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[Tyla Frewing]

FEAT of BC Introductory Autism Behavioral Therapist workshop in Nanaimo!

Please note: See the next posting for information about the Intermediate workshop to be held on November 16.

When: 10:00am – 4:30 pm, November 15, 20008
Where: Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo
Topics covered will include:
oThe core elements of discrete trial instruction
oThe importance of and key issues in using reinforcement
oWhen and how to prompt
oThe process of teaching from introduction to mastery
oIssues of professionalism and confidentiality
oThe process of accurate data collection.

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/abtw.pdf

[Milburn Drysdale]

Attention all you financially savvy people.
I've been constructing a website which details everything that parents need to know about money and financing an ABA program.
It covers everything from:
• BC Government funding
• Federal Income tax and disability benefits
• Estate Planning
• Child Care Development Centres
• How to set up an ABA team
• How to deal with all the paperwork
• School issues
• And many other issues dealing with money
It’s just about ready to go, but I need to have some parents who have been at this for a few years and consider themselves financially astute, fact check the website for me.
If there are any volunteers, could you please email me at asdfunding@gmail.com and I will send you the URL.
Thanks in advance
Milburn Drysdale

[Theresa Jouan]

The ABLE Developmental Clinic, INC
And The
Jonathan Gelfer Society ABA Teaching Home
Present a course in:
SAFE MANAGEMENT of DISRUPTIVE AND ASSULTIVE BEHAVIOR

A Practical Program for Parents Focusing on the Safe Management of Disruptive and Assaultive Behavior. This program is designed for professionals and staff who deal with assaultive and / or crisis situations on a regular basis. It teaches prevention, de-escalation as well as non violent physical crisis intervention. In this instance, it is being offered for parents of children with strong behavior excesses (self injury and aggression) who are associated with FEATBC and ABLE Developmental Clinic. Although the nature of the course is not ABA it is being presented for it’s value in principles related to non violent physical intervention and the management of crisis situations. Parents of ASD children are often placed in crisis situations as a result of their children’s diagnoses. This program is *not a behavior program or behavior reduction intervention*, but rather a training process for those instances when children are in crisis, safety is compromised (theirs and/or yours) and safe physical intervention is required. Individuals who attend and successfully complete this course will be receiving credit from the Crisis Prevention Institute for their attendance.

The course will cover the following areas:
1. Crisis Development (Theory)
2. Non Verbal Behavior (Theory)
3. Paraverbal Communication (Theory)
4. Verbal Intervention (Theory)
5. Precipitating Factors, Rational Detachment, and Integrated Experiences (Theory)
6. Staff Fear and Anxiety(Theory)
7. PERSONAL safety techniques (Practical Application and Training)
8. Non Violent Physical Crisis Intervention (Practical Application and Training)

This course is being presented by two highly qualified teachers from the field of ABA who are also Certified Non Violent Physical Crisis Intervention Instructors associated with ABLE Developmental Clinic and ABA Teaching homes.

Theresa Tournemille, Masters of Science Candidate
Clinical Supervisor, Senior Overlap Instructor, Program Coordinator, Certified CPI Instructor.

Ms. Tournemille is a Clinical Supervisor and holds a Bachelors Degree from U.F.V. in Psychology. She is currently working on a Masters of Science in Applied Behaviour Analysis to achieve the goal of becoming a Board Certified Behavioral Consultant. In her over 8 years of experience, Theresa has worked with clients who are: both verbal and non verbal; beginning, intermediate and advanced learners; children with various difficult behaviour profiles. Her areas of interest include: systematic data collection, logbook organization and protocol,
comprehensive yet highly efficient initial and ongoing training of team members, as well as effective team management. She is especially interested in the area of team training, particularly the implementation of the Keller’s Personalized System of Instruction, parent training and data collection. She is passionate about improving the quality and consistency of therapy delivery through effective teams. Ms. Tournemille has had the opportunity to work with over 20 clients, ranging in age from 21 months to 19 years of age and work under 18 different consultants, including Dr. Richard Foxx, Dr. Michael Cataldo and Dr. Sara White.

Nate Searle, M.S.
Behavior Consultant, Clinical Supervisor, Certified CPI Instructor

Mr. Searle is a Behavior Consultant for ABLE Developmental Clinic Inc, a Registered Autism Service Provider and a Clinical Supervisor. Mr. Searle holds a Masters of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis from St. Cloud State University. He is currently working to achieve the goal of becoming a Board Certified Behavioral Analyst. Nate has 8 years of experience, and has worked with clients who are verbal and non verbal; beginning, intermediate and advanced learners; and children with various difficult behaviour profiles. Throughout his career Nate has worked in home based, school and residential settings holding the titles of Behavior Analyst, Clinical Supervisor, School based Instructor, and Senior Behavior Instructor. He has had the opportunity to work with more than 15 clients, ranging in age from 2 years to 18 years of age and work under a dozen different consultants, including Dr. Richard Foxx and Dr. Michael Cataldo. His research areas of interest include staff performance training, data collection systems, behavior and functional analysis.

Details
Venue: Burnett Fellowship
639-123rd Ave, Maple Ridge, BC
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008
Time: 8:30am to 5:30 pm
Lunch: 1 hour break (Lunch will not be provided)
Seating: Limited to first 40 registrants
Cost: While the course itself does not require any payment, we do require that individuals pre-register, cover the cost of their own materials (one workbook for $13.50) and participate in the cost of using the training venue ($5.00). Cost for course materials and training venue costs are the responsibility of each attendee.

Pre-register by filling out the registration form below and faxing to:
604.504.2823
or emailing to:
abahome@gmail.com
or mailing to:
Theresa Tournemille
35362 Firdale Ave
Abbotsford, BC
V3G 3A7

Please note: A confirmatory email will be sent once registration has been completed.

Directions:
Please refer to the following map:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=20639+-+123rd+Ave.+Maple+Ridge,+BC&sll=49.224549,-122.605705&sspn=0.100452,0.186424&ie=UTF8&ll=49.227716,-122.649307&spn=0.012556,0.023303&z=15&iwloc=addr&om=1

From West Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows:
Travel East on Lougheed Hwy.
Turn Left on 203rd St.
Turn Right on 123rd Ave.
The Church will be on your Left hand side.
From Central Maple Ridge & East:
Travel West on Lougheed Hwy.
Turn Right on Laity St.
Turn Left on 123rd Ave.
The Church will be on your Right hand side.

Safe Management of Disruptive and Assaultive Behavior Workshop – Registration Form
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
8:30-5:30 pm

Name: _______________________________________
Phone: ( ) ________________ e-mail: __________________________
Address: ______________________________
______________________________
______________________________

I am enclosing:

 Cheque for $18.50 (made out to Theresa Tournemille)
 I will pay via cash or cheque in person before the workshop.

Please send completed registration form along with payment to:

Theresa Tournemille
35362 Firdale Ave
Abbotsford, BC
V3G 3A7

OR Fax completed form to:
604.504.2823

OR email completed form to:
abahome@gmail.com

[Super Dad]

North Shore ASBC Support Group Lecture Series

** Tues Oct 21 **

Our October presentation will be: Aspergers and Anxiety – what every family wants their teacher to know.

We are pleased to have Dr. Todd Mason from the ABLE Development Clinic as our guest speaker. Dr. Mason is an clinical psychologist with amazing insight.

This lecture is useful to all parents of children on the spectrum. Many of the concepts are applicable to all.

This is a great opportunity for anyone with a school-aged child, or with a child coming up to school age. A clinical psychologist of this calibre is rare, so don't miss this lecture!

DATE: Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008
TIME: 7 – 9 pm
LOCATION: West Vancouver Memorial Library (Musto 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)

[Peter Wong]

Hi All,

Special Olympics BC Richmond will have an open house this Saturday for Active Start & FUNdamentals Programs.

Active Start is for 2-6 years old kids and FUNdamentals is for 7-10 years old kids.

I was told that other cities have similar programs.

Date: Saturday, October 18, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Where: Blundell Elementary School Gym, 6480 Blundell Road, Richmond

More info on the links:
http://www.sobcrichmond.com/programs-1/active-start
http://www.sobcrichmond.com/programs-1/fundamentals

Cheers.

Peter

[Diane Slootweg]

A reminder:

The Mid Island ASBC Community Group October Meeting will be held Wednesday October 15th at the Oliver Woods Community Centre, 6000 Oliver Road, Nanaimo BC
Please note our meeting for this evening only will begin at 7:15pm

This month we are pleased to welcome Geri Sera of the Nanaimo Unique Kids Organization (NUKO)who will present on the results of their recent survey. The purpose of the survey was to determine the level of services available for the neuro-developmentally disabled population residing in the Mid Island region.

RSVP to midisland.asbc@gmail.com if you are planning to attend.

Regards,

Diane Slootweg

[Louise Taylor]

In tomorrow's election, VOTE FOR AUTISM TREATMENT UNDER MEDICARE!

It is clear that a Harper Conservative government will do little to help our chldren recieve ABA treatment under our so-called universal healthcare system. To find out how to make your vote count on October 14th, click on the "Medicare for Autism Now" webiste and to to the "News" section to view the ads that ran coast-to-coast naming which candidates will support Medicare for Autism Now!

http://www.medicareforautismnow.org

For additional details on how to make your vote count, you can also refer to parent activist, Harold Doherty's blog, "Facing Autism in New Brunswick"; http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/

Make your vote a strategic one and vote "Yes" to "Medicare for Autism Now"!!!!!

[J.Graham]

For joining yahoo groups:
Go to http://www.yahoogroups.com and get set up. You will only have to do this once. Then you can join any group. For autism groups type in autism, and all the groups will come up including BiomedicalTreatmentforASDinBC.
Then pick one and join.
Also, remember that after you join a yahoo group, click onto files and links in the groups left corner and you will find a wealth of information there. I would suggest just spending time reading the posts and files.
Also, some of these groups have a lot of “traffic” so when you join a group make sure you click on NO EMAIL so that you can go to the group and read the latest posts rather than have them sent to you (and fill up your mailbox).
Others such as BiomedicalTreatmentforASDinBC are not high traffic so setting that group to DIGEST or EMAIL would be fine.

If you need any more info you can email me at magnolias@telus.net

Jen

[Stephanie Spence]

Hi there,
I have some questions about vaccines as well and I tried to send an email to that address Jen but it didn't allow me to access it because I am not a member of yahoo. Can you email me please ?
my email is gsspence@shaw.ca

thanks,
Stephanie

[Dione Costanzo]

Global TV reports on the Medicare for Autism Now! Rally yesterday in Surrey, BC:

http://canwest.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/canwest-globalbc-pub01-live/current/launch.html?maven_playerId=globalbcallvideo&maven_referralPlaylistId=eb9546f3bbe128d5325e599a10a32816ec4f54ca&maven_referralObject=3132103

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