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North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

a presentation on
Occupational Therapy and ABA
Incorporating Occupational Therapy into a Behavioural Therapy Program

by
Jessica Fung, OTR/L

at
7:00pm, Tues Oct 19

in the
Cedar Room
in the North Building of the
Delbrook Recreation Centre

GUEST SPEAKER:
Jessica is a highly regarded Occupational Therapist who has previously worked for many years as a behaviour therapist. Due to her exceptional skills in both disciplines, she is considered by many to be the ideal Occupational Therapist for children in ABA programs.

TOPIC:
ABA is a highly effectively method for teaching skills to children with ASD, while Occupational Therapy covers highly important skills to be taught. While behaviour consultants have tried different ways of incorporating various therapies into ABA programs, in theory there is an ideal way. Our presenter will discuss the theory, as well as the realities of cooperation among the professionals and families involved.

The presentation will address the following:
1) What is OT? How can it be relevant to my child's overall development?
2) How is it incorporated into an existing or non-existing ABA, home-based program?
3) What are the key ingredients to successfully incorporating OT and ABA programs?
4) Other questions/comments from the audience!

DATE:
Tuesday, Tues Oct 19, 2010

TIME:
7 – 9 pm

LOCATION:
Cedar Room, in the North Building of the Delbrook Recreation Centre
600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=600+West+Queens+Road,+North+Vancouver,+British+Columbia

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)

[Barbara Rodrigues]

Way to go Mr. P!! That's so cool Dave.

[David Chan]

What's really cool is when you start something as a program and then the skill just shows up.

Here's the story, A few, or maybe three summers ago, we thought being half chinese, it would be kinda cool to teach using Chop-sticks, not a big deal, not a deal breaker if he mastered it or not, kind of a filler activity.

Well, we worked with small erasers cut up, in any event, after a while, lots of stuff came up, there was more important stuff came up, school started, he'd use them off and on no biggie.

Last nite, we had dinner with my parents, and out of the blue, he got his usual knife and fork, sure enough, in a chinese resturrant that makes u stand out. As it were, we started eating, well, he decide, no prompting from anyone to pick up his food with Chopsticks, and voila, away he went.

It starts with teaching a skill, generalizing skill, and using it, the whole enchilada.

Thanks for throwing us a bone big guy

Mr. P's Dad

[Sharon Shi]

sorry, fotgot my email sliwen@hotmail.com thanks!

[Sharon Shi]

Dara Shore – Speech Language Pathologist in Langley.
Anyone could give some suggestion on her and her assistant?
Many thanks…

[Stella Li]

You are invited to join our next ASBC Burnaby Community Group meeting.

Date: October 15, 2010 (Friday)

Time: 10am-12noon

Place: Autism Society of BC

#303 – 3701 East Hastings Street, Burnaby

(NE corner of Hastings and Boundary, walk up one flight of stairs from street level to 3/F, parking on Hastings/the back streets/west side of Boundary)

We are pleased to have behavior consultant Bohdanna Popowycz Kvam from Harmony House to present on “Back to School: How to Make it a Successful Experience”. Parents Annie Tusek, Lindy Chau and Stella Hui will share their experience in public school (two school districts) and independent school from kindergarten to high school years. Space is limited – RSVP early to secure your seat! We plan to start on time so please come a few minutes before 10am.

A presentation on:
Back to School:
How to Make it a Successful Experience
by
Bohdanna Popowycz Kvam, M.Ed.

Executive Director and Behavior Consultant
Harmony House

GUEST SPEAKER:
Bohdanna Popowycz Kvam has been involved with children with autism for more than two decades. Bohdanna’s background includes teaching in the public school system in the United States as well as working as the Clinical Director for one of Dr. Lovaas’ replication sites. Bohdanna prides herself on working with families to advocate for their children’s individual needs both in the home and school settings. She has traveled around the world opening Lovaas replication clinics in the UK, USA and Canada. Bohdanna graduated from UBC with a Masters in Special Education/Counseling and Psychology with emphasis in autism. As the executive director, Bohdanna is responsible for overseeing the preschool and day to day running of Harmony House. She continues to hold a small case load of children (preschool to high school age) with autism who seek services from Harmony House and provides monthly supervision to staff. She lives in Surrey with her husband and three children age 8-18.

TOPIC:
Realistic IEP, Parent’s roles (with and without aides that they brought in), Setting up communication/data: What are you looking to find out, Proactive teaching strategies, Simple baseline data.

Parents Annie, Lindy and Stella will share their stories and experience of how to make it work in public school and independent school. Their children are currently in elementary school and high school.

Coffee/tea/refreshments will be provided.

Space is Limited. Please RSVP to shui@autismbc.ca before October 12th, and pass this email to parents who may be interested to attend.

I look forward to seeing you on October 15th.

Stella Hui

Autism Society of BC

#303 – 3701 East Hastings

Burnaby BC V5C 2HS

604 434 0880

[Nicole Berg]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for an accountant that has knowledge or experience with disability stuff for doing our taxes, etc. We need every penny we can get to finance our home ABA program.

I hope to find someone in the Langley or Surrey area. If you have any suggestions or recommendations please let me know by email: mikeandnicki@shaw.ca

Thanks in advance!
Nicole

[Stella Li]

Richmond ASBC Parents Group Meeting

The Richmond ASBC Parents Group proudly presents:

ABA in the School Setting…What it Can Look Like

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

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.

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: Monday, October 4, 2010
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Tyee room at Steveston Community Centre – 4111 Moncton Street, Richmond

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

Please RSVP to Paul at richmond.asbc@gmail.com, so we can prepare for handouts.

Paul
(facilitator for ASBC Richmond Group)

[Christine Bateman]

Hi Stacey:

Just to add to the previous posts about triggers… Our 3 year old son will periodically have similiar reactions to the fan above the stove and the microwave. Most times it's fine but every once and while he cannot tolerate their sounds and has a meltdown. Possibly not what triggered your son's reaction but thought I would mention it just in case. I hope it all works out for you.

Chris

[Joanna Ng]

Hi Stacey,
I truly understand how you feel.

My preschooler cried and wouldn't want to go to his preschool last October. When I saw the class, I knew instantly. It was Halloween.The decor was too much for our little one.

On another occassion, it's about our CD player. He used to love listening to his toddler songs. Until one day, he simply screamed and cried and would not let us turn on the CD player. I took it away [my first mistake] and until today, it is banned.And I could not figure out what went wrong.

Although it's been for a week, probably if you can't figure out what triggered his fear – we can at least comfort him and reassure him you're there with him in the living room/kitchen. And like ABA programs, be with him in the living room for a short time, play his favorite toy…and then slowly lenghten the time you spent in the living room.

My mistake regarding the CD player [still banned] has reminded me that even when he cried over something, I'd just ignore and walk away. Pay no attention to his cries. The more attention I present [positive or negative, the more he reacts to it].

Of course, it might sound cold, but I would ignore his closing his eyes [so long as he's not hurting himself] and be with him in the feared places. Do activities that he really likes together and pretend he does not have behaviors [closing eyes]…and maybe he will be more relaxed.And yes, he's only 3. He needs lots of hugs and cuddles.^V^

On top of that, what did your consultant say?

Was it the sound of blender/ventilator in the kitchen? Or was he bitten by bugs, etc?

Hope he's better now.

No matter what you're trying, please know that we're all here for you and for each other.

Sweet dreams.

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