The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day is celebrated on April 2, 2014. This day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution "62/139. World Autism Awareness Day," adopted on 18 December 2007. World Autism Awareness Day was first celebrated next year, in 2008.

This year, Armenia is also going to celebrate this day, and a number of events are planned to take place in Yerevan on April 2:

• 13:00 – a march for autism from Yerevan’s City Hall to the Liberty Square.

• 14:00 – a concert and an exhibition of drawings of children who suffer from autism.

• 20:00 – the building of National Opera and Ballet Theatre will light up in bright blue in the frames of the Light It Up Blue initiative that started in 2010.