http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6491 <pre>www.awares.org/conferences Just a reminder that Liane Holliday Willey will be online all day to answer your autism-related questions on Monday, May 20, 2013, from 1pm (UK time) - or 8am Eastern Standard Time in the US. Please register right now at www.awares.org/conferences to read Liane's paper immediately and to join in the discussion forum next Monday. This online conference is open to everyone, so please let your friends, colleagues and networks know about this exciting event. Dr Liane Holliday Willey, Ed.D. (www.aspie.com) is an inspirational speaker who helps her audience truly understand the importance of accepting people with differences. All her life, Liane knew she was different, but only after one of her family members was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome did Liane realize the reason behind her own differences; she too was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Liane spends much of her time working with horses at the equestrian facility she owns. Dr Willey has authored several internationally b</pre> Adam Feinstein 2013-05-17T11:55:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6490 <pre>www.awares.org/conferences I am thrilled to announce that Professor Rita Jordan - one of the world's truly great authorities on autism - will be online to answer your questions all day on Thursday, April 25, 2013. This is the latest in our series of Awares one-day online conferences which I organise here at the Awares Conference Centre every month. These conferences are run by Autism Cymru, Wales's pioneering national charity for autism. Register right now at www.awares.org/conferences to read Rita's superb new paper immediately and then join in the Discussion forum on April 25. This online conference is open to everyone, so please let all your friends, colleagues and networks know about this unique opportunity to link up with a remarkable figure who has done so much to advance the understanding of autism around the globe. Rita Jordan has been Professor of Autism at the University of Birmingham, in the UK, where she ran programmes of study (campus-based and by distance) for professionals and parents worki</pre> Adam Feinstein 2013-04-17T20:40:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6489 <pre> ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Molli Young &lt;young.molli&lt; at &gt;yahoo.com&gt; To: "autism_support_group&lt; at &gt;yahoogroups.com" &lt;autism_support_group&lt; at &gt;yahoogroups.com&gt; Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:53 PM Subject: Article I just read this article and wanted to share it with the group. http://nationalautismnetwork.com/articles.html/_/autism-awareness-news/the-autism-revolution-whole-body-strategies-fo-r934</pre> Molli Young 2013-04-15T18:57:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6488 <pre>www.awares.org/conferences Put your autism-related questions directly to Dr Olga Bogdashina on March 27, 2013. And register right now at www.awares.org/conferences to read her brilliant new paper on sensory issues. Olga Bogdashina MA Education (Autism), PhD (Linguistics) has worked extensively in the field of autism, as teacher, lecturer and researcher with particular interests in sensory perception, cognitive functioning, communication and language development in autism. Since 1994, she has been the Director of the first Day Centre for autistic children in Ukraine and the President of the Ukrainian Autism Society. She is Co-founder and Programme Leader and Lecturer at the International Autism Institute, KSPU. She has worked extensively in the field of autism as a teacher, lecturer and researcher. She is a visiting lecturer at universities in Europe, presents at national and international autism conferences and is an Autism Consultant for services for children and adults. Olga has written five books in Eng</pre> Adam Feinstein 2013-03-13T11:48:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6487 <pre>www.awares.org/conferences Hard on the heels of the great success of last month's Awares online autism conference with Professor Simon Baron-Cohen - sponsored by Options Group - I am delighted to announce that the presenter at this month's event, on February 27, is Charlotte Moore. Charlotte is the author of 'George And Sam', her acclaimed account of life with her autistic sons. She has also published four novels, four historical books for children and 'Hancox - A House And A Family', a social history based on a family archive. She is a freelance journalist and has written widely about autism, and has spoken on the subject at many meetings and conferences. She lives in East Sussex with her three sons. An updated edition of 'George And Sam' - including her 'Mind The Gap' columns originally written for The Guardian - is available in Penguin paperback. Register right now for this one-day conference at www.awares.org/conferences Charlotte's paper will appear on the conference site very shortly and she hersel</pre> Adam Feinstein 2013-02-17T10:48:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6486 <pre>On March 23, 2013 Advancing Abilities of Wisconsin is having an exciting conference in Mequon, Wisconsin on increasing social participation for individuals with autism and other differences by top experts in the field! Participants will learn important techniques and cutting edge strategies in this important area! Find out more at www.AdvancingAbilitiesWI.com and visit our "Events" page! &lt;http://www.advancingabilitieswi.com&gt; &lt;http://www.advancingabilitieswi.com&gt; Advancing Abilities of Wisconsin &lt;http://www.advancingabilitieswi.com&gt; The presenters: Rhonda J. Greenhaw, MA, BCBA Director, Hussman Center for Adults with Autism at Towson University Board Certified Behavior Analyst Member of several think tanks and workgroups on disability and autism-related issues Clinical Assistant Professor, Towson University Chief Clinical Officer, Advancing Abilities Parent of a daughter on the spectrum Zosia Zaks, MS, CRC Author: Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults Certified Rehabilit</pre> rhondagwood 2013-02-10T16:51:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6485 <pre>*www.awares.org/conferences* Just a reminder that the first presenter this year in Autism Cymru's exciting series of monthly one-day online autism conferences is Professor Simon Baron-Cohen - one of the world's best-known and most highly respected names in autism research. This conference is kindly sponsored by Options Group, a leading provider of specialist care, education and therapy for children, young people and adults with autism, Asperger's syndrome, learning disabilities and complex needs. Simon's paper is available to read right now at *www.awares.org/conferences*once you have registered and he himself will be online all day from 9am (UK time) this coming Thursday - January 31, 2013 - to answer your questions. The event is open to all - so please let your friends, colleagues and networks know about this unique opportunity. Simon is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge, Fellow in Experimental Psychology at Trinity College, Cambridge and Co-director of the Auti</pre> Adam Feinstein 2013-01-29T20:05:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6484 <pre>http://www.gatewaycounselling.com.au/components/com_content/wmnw.html JOHN CUPACH</pre> JOHN CUPACH 2013-01-25T05:02:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6483 <pre>I have found that the best information and least misleading information for any therapy or treatment comes from the parents. Certainly the most trustworthy. Here is a website that has testimonials of parents who have experienced stem cells for their special needs chidren, especially autism. As Parents and Grandparents, we have to depend on each other for factual information. Go to http://stemcellscaribbean.homestead.com/testimonials.html?_=1359004863342 Robert "Poppa" to Garrett with CP ------------------------------------ </pre> Robert 2013-01-24T06:33:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6482 <pre>That's great to hear.  Thanks Tink...another happy ending. Tom --- On Fri, 1/18/13, tinkadinkadoo &lt;tink.le&lt; at &gt;att.net&gt; wrote: From: tinkadinkadoo &lt;tink.le&lt; at &gt;att.net&gt; Subject: [Autismlist] Re: Tink is Alive and Well To: autismlist&lt; at &gt;yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 18, 2013, 1:59 PM   Has it been years? Oy vey! Seems like days. We're surely alive and well in Illinois. Sorry you were worried. Ben is fine and in a high school program now. I won't be saying where, etc, due to privacy concerns with the list and all. But, he's great. Getting used to using an iPad which his uncle generously gave to him. He is still very interested in communicating with songs/song lyrics/clips of audio etc. Communication on iPad and Dynavox device is otherwise very functional at this point. He likes high school but the days are long and he gets very tired. He relies on hand support at times (when he is very tired or in a hurry.) He is still grooving on Christmas and pl</pre> Tom Smith 2013-01-19T19:56:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6481 <pre>I am so.......happy to hear the update on you and your amazing family. Lots of love and gratitude to hear from you again. You have been missed!!!!! Love, Mary Ann Sent from my iPhone On Jan 18, 2013, at 4:59 PM, "tinkadinkadoo" &lt;tink.le&lt; at &gt;att.net&gt; wrote: r on iPad to help get around. He still plays American Woman/Guess Who when he's mad at me. :) More later. Have to run. Work is busy. School schedules keep me hopping. Orion is in 2nd y ------------------------------------ </pre> Mary Ann 2013-01-19T02:50:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6480 <pre> Has it been years? Oy vey! Seems like days. We're surely alive and well in Illinois. Sorry you were worried. Ben is fine and in a high school program now. I won't be saying where, etc, due to privacy concerns with the list and all. But, he's great. Getting used to using an iPad which his uncle generously gave to him. He is still very interested in communicating with songs/song lyrics/clips of audio etc. Communication on iPad and Dynavox device is otherwise very functional at this point. He likes high school but the days are long and he gets very tired. He relies on hand support at times (when he is very tired or in a hurry.) He is still grooving on Christmas and plays the music from about July to March. lol He can maneuver the web and u-tube very well and uses word predictor on iPad to help get around. He still plays American Woman/Guess Who when he's mad at me. :) More later. Have to run. Work is busy. School schedules keep me hopping. Orion is in 2nd year H.S. Straight A student. </pre> tinkadinkadoo 2013-01-18T21:59:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6479 <pre>Tink posted on autismfc the other day plus her email (tink.le&lt; at &gt;att.net) is still enrolled here. I don't know where she has been these past years but at least she appears to be doing well. I know many people here liked her very much so and I was worried about her so I'm just letting you know. Tom ------------------------------------ </pre> Tom Smith 2013-01-18T19:38:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6478 <pre>www.awares.org/conferences First of all, a very happy New Year and all the best for 2013. I am delighted to announce that the first presenter this year in our exciting series of monthly one-day online autism conferences is Professor Simon Baron-Cohen - one of the best-known and most highly respected names in the world of autism research. Simon's paper is available to read right now at www.awares.org/conferences once you have registered and he himself will be online all day from 9am (UK time) on January 31, 2013 to answer your questions. The event is open to all - so please let your friends, colleagues and networks know about it. Simon is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge, Fellow in Experimental Psychology at Trinity College, Cambridge and Co-director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He is also Director of CLASS, the Cambridge Lifespan Asperger Syndrome Service.He is the author of many books, including: Mindblindness (MIT Press, 1995), Autism: The F</pre> Adam Feinstein 2013-01-05T15:19:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6477 <pre>With the explicit permission of Barb Rentenbach, I am posting here on autismlist, with its public archives open to the whole world, a message that she posted last to week a group with an archives only open to the members: "hi all. barb rentenbach here. at age 40 im finally typing independently and by no coincidence just in time to help market my new book: 'i might be you: an exploration of autism and connection' by barb rentenbach and lois prislovsky. for more information about the book please check out our web site: www.muleandmuseproductions.com it is for sale at amazon.com and barns and nobles.com. a portion of all profits go to the greater living institute (GLI) a non-profit organization created to help bright adolescents and adults with disabilities. to order directly from our company for more speedy delivery and perhaps a copy signed by the authors just in time for christmas (please note who you would like us to sign it to on the "special instructions" page). the direct link for that is: http://shop.m</pre> Arthur 2012-12-16T10:07:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6476 <pre>*www.awares.org/conferences* We are delighted to welcome two of the world's leading autism authorities, Theo Peeters and Hilde De Clercq, all day from 9am (UK time) on December 17, 2012 - as the latest presenters in our exciting series of monthly online conferences here on the Awares Conference Centre. Theo and Hilde's papers are available to read immediately at *www.awares.org/conferences*once you have registered and they themselves will be online all day on December 17 to answer your questions. Please let your friends, colleagues and networks know about this exciting event. Register right now at *www.awares.org/conferences *and do not miss out on this unique opportunity. *Theo Peeters *graduated in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Louvain and gained his Masters in Neurolinguistics from the University of Brussels. He acquired a second Masters in Human Communication. from the University of London. He studied the psycho-educational approach to autism at the TEACCH headquarters, University</pre> Adam Feinstein 2012-12-13T12:32:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6475 <pre>www.awares.org/conferences Autism2012 - the Awares international online autism conference - is drawing to a close (I have extended it until midnight, UK time, on Sunday, December 9, 2012). The discussions have been fascinating, with Donna Williams, Wendy Lawson, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and many other top names from the world of autism taking part. Not only have delegates had the unique opportunity to put their questions directly to these and the more than sixty other leading world autism authorities and individuals on the spectrum - and read their illuminating papers. There have also been stimulating and informative exchanges between the experts. And you can join in right now until Sunday evening, so register at www.awares.org/conferences and don't miss out on this invaluable chance! Like all Awares online autism conferences, the event is open to all. Please let your friends, and colleagues and networks know about this exciting conference. I am also delighted to say that the next Awares one-day onlin</pre> Adam Feinstein 2012-12-06T17:22:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6474 <pre>*www.awares.org/conferences* Just a quick note to say that I have decided to extend Autism2012 - the Awares international online conference - for at least another week, until November 30, due to public demand. I hope this will give you plenty of time to take part in the lively and informative discussions with many of the world's leading autism authorities and people on the spectrum, including Donna Williams, Wendy Lawson, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, Darold Treffert, Lucy Hawking (Stephen Hawking's daughter) and Kathy Lette. You can also read the remarkable range of papers from the more than sixty presenters. Register right now at www.awares.org/conferences Please let your friends, colleagues and networks know about this exciting event. Best wishes, Adam Feinstein </pre> Adam Feinstein 2012-11-26T10:16:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6473 <pre>www.awares.org/conferences More than sixty papers are online now and the presenters - among the world's leading autism authorities and individuals with ASD - will be answering your questions from November 19 to 23, 2012. Register right now at www.awares.org/conferences for this unique opportunity to connect directly with the some of the top names in the field! Donna Williams on autism and dissociation, Wendy Lawson on autism and ageing, Lucy Hawking on life with an autistic son (and with her famous father), Kathy Lette on her ‘challenging, hilarious, humbling and enriching’ experiences with her Asperger syndrome son, Dr Darold Treffert on the myths and realities of savant syndrome, Dr Connie Kasari on targeted interventions on joint attention and play, Dr William Mandy on high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome, Dennis Debbaudt on autism and the emergency services and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay on his very different mind - these are just a few of the extraordinary range of papers already onlin</pre> Adam Feinstein 2012-11-15T05:04:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6472 <pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!-- .bold { font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } .Center1 { text-align: center; } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;p&gt;A hero in the autism community has the opportunity to win a NASCAR Foundation Humanitarian Award which will contribute $100,000 to an Autism School she founded.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;What is her most significant contribution to the Autism community so far? &lt;span class="bold"&gt;&lt;span&gt;She has been instrumental in getting health insurance to cover the cost of intensive ABA services!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;She wrote a law in South Carolina that requires health insurance providers to cover ABA services.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;As a result, with the support of Autism Speaks, she has helped about 30 states so f</pre> karl< at >dttrainer.com 2012-11-14T15:57:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.autism/6471 <pre>I am a Graduate student working on my Masters in Clinical Psychology and have worked in the autism community for years. I wanted to give parents of children with autism ages 2-17 an opportunity to take this short online survey to further autism treatment research. You can find the survey at: http://tolu.na/UGlkrw Thank you all for your help! ------------------------------------ </pre> free2jive16 2012-11-06T15:24:48 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.autism