[FEAT BC Admin]

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[Deleted User]

We are looking for the 'Picture This' CD ROM for our child's program. We are aware that Different Roads to Learning has this item for sale, but are wondering if another family could provide us with information on obtaining this for a cheaper price than $90 US.
If anyone has any information, please contact Shirley at: rshewko@shaw.ca

Thank you so much!

[Diane T]

FEAT of BC is sponsoring a training workshop on the basics of Lovaas-protocol ABA.

It is planned that this workshop will be held in Nanoose Bay, about a ten minute drive north of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island.

The workshop will include general information on autism and behavioural theory but will focus primarily on the practical aspects of delivering effective behavioural autism treatment.

DATE: July 19, 2003
TIME: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
COST: $25.00

The workshop will be presented by Senior Instructors Theresa Tournemille and Michelle Karren.

More information and registration details will be posted within several days. In the meantime mark your calendars. . . .

[FEAT BC Admin]

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[Mike & Jean]

FEAT Meeting – June 16th 2003

Hi Everyone.

Just a reminder – the next FEAT Meeting is on Monday, June 16th at St. Francis in the Wood Anglican church in West Van (map downloadable from the FEAT web-site).

The meeting will start at 7:30pm and go to 9:00pm.

The topic is: I.E.P's (and school related issues)

This is a 'parent' meeting only.

Thank you – see you on Monday

Jean Lewis

[Deleted User]

I have read the posts on "What is EIBI?". I want to add a little information.

I have just moved here from Nova Scotia in order to obtain the medically necessary treatment that my 8 year-old daughter with Autism needs. In Nova Scotia there are simply no Consultants with any experience let alone expertise.

In Nova Scotia I commenced a law suit against the Nova Scotia goverment and the Halifax Regional School Board, and the local Children's Hospital, Hospital Psychologist and Peadeatrition.

In the law suit I refered to the medically necessary treatment that my daughter was denied as EIBI, or Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention. When Cross-Examining the Peadeatrition, she testify that EIBI was one and the same as Lovaas Therapy.

While I copied my Statement of Claim almost exactly from the Auton case, I did not want to use the term Lovaas Treatment. Nevertheless the Defendant's took EIBI to mean Lovaas.

In BC the government has now called their "Program" EIBI.

While Lovaas Treatment is in fact one form of EIBI, the BC government has given the term EIBI a bad name here in BC. In many parts of the states as well as eastern Canada, EIBI has a "Good Name" not having been associated with an unpopular government program.

It would be more accurate to say that EIBI is Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention, a well respected form of therapy for autism accross most of North Amercia, except in BC where the government tried to give credibility to themselves by using that name for a program that does not use properly trained Consultants, (their "friends" as some of you have referred to them.

It is not the term EIBI, or Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention that should have the bad name (as it does amoung the FEAT parents here in BC), but the specific improper use by the BC government of a widely accepted term in the scientic community throughtout most of the US and eastern Canada. There is nothing Early about a government program where the child is older than 2 years when they commence a program. THere is nothing intensive about a program that provides insufficient funds to "be intensive". Whatever behavioural intervention given by these government consultants will be no better than the level of skills (or lack there of) on the part of the consultants.

That does not make the term EIBI wrong or inherently bad, it simply means that the BC government program which is using the name EIBI for its program is only as good or bad as the consultants involved. While the Feat parents strongly believe that the BC EIBI program is seriously lacking, and while I have little first hand knowledge of the BC EIBI program,(we did not move here for a government program) I stand by my decision to use the term EIBI in my Nova Scotia litigation, as it is a widely accepted term accross North Amercia, with properly trained Consultants and is often used interchangably with the term ABA, and according to at least one Nova Scotia Peadeatrition, (defending herself in my lawsuit) it is the same thing as Lovaas Treatment.)

A better to the question "What is EIBI?" would be, EIBI means one thing in much of the autism scientific community accross the US and eastern Canada, and something else for the BC government program.

[Deleted User]

Remember also that the EIBI program was set up by
government and funneled to "friends" of government. My
personal advice is that you have some chats with some of
the reputable ABA consultant operations before betting
your child's best outcome on the EIBI folks.

[Deleted User]

Remember also that the EIBI program was set up by
government and funneled to "friends" of government. My
personal advice is that you have some chats with some of
the reputable ABA consultant operations before betting
your child's best outcome on the EIBI folks.

[Deleted User]

The only downside is that if you are really interested in having them do discrete trials you may have to fight for it a bit( and there are only a few AI's with experience and training in discrete trials ). They want to have a well rounded program involving many facets such as group play etc.. and they don't really want to be doing solely discrete trials.

[Deleted User]

The only downside is that if you are really interested in having them do discrete trials you may have to fight for it a bit( and there are only a few AI's with experience and training in discrete trials ). They want to have a well rounded program involving many facets such as group play etc.. and they don't really want to be doing solely discrete trials.

[Deleted User]

Thanx for the info about EIBI, are there any downsides to this form of ABA therapy?

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