Autism Teleseminar - Webcast: Information Packed
Posted on December 9, 2008
Filed Under General Interest, Helping Parents Help Kids, Learning Tips, Teaching Tips |
Dr. Linda Silbert and her guest, Michelle Dyson, an experienced mother of an child who is diagnosed with autism, recorded an information-packed one-hour Teleseminar Webcast on 12/11/08. It is available as a podcast or MP3 download.
Parents Helping Parents: “How to Find Answers to Help Your Child on the Spectrum” will help parents of newly-diagnosed children as well as parents of school-age children looking for a new perspective. They will answer such questions as:
- Where do I find the best providers in my area?
- What’s the best way to evaluate research in the news?
- What are my child’s rights under IDEA?
- How can I force my insurer to cover ABA?
- Am I doing everything I can?
- Who is going to take care of ME?
When your child is diagnosed with autism, you soon realize there aren’t many experts out there to help. Usually parents are the main researchers, administrators, and treatment-plan implementers. If this describes you, this teleseminar will provide answers you’ve been looking for to help you and your child. It will also provide information for those who know someone who is diagnosed as autistic.
The teleseminar fee is $10. All net proceeds will be donated to Autism Speaks. For more information or to register online, visit: http://www.askdrlindasilbert.com/.
Linda Silbert, Ph.D. and Alvin Silbert, Ed.D. are the authors of the award winning book, Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids.
Additional Information
The terminology of autism can be bewildering. Some phrases include: autism spectrum, autism spectrum disorders (ASD), autism spectrum conditions (ASC), autistic interchanged with autism. In addition,
“…Autism, Asperger’s and PDD-NOS are sometimes called the autistic disorders instead of ASD, whereas autism itself is often called autistic disorder, childhood autism, or infantile autism. Although the older term pervasive developmental disorder and the newer term autism spectrum disorder largely or entirely overlap, the former was intended to describe a specific set of diagnostic labels, whereas the latter refers to a postulated spectrum disorder linking various conditions. ASD, in turn, is a subset of the broader autism phenotype (BAP), which describes individuals who may not have ASD but do have autistic-like traits, such as avoiding eye contact.
– from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum
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