February 2008

Contact: bmcgaw@kidsenabled.com with additions to the Community Calendar

Thursday-Friday, February 7-8, 2008

• Get a HANDLE® on Autism Disorders
  The HANDLE® Institute International, LLC
  Enhancing human capability through a Holistic Approach to NeuroDevelopment and Learning Efficiency
  
  Carolyn Nuyens, presenter
  
  

  Time: 8:30-5:30 pm
  Location: The Hilton Suites Atlanta-Perimeter
  6120 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA 30328
  

  First time offered in the United States!
  This 12-hour intensive course views the many challenges of autistic existence from a broad perspective, rooted in neurodevelopment. Judith Bluestone’s highly acclaimed second book, The Fabric of Autism, provides the basis for the concepts and practices taught in this course.

  In this course you will:
  

  • Learn to apply insights from The Fabric of Autism
  • Learn the HANDLE perspective on recent ASD research and other therapies
  • Explore how to use the activities in the FOA and recognize signs of stress as expressed by people along the Spectrum
  • Start to interpret the messages “Autistic” behaviors may be saying about system irregularities
  • Discover how to apply the tools you have acquired to help individuals on the Autism
  spectrum.
  
  

  Registration fee: $260. Call 206-204-6000 to register or  e-mail frontdesk@handle.org
  
  The HANDLE Institute International, LLC
  1300 Dexter Avenue N., Suite 110
  Seattle, WA 98109
  Fax 206-860-3505
  

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

• A Practical Understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Biological Research, Diagnosis and Treatment
  
  Professionals and Parents, please join us for an extraordinary evening: A Practical Understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorders - Biological Research, Diagnosis and Treatment
  
  Speaker: Ricki Robinson, MD, MPH
  Location: Scottish Rite Hospital Main Auditorium, 1001 Johnson Ferry Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30342-1600
  Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  Cost: $15 per person*
  Registration: c/o Ellen Robinson, The Blackstone Center, 1777 Northeast Expressway, Suite 175, Atlanta, GA 30329
  
  Parking on Site: $3.00 - $4.00
  
  * Checks payable to: Barbara Dunbar, PhD
  
  Ricki Robinson, M.D., M.P.H., a nationally recognized physician and speaker in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorders is co-director of Descanso Medical Center for Development and Learning in La Canada, California, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine and Senior Attending Physician at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She had been in private practice for almost 30 years, specializing in children with developmental delays for the past decade.
  
  She has been actively involved in the field of autism since 1990 and is a central figure in CAN (Cure Autism Now), the interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, (ICDL) and the Floortime Foundation. She has organized autism task forces in Southern California medical centers stimulate research efforts. in addition, Dr. Robinson organized and chaired a nationally recognized task force to define the standard of care for clinical trials in autism.