Autism Society of Washington, Tri-Cities Chapter

 

 May 1, 2008 Publication No. 37

Hello,

Welcome to The Autism Connection Newsletter. If you’d
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email me privately at l_krahn@yahoo.com

April showers bring May flowers!

Laura Krahn, Editor


P.O.C.A.
(Parents of Children with Autism)

Monday, May 5th POCA will be held at
Cousin’s Restaurant off of Road 68 in Pasco.

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Check out The Autism Society of
the Tri-Cities website.

www.autismsocietyofwatcc.com

Local events at a glance…

May 1st – Richland SEPAC Planning Meeting
May 5th - POCA at Cousin’s Restaurant
May 13th - CDC Parent Support Group
May 15th – KGH/Children’s Hospital – Autism 208
May 20th - ASW-TCC meeting at the ARC
May 23rd – PAVE at ARC by appointment only
(call Sherry Mashburn at 1-877-821-4113)

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SEPAC (Special Education Parent/Professional Advisory
Council) Planning Meeting
Date: Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Time: 5:00 PM at The Richland School District
Administration Building Boardroom at 615 Snow Avenue
Please come and join us!

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The CDC (Children’s Developmental Center) will be
having their parent support group meeting for children
with autism on Tuesday, May 13th at the CDC.
Childcare is available upon request. The meeting is
from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. in Room 1. For more information
or if you have questions, please email Christine at
christineb@childrensdc.org or you can reach her at
735-1062, Ext. 270.

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Class: Autism 208: SOCIAL SKILLS
KGH and Children’s Hospital Presents:
Instructor: Steve Becker, PhD will speak on
“Adulthood” on May 15th, 2008 7:00-8:30 pm

Location KGH Family Health Clinic at 203 West 8th
Avenue Kennewick, WA
Battelle Room (downstairs)

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(ASW-TCC) (The Autism Society Tri-Cities Chapter) will
meet at The ARC on Tuesday, May 20th at 7:00 p.m. The
ARC is located at 761 Williams Boulevard.
Childcare available with RSVP only.

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Class: Autism 101
KGH and Children’s Hospital Presents:

May 22nd from 7-8:30 p.m.

Autism 101" is a 90-minute class sponsored by
Children's hospital, for the parents and caregivers of
children recently diagnosed with autism who wish to
understand this disorder in greater depth. The content
for each presentation is the same, but will be taught
by rotating faculty members from Children's Hospital
and the University of Washington, along with some
community professionals. In the end of each session
there will be a question and answer time with the
speaker.

RSVP is REQUIRED: Call 586-5119 or email to:
angel.trump@kphd.org or mbrooks2b@charter.net
Location KGH Family Health Clinic at 203 West 8th
Avenue Kennewick, WA
Battelle Room (downstairs)

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Southeastern Washington Autism Conference
Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1
Kennewick, WA

SAVE THE DATE!

Keynote Speakers:
Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
and
Paula Kluth, Ph.D.


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IMPORTANT: The Neurological Resource Center will not
be doing registration this year. In order to receive
registration information from Spectrum Training
Systems, who will be doing the registration, please
send an email to spectrumtrainingsystems@yahoo. com as
soon as possible, asking to be put on the email
distribution list for this conference.

Please forward this email to anyone that you think may
be interested in attending this conference.