The mission of the National Autism Association (NAA) is to educate and empower families affected by autism and other neurological disorders, while advocating on behalf of those who cannot fight for their own rights. NAA educates society that autism is not a lifelong incurable genetic disorder, but one that is biomedically definable and treatable. NAA raises public and professional awareness of environmental toxins as causative factors in neurological damage that often results in an autism or related diagnosis. NAA encourages those in the autism community to never give up in their search to help their loved ones reach their full potential. NAA funds the appropriate research for finding a cure for the neurological damage from which so many affected by autism suffer.