UW Lecture Series: Coping with Holiday Stress

UW Lecture Series: Coping with Holiday Stress

U_W

Thursday, November 19th
Autism 203: Holidays
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 (different room location W3747A, see instructions on back)
Instructor: Steve Becker, PhD
“Coping with Holiday Stress”

The Special Education Service Agency (SESA) and the Alaska Autism Resource Center (AARC) are pleased to offer this series in Alaska free of charge. There are three ways you may connect to this Autism series:

Inside Anchorage area: Local Anchorage participants are welcome to attend in person at SESA’s Anchorage office. The lecture will be held in the Boardroom, which has a 20-25 person limit. Doors will open at 5:15 p.m. SESA’s address is: 3501 Denali – Suite 101.

Outside of Anchorage area: To connect via videoconferencing: Access to videoconferencing equipment, such as Polycom, and to an Internet connection (SESA uses GCI’s SchoolAccess, using a router to connect to a partial T1 line) should be arranged. Many rural school districts have this type of equipment, as do some other sites. Please follow your district or agency procedures to schedule the videoconference with your service provider and tech staff.

To connect via teleconference:
Participants may also teleconference in by dialing 1-888-254-2858 and requesting to join the SESA autism videoconference lecture. You need to mute your phone. There will be a limit of ten telephone connections. You may want to get a group together and use a speakerphone. If you call after 6 p.m., ask for the “on call.”

Hope to see you or hear from you on Thursday!

Download The Original PDF Flyer Here.

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Adults with Autism Inspire Worries and Action

By ERIC ADLER

The Kansas City Star

Each year, tens of thousands of children diagnosed with autism, from mild to severe, enter adulthood and leave the safe confines of schools and their services behind.Every day, their parents, such as Jennifer Smith-Currier of Gardner, worry what will become of them.

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/1569350.html

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Autism Moms Have Stress Similar To Combat Soldiers

By Michelle Diament

November 10, 2009

Mothers of adolescents and adults with autism experience chronic stress comparable to combat soldiers and struggle with frequent fatigue and work interruptions, new research finds. These moms also spend significantly more time caregiving than moms of those without disabilities. Researchers followed a group of moms of adolescents and adults with autism for eight days in a row. Moms were interviewed at the end of each day about their experiences and on four of the days researchers measured the moms’ hormone levels to assess their stress.

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2009/11/10/autism-moms-stress/6121/

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A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis

A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis

By CLAUDIA WALLIS
Published: November 2, 2009
It is one of the most intriguing labels in psychiatry. Children with Asperger’s syndrome, a mild form of autism, are socially awkward and often physically clumsy, but many are verbal prodigies, speaking in complex sentences at early ages, reading newspapers fluently by age 5 or 6 and acquiring expertise in some preferred topic — stegosaurs, clipper ships, Interstate highways — that will astonish adults and bore their playmates to tears.
In recent years, this once obscure diagnosis, given to more than four times as many boys as girls, has become increasingly common.
Much of the growing prevalence of autism, which now affects about 1 percent of American children, according to federal data, can be attributed to Asperger’s and other mild forms of the disorder. And Asperger’s has exploded into popular culture through books and films depicting it as the realm of brilliant nerds and savantlike geniuses.

But no sooner has Asperger consciousness awakened than the disorder seems headed for psychiatric obsolescence. Though it became an official part of the medical lexicon only in 1994, the experts who are revising psychiatry’s diagnostic manual have proposed to eliminate it from the new edition, due out in 2012.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?_r=1

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Twin Study Underscores Role of Genes in Autism

By: Amy Norton

Reuters Health

When one identical twin develops the developmental disorder autism, the risk of the other developing it is high — substantially higher than it is for fraternal twins, a new study confirms. The study, which gathered information from 277 twin pairs in which at least one had an autistic disorder, found that when one identical twin developed an autistic disorder, the other one also did 88 percent of the time.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE59L4MW20091022

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Mercury Levels Similar in Autism and Normal Children

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

Children with autism have mercury levels similar to those of other kids, suggesting the mysterious disorder is caused by a range of factors rather than “a single smoking gun,” researchers said on Monday. The researchers at the University of California, Davis, initially found that children aged 2 to 5 with autism had mercury levels lower than other children because the autistic kids ate less fish, the biggest source of mercury that shows up in the blood.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE59I4W020091019

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New Pfizer Unit to Take on Autism

By Lee Howard

Diane Stephenson of Groton has three tangible reasons for wanting to know as much as possible about autism. Stephenson, associate research fellow at Pfizer Inc.’s Groton laboratories who helped start an autism research unit there earlier this year, has two nephews and a niece with the neurological disorder, which is often accompanied by language difficulties, behavioral problems, sleep interruptions, poor eye contact and low social skills.

http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=019e5c81-642a-4600-90e6-dd5846d3fd22

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University Of Washington & Seattle's Children Center Lecture Series

University Of Washington & Seattle's Children Center Lecture Series

U_W

Autism 201: Social Skills

Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009
Instructor: Steve Becker, PhD
“Sexuality and Relationships”

Download The Original PDF Flyer Here.

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Parent Sharing Teleconference 9/1/09

Parent Sharing Teleconference 9/1/09

Special Education Service Agency
&
Alaska Autism Resource Center
Press Release
AARC Logo ANNOUNCEMENT

Reminder to all that our “Parent Sharing” teleconference will be next Tuesday, September 1st from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. This is a monthly event that is held the first Tuesday of every month at the same time. It’s a great opportunity to talk “parent to parent” about issues relating to your children, to ask questions, and hear from other parents. Staff from the AARC will be on hand as well. Please join us!

Dial 1-800-315-6338. When prompted enter the code 2272#. Hope to see you there!

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New Fairbanks Office Coming Soon!

New Fairbanks Office Coming Soon!

the-nerland-building-lgStay Tuned For Details

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Contact The AARC

Anchorage:
3501 Denali Street, Suite 101
Anchorage, AK 99503
(907) 334-1300 | 866-301-7372
aarc@sesa.org

Fairbanks:
542 4th Avenue
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907.456.2600 PH | 907.456.2618 FAX
FAI_aarc@sesa.org

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