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[Milburn Drysdale]

The Autism Funding in BC website (http://asdfunding.com)has now been up for one month and I thank you all for your kind feedback.
I will slowly be adding to the site as new topics come to mind. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear about them.
One topic I would like to address is independent schools. I have heard some comments for and against them, but I would like to know more about the issue. If you have any stories or tips for me, I would appreciate the input.
Cheers
Milburn Drysdale
http://asdfunding.com

[Super Dad]

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

Leaping Over Quicksand: common pitfalls in starting up, maintaining, and generalizing an ABA home program
by
Katie Allen, BCBA
on
December 16, 2008

We are very pleased to have Katie Allen from the ABLE Development Clinic as our guest speaker.

In this presentation, Katie will talk about:
* understanding what type of ABA program you're running;
* how to know what to expect from your involvement and outcomes, including common roadblocks;
* how data collection and functional analysis can help prevent some of the most common pitfalls;
* practicing true evidence-based intervention as opposed to just running ABA procedures.

DATE: Tuesday, December 16, 2008
TIME: 7 – 9 pm
LOCATION: West Vancouver Memorial Library (Peters Room), 1950 Marine Drive in West Van. (between 19th and 20th Streets).
The library is easily accessible via Highway #1 Upper Levels, taking either the 15th Street or 20th St. exits.

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

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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

[David Bridges]

HI Folks

Well it's that time of year again and Canada Revenue Agency has decided to celebrate by disallowing most of my ABA-related medical expense claims! Once again I am forced to get letters from doctors, etc to show that my son needs ABA, letters from CLBC about funding (or not), etc. On top of that, they've disallowed some claims based on flimsy stuff like the therapists' SIN numbers are not on their invoices, that I don't have an 'official' stamp saying "Paid in Full" on them, and other crap like that.
I tell you, it's enough to make one's head burst! And what makes it worse is that I went through all this last taxation year (2006).
I have spoken to Don Cayo, tax affairs columnist for the Vancouver Sun, and he would like to write a story on this but needs to hear from a few more people. SO if you have a taxation horror story to share, please do it here if you wish, but by all means go post it on his blog

http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/taxingissues/default.aspx

Maybe we can embarrass this government and its behemoth tax bureaucracy enough to stop treating us like criminals!

Sincerely,

David Bridges

[Super Dad]

*** REMINDER ***

North Shore ASBC Support Group Lecture Series – November 18 2008

This month we will talk about: Surviving the Marathon – enduring the hardship and collecting the rewards.

We are very pleased to have the following speakers:

1. Beverly Sharpe – Auton litigant and "Medicare for Autism Now" campaigner.
2. Robin Gelfer – Auton litigant and pioneer advocate.
3. Laurie Guerra – director of the ASBC, and parent of a child who is near recovery.

*** SPECIAL GUEST: Wesley Romey – Laurie Guerra's son, and living proof that autism can be defeated.

Our speakers will tell their stories of emotional and financial survival, and share their experience with long-term coping strategies.

DATE: Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008
TIME: 7 – 9 pm
LOCATION: West Vancouver Memorial Library (Peter J. Peters Room), 1950 Marine Drive in West Van. (between 19th and 20th Streets). The library is easily accessible via Highway #1 Upper Levels, taking either the 15th Street or 20th St. exits.

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

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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

[Super Dad]

North Shore ASBC Support Group Lecture Series – November 18 2008

This month we will talk about: Surviving the Marathon – enduring the hardship and collecting the rewards.

We are very pleased to have the following speakers:

1. Beverly Sharpe – Auton litigant and "Medicare for Autism Now" campaigner.
2. Robin Gelfer – Auton litigant and pioneer advocate.
3. Laurie Guerra – director of the ASBC, and parent of a child who is near recovery.

*** SPECIAL GUEST: Wesley Romey – Laurie Guerra's son, and living proof that autism can be defeated.

Our speakers will tell their stories of emotional and financial survival, and share their experience with long-term coping strategies.

DATE: Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008
TIME: 7 – 9 pm
LOCATION: West Vancouver Memorial Library (Peter J. Peters Room), 1950 Marine Drive in West Van. (between 19th and 20th Streets). The library is easily accessible via Highway #1 Upper Levels, taking either the 15th Street or 20th St. exits.

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

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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

[Milburn Drysdale]

The Autism Funding in BC website is now operational!
The site deals with such how-to topics as:
• Obtaining funding from the BC government
• How to claim ABA expenses on your tax return
• Federal government programs
• Setting up an ABA team
• Hiring consultants and therapists
• Team administration
• Where to start after receiving an autism diagnosis
• Public or private assessments
• Is there funding beyond the Autism Funds program?
• Therapists – Employee or self-employed contractors
• And many other topics

Many thanks to those people who gave me valuable input and advice along the way. I couldn’t have done it without your help.
Please pass along the link to anyone who may need the help.
Any feedback would be appreciated. My email is asdfunding@gmail.com
Thanks
Milburn Drysdale
http://asdfunding.com

[Kandi Kilgour]

DEBBIE SIMPSON/VIDULICH can you please call me again? I lost your numbers.

[Don Michael]

Has anyone got any recommendations for a speech pathologist? Somewhere centred around Main/Cambie at 12th or near would be swell. We have a daughter who's a little drooly and has low muscle tone and she could use work on breath control and stamina. Any suggestions at all are welcome; replies to michaelrohaly@gmail.com would be swell.

[Super Dad]

The National, CBC's flagship nightly newscast hosted by Peter Mansbridge, has proven itself completely worthless to anyone who has any respect for truth.

Here is the piece of garbage they have recently produced:

http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/special_feature/positively_autistic/

It is important to note that Michelle Dawson is a self-proclaimed "autistic" who has never had a formal diagnosis. A newspaper report has revealed that she has supposedly "self-diagnosed" herself. Much evidence suggests she is an opportunist who is seeking profit and attention by exploiting public ignorance about autism.

Temple Grandin, a real autistic who is NOT against ABA, says:

"The problem is, you talk to parents with a low-functioning kid, who've got a teenager who still goes to the bathroom in his pants and who's biting himself all the time. This guy destroys the house, and he's not typing, no matter what keyboards you make available. His life is miserable."

Why do people like Michelle Dawson never talk about how miserable these children get without treatment? That's because they want the fame and fortune of Temple Grandin but have nothing to contribute, so they resort to any method imaginable, often at the expense of truly disabled children.

Tony

[Tyla Frewing]

FEAT of BC Intermediate Autism Behavioral Therapist workshop in Nanaimo!

This workshop will take place the day after the introductory workshop, making it easy to attend both in one weekend!

When: 10:00am – 4:30 pm, November 16, 20008
Where: Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo
Topics covered will include:
o The role of the antecedent and establishing operations
o Implementation of effective reinforcement
o Assessment of preferences
o Effective implementation of token economies and response-cost systems
o Implementation of effective prompting and prompt-fading strategies.
o Teaching techniques including behavioural chaining and total task presentation.
o A detailed discussion of the analysis of data.

The Presenters:
The early autism intervention training workshop is conducted by two ABA Program Coordinators: Danielle Eeuwes, BA and Tyla Frewing, BA. The workshop leaders have a broad range of experience in the behavioural treatment of children with autism. Together their experience includes training numerous new therapists, overlapping and providing ongoing training for established teams, training and overlapping with school aides, worksing as school aides, designing individualized data collection methods, training and overlapping senior instructors as well as providing ongoing training for senior instructors, leading training workshops and developing individualized curriculum and behavior management protocol for students with autism under the direct supervision of Board-Certified Behavior Analysts.

Register early, as space is limited to 25 people!

The registration form is available at: http://www.featbc.org/downloads/ibtw.pdf

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