HANDS in Autism Resource Center
posted: Friday, August 27, 2010
HANDS in Autism Resource Center introduces a Back to School Toolkit. This has useful web-based modules and online learning for school personnel as well as parents and other providers
Please click here to be directed to the website.
HANDS in Autism Summit 2010
posted: Friday, August 20, 2010
 HANDS in Autism Summit 2010
When: September 20, 2010
Breakfast and Registration: 7:45am – 8:30am
Summit: 8:30am – 4:00pm
Where: Riley Outpatient Center Auditorium (see directions on attached PDF)
Please click here for the Summit invitation and directions
Regional Act Early Autism Summit
posted: Friday, June 11, 2010
The Riley Child Development Center will be hosting a Regional Act Early Autism Summit. This event will bring together key state leaders from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin’s early intervention and early childhood communities for the purpose of enhancing relationships and collaborations among these key stakeholders and providing a forum to share information and insights on the opportunities, challenges, and barriers for families and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and related disabilities in the identification, assessment, diagnosis and intervention areas.
For more information about the Act Early Regional Summit Project, click here.
They have requested a pediatrician to be at the Summit to represent the Indiana Chapter of the AAP. Please let Carolyn Downing at cdowning@ismanet.org know if you are interested.
Helping HANDS
posted: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Opportunity to work at a state level with the HANDS in Autism Resource Center to ensure that information, support, and services for children with autism are present and appropriate across each region. This coalition has strong representation from parents, medical staff and schools are Terre Haute, Lafayette, Bloomington, Wayne/North montgomery areas, Muncie/Anderson and are looking for support in these and other areas of the state.
If you are interested in a more collaborative means of bringing information and training to your area and have a willingness to collaborate with parents and school personnel to do so as well as a willingness to actively inform the effort in their area, please contact Naomi Swiezy at nswiezy@iupui.edu. Also plan to attend the initial summit in September for brainstorming and initial efforts to individualize training and outreach in their region on.
The HANDs center will help Local Coalition Cadres in:
- Providing support and coordinated efforts across systems in the care of individuals with an ASD
· Sharing of consistent information and resources between systems
· Sharing of information and resources with others in the communities as a means of building local capacity
· Helping to inform HANDS about the needs and issues of local communities as well as the particular needs of school personnel with regards to autism and developmental disabilities so that we can best position ourselves and the program to assist.
For more information, go to www.handsinautism.org .
Autism Spectrum Disorders
posted: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Recent prevalence rates for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are
now estimated at about 1 in 110 children in the U.S. Increases in
public awareness and research funding in response to the growing
numbers of children and adults with this disorder have led to
numerous important scientific advances over the last several
years.
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