Chinese Families Autism Support Group Meeting
Parent & Family Resource Centre Inc. trading as Disability Connect from 1st October 2014 Chinese Families Autism Support Group Meeting Tuesday 16th June 2015 – 9:30am till 1:00pm Social Room, Te Tuhi 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Auckland FREE entry and ample FREE carparking (at rear of building) Complimentary light lunch included The Parent and Family Resource Centre (trading as Disability Connect) is delighted to announce the Chinese Families Autism Support Group meeting in June 2015. Parents of children who have Autism often experience challenging behaviours from their children. This topic of this meeting will be on strategies for behaviour based on the principal of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), which covers: Understanding behaviour How to ‘read’ your child’s behaviour Understanding the functions of behaviour What strategies to use to deal with behaviour Elisa Slaat works as a services manager for the Children’s Autism Foundation. She has a Masters degree in special education from the Netherlands, trained as an ABA therapist and worked as for the Centre for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) for 4 years doing intensive ABA training with children at home and in schools. At the Children’s Autism Foundation she provides outreach services, skills through play sessions, the Stepping Stones Triple P programme and is coordinator for the Join In Jumping Beans programme. The presentation will start promptly at 10am (presentation will be interpreted into Mandarin). Print copies of the presentation (in English) will be given to all attendees. Please note that the workshop will start promptly at 10am Programme for the day: 9:30 Registrations Open (tea and coffee) 10:00 Presentation: Strategies for behaviour by Elisa Slaat, Children’s Autism Foundation 12:00 Lunch and Networking 1:00 Finish All Chinese and Asian families raising a child with Autism are welcome to this meeting. Please inform as many parents as possible about this meeting. For catering purposes it is important to register for this meeting. You can register in English or Chinese by emailing Sanny at Disability Connect [email protected] . You can also phone 526-1298 (DDI) or 636-0351 to book over the phone (English). Click here for a map link to the venue. P: (09) 636 0351 PO Box 13385 Onehunga Auckland 1643 F: (09) 636 0354 E: [email protected] W: www.disabilityconnect.org.nz
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