work, School or Your Home
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Purchase an AE Awareness t-shirt or hoodie
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Assemble AE Survival Kits
Share your love and encouragement by purchasing a survival kit, (Goodies not included). IAES has created 11 different variations of these kits that are bound to bring smiles of pleasure to those who receive them. Create a kit for your AEWarrior™, AE Mom, Doctor, Psychiatrist, Nurse, Infusion day, Child or Caregiver. These kits are available year-round.
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Raise Awareness with IAES Candy Bar Wrappers
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AE Warrior and AE Caregiver Royal Registry Certificates
These IAES Royal Registry Certificates are only available during the month of February.
The Royal IAES Registry designates The AE Warrior™ and AE Sentinel with Royal Title. In recognition of their heroism under fire. The Royal IAES Registry is the highest honor to be bestowed upon those engaged in the mighty autoimmune encephalitis battle. Without warning and within an instant, these unprepared citizens were thrust unto a perilous fire raging battlefield. To fight demanded that they dig deep into the depths of their soul for the inner-strength they had to summon to save their life or the life of the one they loved. This act is so rare IAES sanctifies and affirms by sealed decry the bestowing of Royal Title into the IAES Registry on the second month of each year.
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The IAES Virtual Art Show
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Become an IAES Angel and receive a facebook picture frame announcing that you have
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Print and share this AE Infographic
