[FEAT BC Admin]

In this discussion area, please feel free to share your experience in implementing A.B.A. programs in the school system. We would particularly like to hear from those parents who converted their school teams to A.B.A. We’d like to hear the nightmares as well as the success stories.

Any insight that can be shared by school-based special education assistants to help parents would also be very meaningful.

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[Joanna Ng]

Dear FEAT readers,

This is an invitation for all parents in the Burnaby area to meet up. We are a group of parents who would like to know and help one another in dealing and working better with the school board. This is the only effective way to help our children get the aide they need in school in the light of government cutbacks, school boards/staffs who are not open [yet does literally nothing to help the kids]; non-transparent and denies the support[yet grabs the funding].

Surrey has come this far and excels in having ABA support in the school. Can you imagine? It's just an imagination/ideal dream for parents like us but is already happening in Surrey. This does not happen without huge,endless effort from parents like Nancy.

Let us come together [despite our busy,tight schedule] and make Burnaby another good example for our kids in school.

Meeting:
Date: Saturday June 19th
Time: 6:30-8pm
Venue: Metrotown Mall, Food Court [upper level] close to the Bay
Near the fireplace.

Please forward this message to any parents/families you know who lives in the Burnaby area.

Hope to see everyone there.

If you can't make it, you can still email me and join the group.

hana.takuya@yahoo.com

[Dione Costanzo]

Hi everyone,

For anyone that could not attend the recent (current) presentations of "ABA in the Classroom: What it Can Look Like" with Nancy Walton and Sharon Baxter please note that they are giving this presentation again at the second annual BC-ABA conference at UBC in Vancouver this weekend.

There is lots of space left and you can register at the door.

You can download the complete conference schedule from the ABA Support Network website under "News and Events"

http://www.abasupportnetwork.com

or from the BC-ABA website under "Workshops" at

http://www.bc-aba.org

Cheers,
Dione

[Super Dad]

To parents of kids in independent schools:

A family has been told their grade 2 kid must go to a clinic for a battery of tests (even though he already has an official diagnosis), in order for the school to continue receiving money for his classroom aide.

The problem is that the testing will cost the parents a couple thousand dollars, plus many hours of time.

Have you been asked to do a reassessment? If so, have you managed to get out of it?

Tony
tony.tamer@yahoo.com

[Super Dad]

*** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** REMINDER ***

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

a presentation on
ABA in the Classroom
What it Can Look Like with Support from the School District

by
Nancy Walton, Teacher, Parent
Sharon Baxter, MA, BCBA

at
7:00pm, Tues June 15

in the
Oak Room
in the South Building of the
Delbrook Recreation Centre

TOPIC:
Have you ever wished for ABA support for your child, and have been told by the school that it is impossible? We will show you examples of what can be done when a school district makes the children their highest priority.

GUEST SPEAKER 1:
This presentation will include a brief history of ABA in the Surrey School District, presented by Nancy Walton. There are now 60 well trained ABA Support Workers working in an ABA supported environment in the Surrey District. She will explain the process that the district and parents went through to achieve this working relationship as well as give the details of the criteria established for hiring practices in Surrey.

GUEST SPEAKER 2:
Sharon Baxter, who has an MA in ABA and is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA), will present examples of the design and implementation of ABA programs in the classroom, including video examples. She will cover programming for academic literacy, communication, self-management (behaviour), social skills, and classroom management for students of varying ages and levels of independence.

DATE:
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

TIME:
7 – 9 pm

LOCATION:
Oak Room, in the South Building of the Delbrook Recreation Centre
(600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

For those going north/west on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn right at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd. For those going east on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn left at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd.

Coffee/Tea and snacks provided. Donations are greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP to Carol at <colemanmoser@hotmail.com>.

Carol and Tony
(Co-facilitators for ASBC North Shore Group)

[Super Dad]

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

a presentation on
ABA in the Classroom
What it Can Look Like with Support from the School District

by
Nancy Walton, Teacher, Parent
Sharon Baxter, MA, BCBA

at
7:00pm, Tues June 15

in the
Oak Room
in the South Building of the
Delbrook Recreation Centre

TOPIC:
Have you ever wished for ABA support for your child, and have been told by the school that it is impossible? We will show you examples of what can be done when a school district makes the children their highest priority.

GUEST SPEAKER 1:
This presentation will include a brief history of ABA in the Surrey School District, presented by Nancy Walton. There are now 60 well trained ABA Support Workers working in an ABA supported environment in the Surrey District. She will explain the process that the district and parents went through to achieve this working relationship as well as give the details of the criteria established for hiring practices in Surrey.

GUEST SPEAKER 2:
Sharon Baxter, who has an MA in ABA and is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA), will present examples of the design and implementation of ABA programs in the classroom, including video examples. She will cover programming for academic literacy, communication, self-management (behaviour), social skills, and classroom management for students of varying ages and levels of independence.

DATE:
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

TIME:
7 – 9 pm

LOCATION:
Oak Room, in the South Building of the Delbrook Recreation Centre
(600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

For those going north/west on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn right at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd. For those going east on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn left at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd.

Coffee/Tea and snacks provided. Donations are greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP to Carol at <colemanmoser@hotmail.com>.

Carol and Tony
(Co-facilitators for ASBC North Shore Group)

[Luke’s mama]

Hi Bev
Will there by any posting of this radio interview? I was out on the 26th so I could not listen or call in to support this important cause. Please post so we can listen and be inspired. Thanks.

[Bev Sharpe]

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message By Bev Sharpe (Sharpe) on Monday, May 24, 2010 – 12:31 pm:

This Wednesday, May 26th. Paul Caune, executive director of Paladin Advocacy League (PAL) and Jean Lewis, former FEAT of BC director and co-founder of Medicare for Autism Now, will be guests on the Bill Good Show. They can be heard between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. on CKNW 980 AM. Please tune in to hear Paul and Jean describe the events which inspired the creation of PAL, and how PAL intends to advocate for the rights of all British Columbians with disabilities. If you can, call in and join the discussion.

Beverley

[Bev Sharpe]

By Bev Sharpe (Sharpe) on Monday, May 24, 2010 – 12:09 pm:

By Bev Sharpe (Sharpe) on Monday, May 24, 2010 – 12:07 pm:

Attention all FEAT parents and supporters!

Please see the following information and invitation from Paladin Advocacy League of PAL.

You are all invited to PAL's launch event this Saturday, May 29th. PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE…IT WILL BEGIN AT 2:30 PM as opposed to 1:00

I, along with former FEAT of BC director, and founder of Medicare for Autism Now Jean Lewis, are on the PAL board of directors.

Like FEAT of BC, PAL is a 100% volunteer advocacy organization.

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday.

Beverley

Are the following words true for you?

“Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on mental or physical disability” Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

If you are a Canadian who has been discriminated against due to a mental or physical disability, please read on….

Lack of effective public policy and political will has allowed Canadian institutions at all levels to deny Canadians with disabilities equal access to full citizenship as guaranteed in our Charter. Despite what our politicians tell us and the rest of the world, systemic discrimination is an everyday reality in Canada for most of us living with a disability.

The way to right this wrong is through real advocacy, political will and law.

The Paladin Advocacy League (PAL) is a recently formed not-for-profit society which advocates for public policy changes which will provide Canadians with disabilities equal access to the equality provisions of our Charter….actions speak louder than words.

We intend to put our founding principles into action by:

1. Advocating for public policy changes which will enforce the equality provisions of the Charter of Rights (Section 15) creating practical force and effect for all British Columbians with a disability.
2. Advocating for portable, consumer-driven individualized funding for British Columbians with disabilities.
3. Advocating for government-funded legal counsel for test cases.

Canadians with disabilities are also Canadian citizens with the responsibility to vote and make clear to our politicians and bureaucrats that it is nothing more than reasonable to expect equal rights in Canada in the 21st century!

We want to meet with you to talk, listen, discuss, plan, laugh…and, of course, eat cookies! Coffee will also be served.

Please join the Board of PAL on:

Saturday, May 29th
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Collingwood Neighbourhood House,
Program Room, 2nd. Floor,
5288 Joyce St., Vancouver
(two blocks south of the Joyce Sky Train station)

Everyone is welcome, particularly Canadians with disabilities, their families and supporters.

Sincerely,

Paul Caune

Rsvp info….please forward to other interested folks etc….

[Peter Wong]

FYI

Will it take a child's death for you to listen?

http://www.richmond-news.com/health/Will+take+child+death+listen/3045186/story.html

[Nancy Walton]

Burnaby Parents:

I have been asked by a parent to meet with the Burnaby school board and admin to make a presentation about supporting ABA in their schools.

I would like to be in touch with any parents in the Burnaby district who would like to support such a presentation. You will not need to speak or do anything (unless you want to). I would appreciate input and feedback before the presentation.

Please contact Nancy at wiklo (at) shaw (dot) ca. Thanks

[Author]

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