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"Contemporary Issues in Autism and Asperger's"
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Posted by yainipd on Friday, December 10, 2010 (07:50:59)
Featuring:
Dr. Ami Klin
This workshop will:
• Focus on issues pertaining to school-age, adolescents and adults
• Address challenges and practical interventions/approaches
• Discuss selective issues on assessment, treatments and implications of new research
• Present a practical guide and assist professionals who are working with people with ASD
Ami Klin, Ph.D. is the Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of London, and completed clinical and research post-doctoral fellowships at the Yale Child Study Center. He directs the Autism Program at Yale, which is one of the National Institutes of Health Autism Centers of Excellence. This program includes a broad range of diagnostic and treatment services, and an interdisciplinary program of research that includes behavioral, brain, and genetics investigations. The program also provides training in a broad range of disciplines, and is strongly committed to advocacy at the local, national and international levels. Dr. Klin's primary research activities focus on the social mind and the social brain, and on aspects of autism from infancy through adulthood. These studies include novel techniques such as the eye-tracking laboratories co-directed with Warren Jones, which allow researchers to see the world through the eyes of individuals with autism. These techniques are now being applied in the screening of babies at risk for autism in the Simons Laboratory of Social Neuroscience in Infancy. He is the author of over 150 publications in the field of autism and related conditions. He is also the co-editor of a textbook on Asperger Syndrome published by Guilford Press (soon to be released in its second edition), the third edition of the Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders published by Wiley, and several special issues of professional journals focused on autism and related disorders.
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Boy in a bubble
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Posted by sylvia on Monday, August 03, 2009 (23:34:04)
Scotland on Sunday By Catherine Deveney
IMAGINE an unfamiliar world in which little is recognisable and you feel constantly frightened.
Faces are impenetrable masks, the expressions on them both threatening yet devoid of specific meaning. You do not understand your position in this place you find yourself. You are a square peg in a round hole, constantly crammed into someone else's space that simply doesn't fit. The faces talk to you but their language is alien and you are frightened of misinterpreting their words. In fact, fear defines your world. You take comfort in ritual and repetition and scream when it is interrupted. Often you simply withdraw inside yourself to an internal world that contains only you.
This was Dale Gardner's world. As a child he was severely autistic. He is 20 now and it is fascinating to sit in his house in Gourock listening to him describe a world he finally emerged from. Autism is a complex condition that affects roughly one in 110 people in Scotland – that's 45,000 – and causes sufferers to have difficulty with social and linguistic interaction. The symptoms and severity of the condition vary; some autistic people will never learn to speak, others will function relatively normally. But it is very rare for someone like Dale, who at one time couldn't talk to his parents or empathise with others, to be able to unzip the autistic brain, show you what's inside, then zip it up again. His descriptions are often very simple and to the point. "I would say," he says, "that autism is a disability that makes people scared at the wrong times."
Two things prompted Dale's remarkable progress: the determination of his parents, Nuala and Jamie; and the help of a rather special dog called Henry. The story of how Henry helped bridge the gap between Dale's world and his parents' was first made into a film, After Thomas, starring Keeley Hawes, Ben Miles and Sheila Hancock, and Nuala later went on to tell the full story in her book, A Friend Like Henry. Now, she has taken things further. Dogs have long been used to help blind people and epilepsy sufferers. But she is working with Dogs for the Disabled to develop a full training course to reach autistic children. Results have been encouraging and she is now looking at the possibility of sourcing gun dogs.
Research Autism is also carrying out its own systematic evaluation of dog programmes and Richard Mills, the charity's director, says there has been an improvement in the quality of life for both the children involved and their families. "We're not building up hopes that this is a cure for autism but we really think there's something worth looking at. And while some interventions for autism are extremely expensive, this isn't."
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Surrey school reaches out with autism workshops
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Posted by lightfoot on Thursday, May 15, 2008 (23:23:33)
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS were yesterday introduced to new methodologies in teaching autistic children.
The Linden Bridge School from Surrey, England, which specialises in educating autistics from ages three to 19, is staging two weeks of workshops in Barbados in collaboration with the Autism Association of Barbados.
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TA Tips - Securing a Teachers Assistant For Your Autistic Student
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Posted by lightfoot on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (16:49:56)
By Harold Doherty
I am a lawyer and an active member of autism organizations in New Brunswick. Mostly I am the father of two boys one of whom is profoundly autistic. Like everyone else, I am continually fighting for a trained Teacher's Assistant to work with my autistic son; preferably one who has received the Autism Support Worker training course from UNB CEL. Many parents are fighting just to get a TA period. I offer these tips primarily for those who might need some guidance or who are just starting out. This is offered as parental advice and general information and is not offered as legal advice. For those seeking help in obtaining a TA I suggest the following and stress that you should seek assistance from other parents. I did. They were a big help in getting a TA for my son.
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Study supports rise in autism related to changes in diagnosis
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Posted by lightfoot on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (16:49:30)
By Craig Brierley
Research funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests that many children diagnosed with severe language disorders in the 1980s and 1990s would today be diagnosed as having autism. The research supports the theory that the rise in the number of cases of autism may be related to changes in how it is diagnosed.
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