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Autism Ontario "Potential Programme" Events
Registration is required on first come, first-served basis.
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We want your ideas for Social Learning Opportunities (Potential Programme Events)!!
Do you have an idea for a Social Learning Opportunity, Workshop, Speaker Event, or Training Opportunity in our community?
We need parents/guardians and community service providers to submit ideas suitable for individuals with ASD (and/or their families) that you would like to see happening in the community.
Submit your ideas
Peel ACTTs Program
Peel Autism Community Together through Sports
Autism Ontario - Peel Chapter is pleased to present the Peel ACTTs program. Using the recreation model developed by the Special Olympics, Peel ACTTs will feature the ACTIVE START and FUNdamentals program for individuals with ASD. Learn how physical activity can bridge gaps for our children at school and in our community. Please click here to find out more information.

Notice of Peel Chapter Meeting
on
Thursday March 29th, 2012
Featuring Melaine Taddeo from Connect Learning Centre. To find out more information or to RSVP for this event, please click here.
Save the dates!!
Our next Movie Morning is coming up on Saturday March 3rd, 2012 featuring The Secret Life of Arrietty at Empire Theatre at Square One in Mississauga.
Please click here for more information regarding our movie mornings and to register for this event.

Peel Chapter is presenting skating!! Please come and join us for our FUN FAMILY SKATE for the next seven weeks from January 14 to March 3rd, 2012 from 5 to 6 pm at Cassie Campbell Recreation Centre, 1050 Sandalwood Parkway, W (Northwest corner of Chinguacousy and Sandalwood Parkway), Brampton. Please note that there will be NO SKATING on Saturday February 18th.
To register for this event, please click here.

Come join us for our FUN FAMILY SWIM in March!! Please join us and take advantage of the water facilities reserved exclusively for our use.
For more information and to register for the program, please click here.

Autism Ontario Scholarship Applications are now being accepted!
Autism Ontario offers two post-secondary educational scholarships:
- Eleanor Ritchie Scholarship for individuals on the autism spectrum entering the first year of a post-secondary program
- Jeanette Holden Scholarship for siblings of a person on the autism spectrum who are entering the first year of a post-secondary program
Applications will be accepted until April, 27, 2012.
Click here for more information and the application packages.

Spirale: A new web resource for parents!
Autism Ontario’s Spirale website aims to serve as the best possible source for parents, caregivers and the general community to locate regulated professionals and experienced autism workers for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Ontario.
The website, on which professionals self-register their experience and contact information, includes:
· Listings of regulated professionals
· Listings of experienced autism workers
· A Parent Guide
· A growing list of Q & A’s (written with regulated professionals) aimed at helping parents get a sense of what to expect from a particular regulated professional who might provide service for their child or family
Visit the site today!

Provincial Registry of Adults with ASD
Numbers are powerful tools to take to the Ministry of Community and Social Services in order to effectively advocate change.
If more supports, services and understanding for transitional aged youth and adults with Autism and Aspergers are important issues to you, add YOUR VOICE through COUNT ME IN.
Registration Page
Adults Count! A survey on Youth and Adults with ASD in Ontario
Since the 1990s, there have been major changes to the population of adults that are identified with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Many adults seen in clinical practice report that their ASD and related symptoms provided challenges that are not addressed.
Adults Count! is a province-wide survey that will provide important information of the profiles and needs of youth and adults on the Autism Spectrum.
To receive information about Adults Count! or to participate in this survey, visit the Redpath Centre's website, by email at adult.survey@redpathcentre.ca or by phone at 416-920-4999 0165.
Click here for the flyer.

Seeking mothers of children with autism to discuss their experiences with health information.
The aim of the study is to develop a better understanding of Ontario parents' experiences and interaction with information about interventions for their child(ren) with autism. For more information about the survey, please click here.
Would you like better health services in Ontario for your teenager or adult son or daughter? CAMH and York University would like to hear from you!! To participate in the survey, please contact Vanessa Vogan at (416) 535-8501 ext 7806 or vanessa_vogan@camh.net or register online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Family_Study_Consent.
Click here for the flyer.
Our Community Events has MOVED! To find out what is happening with Kerry's Place, ErinoakKids, etc., click on the Community Events tab on the left side of this page.
Please take a moment to provide valuable feedback to our Chapter Leadership Council. We want to hear from you!! We want to know what is important to you so that we can plan events and activities accordingly. You can find our survey here.