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7th
International Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Conference: Temple Grandin,
perhaps the most well known adult with autism, will be the keynote
speaker at the MRDD conference on Friday, October 13, 2000
at the Holiday Inn-Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland.
For additional information, please contact Val Sharpe, (410)
480-9667, VMKKO@aol.com
or Tom Wood (915) 747-5572, Twood@utep.edu.
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Growing
up with Autism - Skill and Life Development from Childhood
through Young Adulthood: Saturday, October 14, 2000
at the Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center, Ellicott
City, MD. Sponsored by the Maryland Developmental Disabilities
Administration, DHMH, and the Anne Arundel, Baltimore-Chesapeake
and Howard County chapters of the Autism Society. For
information call: (410) 551-0655.
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The
Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
(ICDL) presents and international conference entitled "Autism:
What are the causes? Why the increase in cases? Redefining
standards of care." The
conference will be held on November 10-12 at the Hilton Tysons
Corner in McLean, VA. This three-day conference will
include numerous presentations, discussing such topics as:
(1) the frontiers of biomedical treatment in autistic spectrum
disorder, and (2) increasing abstract thinking, empathy, peer
relating and academic achievement in children with autistic
spectrum disorder. Registration fees for the three days
are approximately $300 (depending on your date of registration
and if you are an ICDL member). For more information,
contact the ICDL at (301) 656-2667.
STEP Seminars, Inc. (Strategic Teaching for Everyday Progress)
is presenting a workshop entitled "Autism in Adolescence"
on October 22 in Potomac, MD. STEP Seminars, Inc. offers
a variety of workshops for families and professionals who
care for children with special needs. Their programs
provide practical approaches to enhance learning opportunities
inherent in each and every day. For more in
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formation
about this workshop (including location and registration fees)
or about other workshops they offer, contact
STEP Seminars at (301) 495-8824.
For information on other conferences, check out
autism-advisor.com (a resource for persons dealing
with ASD). There is a newsletter for parents, siblings
and friends of persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well
as ASD persons themselves. The newsletter provides information,
support, and resources to broaden understanding and coping
skills. To subscribe, send an e-mail to Lee Irwin, Ph.D.
(leeirwin@ari.net) with
a messaage "subscribe autism-advisor.com".
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ASPERGER'S
FAMILIES SAID FLOCKING TO SEATTLE SCHOOLS -
"A
CHANCE LIKE NO OTHER FOR
AUTISTIC CHILDREN"
by
Paige Parker (Seattle Times)
Six
years old, and he's reading road signs out loud like
a man from Omak lost in the City. In a singsong
lisp, Turner Tackitt calls out every sign that flashes
by: "Do not enter. No parking any time.
Traffic advisory 35 miles per hour when flashing."
The kindergarten summer campers are traveling to McDonald's
on a surprise field trip. Their van vibrates with
Britney Spears and chaos, but Turner doesn't notice
and would probably have to be shown, step by step, how
to join the others.
Turner is a high-functioning autistic. He has
an astounding vocabulary and reads as well as a second
or third grader, but has a difficult time with basic
social skills, such as playing with other children.
Turner will start first grade this fall in one of seven
new classes designed by the Seattle school District
to teach mildly autistic children and children with
a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome. No
other school district in the nation has offered this
many classes for such children.
Parents from around the country have said they're willing
to pack up and move here. One family has moved
from New York to get its child into one of the 42 spots
in the Seattle program, and delegations of educators
from as far away as Japan, China and Europe are visiting
Seattle to study it, said Michelle Corker-curry, who
supervises the new classes for the Seattle district.
{Continued at:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com}
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