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This topic is for Surrey parents and is off topic of ABA.

What is the program difference between project Good Start and the Start program? I know the Start program is for children in Surrey from grade one til grade 12.

Thank you in advance!

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Greetings –

On Monday March 24; 7-9pm in the Peter J. Peters Room at the West Van Library the ASBC North Shore Group Lecture Series presents Sports + Athletics: Why It's Important + How to Involve Kids Successfully.

Keynote Speakers Susan Strong, B.Sc. PT + Catherine Yoell,B.Sc. PT, physiotherapists from the Centre for Ability, will explore age-appropriate gross and fine motor developmental time-lines – what skills, when, introduced in what order and why; ASD and gross motor ability – what to watch for, what to develop, questions to ask your PT/OT; Linkages to gross motor ability + cognitive development; and social aspects of physical ability and positive peer interaction.

Parent Presenters Jean Lewis and Mike Leger will share 2 Case Studies: Learning How to Ride a Bike and Playing Minor Hockey. Each will demonstrate how specific skills were targeted, mastered and show what the learning outcomes are for each child as well as how they overcame the various challenges presented along the way.

So, come prepared to learn and play – all are welcome. Sure hope you can join us!

Tamara
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Remaining North Shore Lectures & Dates

Monday March 24; 7-9pm; Peter J. Peters Room, West Van Library: free
Sports + Athletics: Why it's Important + How to Involve Kids Successfully

Monday April 14; 7-9 pm; Peter J. Peters Room, West Van Library: by donation
Awesome Peer Play + Successful Video Modeling: What Is It and How To Do It!

Monday May 12; 7-9 pm; Peter J. Peters Room, West Van Library: by donation
School Panel Discussion: Writing Hardcore IEPs and School Treatment Plans=>
What Should Be In It; Effectively Managing the Home/School Relationship;
How to Take Data/Track ABC Charts at School; How to Find a Great School
Shadow; and Know Your Child's Legal Rights!

Monday June 23; 7-9 pm; Peter J. Peters Room, West Van Library: free
Theory of Mind + Mindblindness: What is it, What Does It Mean, Why Is It
Important + How to Develop it.

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Teach Me Language
We purchased this program a few months ago and it is worth every penny and more. I recommend that you check it out at http://www.skfbooks.com if you have a child with emerging language in an ABA program or even if you don't have an ABA program but your child is language challenged. We also bought the practice sheets which weren't expensive and have saved us many hours of prep time. What we like most about it is not that it tells you how to teach language concepts effectively but also why.

Thanks SKF!

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Hello all,

I had a brief conversation with my local MCF contact today about some specific questions I had on IEII elgibility and I wanted to pass on this information to everyone.

1) For all those parents who have children turning 6 this year, you will only get funding until the month your child turns 6, not until the end of the fiscal year as was the previous policy. Hey happy birthday Junior. Now that you are 6, you can't be treated and we don't care what your doctor says.

2) If you have any IEII funding left over, you can extend your contract to give you time to spend those funds. This applies to children who are still eligible and are renewing IEII and to those whose children have become magically cured by reaching the age of six and are no longer eligible.

3) The new school age non-funding package is call EAI (Early Autism something-or-other). Getting this funding will not effect your eligibility for other services which you may already be getting (respite etc.). Apparently some parents have been told this and it is wrong.

4) The paperwork for EAI will not be available until April 1. April fools day, how ironic

Cheers everyone
Justin Himmelright

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For those interested…

Dr. Richard M. Foxx will be giving a presentation in Vancouver (UBC) on May 2, 2003. For an outline of his presentation and a form for registration, please go to:
http://www.arbutuscoast.com/
Regards,

Franca

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For those parents who are being cut-off from their IEII funding because their children have reached the "magically cured" age of 6 and would like to network with other parents in the same boat, please email me directly at:

himright@aol.com

We have built a small discussion group and we are sharing legal information from lawyers we have been consulting, strategies for approaching your MLA, and any other pressure techniques we can bring to bear on this situation.

This group may also be of interest to parents who have never received IEII because their children are too old and for those who may lose their funding in the next year.

The last budget was the governments opportunity to get in line with the Auton decision and they have chosen not to. For those of you who may be confused by the BC government's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada; my sources say that the terms established by the Auton decision are in effect in this province until that appeal is heard (if the Supreme Court agrees to hear it).

As the last two posts to this board have noted, we need to be working together to do bring real pressure on the government. If the protest against their lack of action is too weak to bring real pressure to bear, they will continue to act in defiance of our childrens rights to treatment. They have demonstrated this over and over again.

From the BC governments actions, it is clear that the Auton decision has had little or no impact on their attitudes towards our children. The courts have clearly established our children's rights to medical treatment. Now we need to demand that those rights be acknowledged.

Justin Himmelright

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Greetings –

On Monday March 24; 7-9pm in the Peter J. Peters Room at the West Van Library the ASBC North Shore Group Lecture Series presents Sports + Athletics: Why It's Important + How to Involve Kids Successfully.

Keynote Speakers Susan Strong, B.Sc. PT + Catherine Yoell,B.Sc. PT, physiotherapists from the Centre for Ability, will explore age-appropriate gross and fine motor developmental time-lines – what skills, when, introduced in what order and why; ASD and gross motor ability – what to watch for, what to develop, questions to ask your PT/OT; Linkages to gross motor ability + cognitive development; and social aspects of physical ability and positive peer interaction.

Parent Presenters Jean Lewis and Mike Leger will share 2 Case Studies: Learning How to Ride a Bike and Playing Minor Hockey. Each will demonstrate how specific skills were targeted, mastered and show what the learning outcomes are for each child as well as how they overcame the various challenges presented along the way.

So, come prepared to learn and play – all are welcome. Sure hope you can join us!

Tamara (taml@telus.net) & Anissa (anissalalani@shaw.ca)

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A quick note to those who struggle keeping data books organized or are just looking for a tidier way to do it.
I got sick of writing chicken scratch on little tab dividers so I recently picked up Avery "Ready Index – Easy Edit Table of Contents with Dividers". Updates to the Table of Contents page are no problem! Simply add new information or edit your contents using the see-through Table of contents sleeve (which won't lift print) and standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Preset layouts in Microsoft Word and Word Perfect programs for easy formatting. Print the section titles onto a plain sheet of paper, three-hole punch the contents page, and insert the sheet into the Easy Edit Table of Contents sleeve which is color coded to the corresponding tabs. Comes with 6, 8, or 10 numbered dividers. You can also download free software from Avery that works with Word to make it even (much) quicker and easier and you can change fonts and font size and add coloured text to the contents also.
If you don't got a computer you can write out your contents.

Cheap too at under $5 a pack.

http://www.avery.com

Note if you like using sheet protectors they hide the numbered tabs unless you put them in a sheet protector and cut a slot in the side for the tab.

Not promoting Avery, just trying to stay organized.
P.S. If you try the product and have a computer download the software, its way worth it.

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As the parents of a child with autism. It is so difficult to deal with so many of the situations that arise on a day to day basis. Lack of sleep, our childrens health problems, special diet needs, staying employed, maintaining a relationship. Just surviving is difficult. The stresses that we bear as parents is incredible. One of our members who was a U.S. Marine said that to be the parent of an autistic child is tougher than her days as a Marine. All this that we face is tough enough without us as parents to have to undertake the only treatment possible to help our children, an ABA program. Which is is the responsibility of the Government to fund entirely and to help us as much as they can to organize the program for us. A lot of us have just lost the limited help that we had through the IEP, and seem to have to go through the same struggle all over again. The time might be here that we gather as many parents together as possible and try to get justice through the courts again. We and our children have suffered too much, too long.

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Greetings –

On Monday March 24; 7-9pm in the Peter J. Peters Room at the West Van Library the ASBC North Shore Group Lecture Series presents Sports + Athletics: Why It's Important + How to Involve Kids Successfully.

Keynote Speakers Susan Strong, B.Sc. PT + Catherine Yoell,B.Sc. PT, physiotherapists from the Centre for Ability, will explore age-appropriate gross and fine motor developmental time-lines – what skills, when, introduced in what order and why; ASD and gross motor ability – what to watch for, what to develop, questions to ask your PT/OT; Linkages to gross motor ability + cognitive development; and social aspects of physical ability and positive peer interaction.

Parent Presenters Jean Lewis and Mike Leger will share 2 Case Studies: Learning How to Ride a Bike and Playing Minor Hockey. Each will demonstrate how specific skills were targeted, mastered and show what the learning outcomes are for each child as well as how they overcame the various challenges presented along the way.

So, come prepared to learn and play – all are welcome. Sure hope you can join us!

Tamara (taml@telus.net) & Anissa (anissalalani@shaw.ca)

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