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[Diane Slootweg]

This month's Mid Island ASBC Community Group Meeting will be held on:
Wednesday February 20, 2008 7-9pm
McGirr Elementary School Multi Purpose Room
6199 McGirr Road Nanaimo

Our guest this month is Gary Ruffle, Chartered Accountant. This will be an excellent opportunity to answer your questions regarding the disability tax credit, the medical expense credit, tax planning and the new Registered Disability Savings plan.

Please reply if you plan to attend so that we can make the proper arrangements regarding materials.

Sorry for any cross postings but I'm trying to reach all those who may be interested.

You may contact me at midisland.asbc@gmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you all.

Regards,

Diane Slootweg

[Amber Armstrong]

I just wanted to leave a quick note to thank everyone who recommended Dr. Delevie. He confirmed today what I have known for months. Its not not easy to hear. Today is a hard day and it better get easier.

Could use all the support I can get

amber 81 @ gmail .com

[Luke’s mama]

Hi all,

anyone have any good or bad feedback regards to Monarch Pediatric in Bby. We have cavities for Luke and cost is in thousand and over.

Please advise also if you have had services with BC Children's Hospital Dental Clinic and how it has been. Nervous because they sound like they are dental students. However if we can have Luke's teeth (4 cavities) done it would really ease our costs and we can put more money to his ABA therapy.

HOw long was the procedure and how long did it take for your child to wake up.

Is the list at Children's as horribly long as it is? My dentist said 8months and I called and they said booking consultations into April.

Please advise.
Thanks a bunch. A penny saved is a penny earned toward ABA Therapy .

Luke's mom

[Nicole Kaler]

Workshops for Line and Lead Therapists

Harmony House, a non-profit society, is excited to initiate its 2008 series of BASIC & ADVANCED training workshops:

The Line/Basic Training class will be on February 23rd

The Lead/Advanced Training workshop is an INTENSE 2-DAY event March 29 & 30th

For more information and registration: http://www.harmonyhouseBC.ca/training or call (604) 542-1550

These workshops are excellent opportunities for parents, educators, tutors and therapists who are interested in expanding their skills by learning more about ABA and how to effectively work with children with Autism.

[Theresa Jouan]

FEAT of BC Intermediate Workshop!

This event is taking place on Saturday, March 29th from 10am-4pm.

Cost: $35 per person

Location: Guildford Rec Center, Surrey, BC

Topics that will be covered:
– Task analysis
– Total task presentation
– Chaining
– Shaping
– ABA History
– Prompting Methods
– Reinforcement (including schedules of reinforcement and law of consequences)

Topic content has been altered to allow for additional group work time as the focus of the workshop will be the application of these theoretical constructs.

Individual feedback to attendees by presenters will also be provided.

Registration form to come. I will post again as soon as the registration form has been added to the FEAT website.

Hope to see you all there!

[Tyla Frewing]

Last minute reminder about the FEAT of BC Autism Behavioral Therapist Training Workshop tomorrow, February 9th at the University of Victoria!

We anticipate having space for walk-ins, so if you have not registered yet, but would like to attend, we will try to accomodate everyone.

Information about the workshop is available at: http://www.featbc.org/downloads/abtw.pdf

[Peter Wong]

Dear all,

Would you please share you experiences, positive or negative, about Richmond Pediatric Dental Group?

There are several specialists there.
Which one should I ask?

Thanks a lot.

Peter

v a n c o u v e r peter AT g m a i l DOT com

[Luke’s mama]

Please email me at abatherapy@live.com

Thx a lot
from Luke's mom

[Todd Dea]

Lukes mama,

You may want to include your e-mail address so those interested in doing so can contact you off board given that we are only supposed to chat about ABA (Lovaas exclusively) therapy here. Unfortunately diet and bio-med intervention discussions are a no-no on this forum.

We are doing what you are enquiring about (the combined approach) and would be more than happy to share our experience so for with you.

Todd
onedea@shaw.ca

[Luke’s mama]

Does anyone know about using casein free/gluten free diet, nutrional supplements combined with ABA? Any pros or cons? Would love to know your experience since our child has huge sensory issues so this will be difficult. Is it worth it to switch. Our child has huge gag reflex to food and textures, even smells of new food.

Thx for your input and post. It is important to know since the whole family is considering this diet together.

Luke's mama

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