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  ABA Based Services and Supports for Children and Youth with ASD Central West Region

ErinoakKids and Kerry’s Place Autism Services are thrilled to announce a new service available to children and youth with ASD in Central West Region. The Ministry of Children and Youth Services has recently allocated resources to provide Applied Behaviour Analysis Based Services and Supports for Children and Youth with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Using an ABA approach, services and supports will focus on addressing the needs that children and youth with ASD have in the following key developmental areas:

1. Communication
2. Social / Interpersonal
3. Daily Living
4. Behaviour management / emotional regulation

For more information, please click here.

Kerry's Place January-June 2012 newsletter, containing upcoming events and groups, can be found here. 

Free Training Workshops covering a variety of topics designed for respite workers, parents, family and friends, and agency staff.  Click here for all training opportunites.

Parents of Adults with ASD Support Group.  Please click here for more information.

Kerry's Place Autism Service Spring 2012 Social Group flyers for 6-10 years and 11-17 years old living in Peel and Halton regions.  For more information, please click here.

KIDS PATHWAYS PEEL and Kerry's Place Autism Services are having the following parent sessions Understanding a New Diagnosis of ASD - Session 1 & 2 in the winter 2012.  If interested, please click on the following link below.

KIDS PATHWAYS PEEL is also having a Family Resource Drop-In every third Thursday for 2012.  Click here for more information.

Variety Village Peel will be starting their second sessions of Children in Motion/Youth in Motion from Tuesday January 10th to Tuesday March 13, 2012.  Children in Motion program is for children between the ages of 3 to 12 years and will be held from 6:00pm to 6:55pm.  Youth in Motion program is for youth between the ages for 13 to 21 years and will be from 7:00pm to 8:25pm.  Please see the flyer for more information and to register for the session.  Please bring the filled in registration form to the session.

Location:  Parkholme School, 10750 Chinguacousy Road, Brampton, ON

Lots of space available!!

• The Duty to Accommodate: What is it? and How does it apply to Education?
• Suspensions and Expulsions and Your Rights
• Transition from Pre-school to Kindergarten
• On the Road to Adulthood: Next Steps

ASD Achievers Consulting and Functional Forms are excited to announce that they are starting Social/Communication Skills Groups in York and Peel Region on Sunday mornings starting in February 2012.  For more information, please contact Inina Goldenberg or Michelle Schondorf at asdachieversconsulting@rogers.com

Kids CAN are excited to introduce the following NEW programs and services for kids and parents starting in February, 2012:

• Sensory Sundays
• Parent Training Series
• March Break Opportunities
• Training and Consultation for Professionals

Parents can use SSAH funding to cover the costs.  Please see the flyer for more information or call (905) 486-1035.

Camp Kennebec is a non-competitive inclusive summer residence camp for campers aged 7 and up with a range of exceptionalities including: ADD/ADHD, ASD, Aspergers, and social and behavioral difficulties.  Kennebec offers our campers as "typical" a summer camp experience as possible, with all the activities, silliness, personal growth and wonder that a summer camp offers.  For more information, please see the flyer.

Lighthouse Landing Camp is a not-for-profit summer camp that provides special programs and respite for families with children with ASD.  Please see the flyer for more information or visit their website at www.lighthouselanding.ca.

Camp Prospect was established in 1998 at the Mansfield Outdoor Centre.  In the spring of 2006, Camp Prospect opened its first full time residential program.  Due to the increased service that Camp Prospect provides, the name of the organization was changed to Prospect Services.  Prospect Services encompasses Camp Prospect, Prospect Residential Services, Prospect Respite Services and all other services that Camp Prospect previously provided.  For more information about Camp Prospect, please visit their website.