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[Milburn Drysdale]

Worksafe assessed us as being in the "Counseling or Social Services Classification (Autism Counseling)(766007)" which is $0.60 per $100 of assessable payroll.
Each case is viewed independently. Remember that WCB can be claimed from Autism Funds.
Depending on the details of your case you may not need coverage. As our child went into the school system and his hours were cut back, WCB reassessed us and decided we didn't need coverage.

[Nancy Walton]

Regarding Worksafe BC :

Mine says "Hiring or Providing Domestic Childcare" and the rate is .64% of the gross payroll.

[Brandie Hadley]

Does anyone know what classification a home-based ABA therapy program falls under when registering with WCB (BC)? I am just trying to look into rates.

Thanks!!

[Joanna Ng]

Welcome to Holland
by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this…

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip – to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michaelangelo David. The Gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and say, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?", you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there has been a change in flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would have never met. It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy… and they're bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never,ever, ever, ever go away… because the loss of that dream is a very, very significant loss.

But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the lovely things…about Holland.

[Super Dad]

REMINDER

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

a presentation on
Maltreatment Prevention

by
Sara White, PhD, BCBA-D
Registered Psychologist
Behaviour Consultant

at
7:00pm, Tues Mar 16

in the
Delbrook Recreation Centre
Oak Room in the South Building (not North Building)

GUEST SPEAKER:
Sara completed her master's degree in applied behavior analysis at the University of the Pacific (2000) and doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Binghamton University (2005). She has worked at the Institute for Child Development under the direction of Dr. Raymond Romanczyk. Additionally, she has presented several posters and papers at the Association for Behavior Analysis, the California Association for Behavior Analysis, the New York Association for Behavior Analysis and the British Columbia Association for Behavior Analysis on topics ranging from interventions to improve employee motivation to techniques to improve acquisition rates in children with autism. She has also presented several workshops on behavior management techniques to parents, school personnel, and health care professionals. She is currently a private behavioral consultant working with children of all ages with autism spectrum disorders.

TOPIC:
Children with developmental disabilities are at particularly high risk of becoming the victim of physical or sexual abuse. The maltreatment may come from peers, caretakers, educators and anyone else with whom the children have contact in private. This presentation will discuss risk factors, warning signs and ways to minimize the risk.

DATE:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

TIME:
7 – 9 pm

LOCATION:
Oak Room, in the South Building of the Delbrook Recreation Centre
(600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

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)

[Super Dad]

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

a presentation on
Maltreatment Prevention

by
Sara White, PhD, BCBA-D
Registered Psychologist
Behaviour Consultant

at
7:00pm, Tues Mar 16

in the
Delbrook Recreation Centre
(South Building, not North Building)

GUEST SPEAKER:
Sara completed her master’s degree in applied behavior analysis at the University of the Pacific (2000) and doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Binghamton University (2005). She has worked at the Institute for Child Development under the direction of Dr. Raymond Romanczyk. Additionally, she has presented several posters and papers at the Association for Behavior Analysis, the California Association for Behavior Analysis, the New York Association for Behavior Analysis and the British Columbia Association for Behavior Analysis on topics ranging from interventions to improve employee motivation to techniques to improve acquisition rates in children with autism. She has also presented several workshops on behavior management techniques to parents, school personnel, and health care professionals. She is currently a private behavioral consultant working with children of all ages with autism spectrum disorders.

TOPIC:
Children with developmental disabilities are at particularly high risk of becoming the victim of physical or sexual abuse. The maltreatment may come from peers, caretakers, educators and anyone else with whom the children have contact in private. This presentation will discuss risk factors, warning signs and ways to minimize the risk.

DATE:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

TIME:
7 – 9 pm

LOCATION:
Oak Room, in the South Building of the Delbrook Recreation Centre
(600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

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)

[Joanna Ng]

Hi Brad, Roxanne.

Unlike your case, I have to deal with my 4 year old who likes to sleep till 8am or more but wouldn't sleep till 11 at night. How's that? Many a times, we, the parents are yawning again and again and here's our toddler… singing at 11pm on his bed even when the lights are off.

Sleep issues have always been a part of our lives. If your kid tucks into bed as early as 7 or 8pm, of course they'll wake up early. They get hungry too, since their little tummy is waking them up.

Likewise, is there something you can do with his bedroom? Like, is it too bright? [Summer is coming and my kid used to wake up early due to the sunlight].

I have friends who bring the kids swimming and shared that their kids do sleep better.

Good luck.

[Brad & Roxanne Black]

Good morning!! Been up for hours!!!

Does anyone have any good ideas for keeping your child in bed in the mornings!!!
My 7 year old gets up every morning at 6:00, anyone had any success with getting them to sleep later? School days are fine, he ends up waking the whole house, I would like to have a summer where I am not up with the birds ;-) I don't want to have to lock him in his room!!!!
All feedback welcomed!
bradrox@shaw.ca

[Darlene Joseph]

Not sure if this info was posted or not but we went to see the movie called DEAR JOHN, surprisingly we thought we were going to be watching only a romance movie but yet to discover Autism was a big theme in the movie.
The movie made me think how each and every one of us has a purpose in each others lives.

DAR

[Peggy Li]

my son just get diagnosed as Autism. he is 3.
Everything is really new to me. I am so headache about hiring Behaviour Consultant(BC) and BI.
there are 2 kinds of BC, one is they can help you find BI,but they left not much funding money for BI, the other is they not take care of BI part, i have to find by myself, but they left more finding for BI.
Is that mean we have to pay too much from our own pocket? and is BI really hard to find? which kind of BC i should hire?
Please email me give me some suggestion. thank you so much.
jiashu_99@yahoo.com

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