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In this topic area, discussion is on all issues relating to setting up and running a home-based intervention program. Please feel free to bring up any problems or suggestions. Parents can help each other greatly by sharing information and giving suggestions.

In addition to parents helping parents, A.B.A. professionals on in the Discussion Group can also help provide insight and guidance.

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[Lisa Castle]

We are getting prepared to start up our ABA program in June, when our wonderful Consultant, Liana, returns to the Lower Mainland. I'm very excited!

Liana has recommended we get a Closed-Circuit TV system for recording and monitoring therapy sessions. If anyone can provide any suggestions in terms of a source to purchase such a system (particularly near the White Rock / South Surrey area), what I should be looking for, etc., I would appreciate hearing from you, as I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this type of technology.

Also, I'm wondering if anyone has any therapist agreements, or other helpful documents that might be useful to someone in my position. I've already received one from a member, and it was very helpful. You can e-mail me at mummyx2@hotmail.com .

Thanks in advance!

Lisa

[Mehdi Hassanzadeh]

Help!!!!

Our son was just diagnosed and we are new to this whole thing. There is overwhelming amount of information out there and we are trying to get a hold of things while we are also emotionally dealing with this ordeal. Our son is 21 months old. I have been looking into Lovaas program on internet and it sounds promising and also expensive. I know that we need a consultant to start with but I also understand it's very difficult to find one that is available. I know every body works with a consultant and was wondering if you could recommend anybody and also ask your consultant if s/he takes new patients and let us know. We live in West Vancouver area and would like to start the treatment in June.
We welcome any advice that you think would help us with our new diagnosis.

Please respond to persianvet@hotmail.com

We look forward to hearing from you.

Mehdi & Roya

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Face Reader Bridges Autism Gap

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,70655-0.html?tw=rss.technology#

By Eric Smalley| Also by this reporter?02:00 AM Apr, 14, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — You are a mind reader, whether you know it or not. You can tell just by looking at a human face whether the person is concentrating, confused, interested or in agreement with you.
But people afflicted by autism lack this ability to ascertain emotional status — it's one of the signature characteristics of the disease. Help could be on the way for autistic individuals, though: A novel computer-vision system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could do the mind reading for those who can't.
Two MIT researchers wore tiny cameras mounted on wire rods extending from their chests to demonstrate the Emotional Social Intelligence Prosthetic, or ESP, at the Body Sensor Networks 2006 international workshop at MIT's Media Lab last week. The video cameras captured facial expressions and head movements, then fed the information to a desktop computer that analyzed the data and gave real-time estimates of the individuals' mental states, in the form of color-coded graphs…..

[Sandra Christison]

We are looking for fellow families with autistic kids for social outings over the summer. We join Kidsworld. Kidsworldprogram.com. They have a different outing everyday of the summer all over the lower mainland. its cheap too! $35 for one child and one adult for the whole summer! We have two boys, ages 11 & 7. checkout their website or email me at sanc@shaw.ca.

[Kandi Kilgour]

It is with a huge grin and lots of jumping up and down that I am able to announce that Michele Fagan, formerly of ABC Canada Consulting is coming back to B.C.!!!!

She has formally applied to be on the ACT list this morning and pending approval is taking on clients.

She is starting her own consultant company and will be in town for the last week of April and the first week of May.

If you wish to schedule a workshop please contact Kandi Kilgour at 604-607-0701 or kandikilgour@telus.net in B.C. or Michele directly at 1-908-879-7502 or mlfages@yahoo.com in New Jersey

First priority for workshops are families that she has worked with before and after than SHE IS ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS.

New clients will be placed on a waitlist, and pending response from this trip, she will evaluate how quickly she comes out again. If you wish to place your name on the waitlist you will need to provide her with a videotape of your child and we will get back to you with a date of the workshop.

Thanks and have a nice day

Kandi Kilgour

[Dorothy Ray]

Hi Jenny. Your post was very moving and made me think about my own 7 year old ASD son. He also became aware of his diagnosis this past year and seems to have taken it in stride. I would very much like to speak with you if you don't mind. My email is roganddot@shaw.ca and my phone# is (604)583-4385.

Thanks Jenny. I hope to hear from you.

Sincerely, Dorothy

[Lisa Castle]

Jenny,
We are just beginning our almost 3-year-old son's ABA program. Thank you for sharing your son's words with us. What a beautiful story. How proud you must feel!
Lisa

[Barbara Rodrigues]

Jenny:

What a absolutely beautiful story. Thank you so much for sharing. I have tears literally streaming down my face. What a truely special little boy you have.

Barbara Rodrigues
Jeremy's Mom

[Jenny Obando]

I forgot to mention my son is seven years old.

Cheers.

[Jenny Obando]

I wanted to share this little conversation I had with my son. My son was in an ABA program for 4 years and has achieved a best outcome. I wanted to slowly introduce him to his diagnosis. We have been talking about what autism is, I told him that people born with autism needed help to learn, so that they needed teachers to come to their homes or school to teach them. He said like my friend in class, I said yes. (There is another child with autism in my son’s class). Sorry it is long! Here is how the bedtime conversation went:

Mom: how was school
Mr T: good
Mom: I was at work; do you know where I work?
Mr T: Yes, at two kids’ houses. (I just started working as a therapist)
Mom: Yes, do you know why.
Mr T: Because they have autism?
Mom: Yes, do you remember what autism is ?
Mr T: Yes, when you need help learning.
Mom: right, do you know anyone with autism?
Mr T: yes ______(classmate’s name)
Mom: do you know any else with autism?
Mr T : nop
Mom: do you remember when you had teachers that came to help you ?
Mr T: yes,
Mom: do you know why they came?
Mr T: because I had autism?
Mom: Yes
Mr T: Does everyone have autism?
Mom: Nop
Mr. T: do many of your friends’ kids have autism?
Mom: yes
Mr. T: that is strange
Mom: what is strange?
Mr T: If I had autism and many of your friend’s kids have autism, I guess we are like an autism family.
Mom: (with tears in my eyes) YES we are!
Mom: so you don’t need your teachers to come any more.
Mr. T: I miss them; can we have them over? , Can we invite everyone who helped me with my autism over for a BBQ?
Mom: (tears in my eyes) Of course!
Mom: I love you!
Mr T: Love you mom.
Mom : ( still with tears in my eyes) I am really, really, really, proud of you !
Mr T: Ah Ah OK!
Mom: (Big smile on my face)

Jenny Obando

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