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July 17, 2012

REGISTER NOW FOR OUR FANTASTIC Come and Play or Come and Watch and SUMMER EDUCATIONAL EVENTS Support Autism Services in Central Florida!! It’s FREE!! Do you want to see people with ASD included in all aspects CARD would like to see 300 local families attend this of school and community life? Come learn how to support free Autism Awareness event that will raise funds for with a nationally recognized speaker. Register autism services here in Central Florida. This is an Now! event—bring the whole family—we need to show these groups that we appreciate their support or they will stop supporting ASD.

Event to be held at Lyman High School Grass Fields, 865 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood. Games begin at 9:00 am.

Come get re-energized and ready for the new school year at this event. Click on the flyer to expand the view and register now, as Camp Registration Now space is limited. The $5 fee includes dinner. Open for Lake County Has your child’s teacher been provided with ASD training to get the school year off to the best possible start?? If not, don’t Camp Two Can!! you want that? Clermont (ages 5-15) $225 per week 1st camper Our 5th Annual Summer Autism Institute is aimed at the needs of $200 per week 2nd camper educators of students with ASD, but it is also open to parents and July 23, 2012 thru August 3, 2012 other professionals. Please let your principal know about it now so Apply he/she can let the educators supporting students with ASD know about it. It is four days of amazing info, totally free to them! Click on Camp TWO-CAN is a summer program for children with and the flyer to expand and to register. without disorders (ASD). Choose one week or more to participate. The camp is subsidized through PALS. AUTISM SUMMER INSTITUTE Campers with ASD must be registered with the UCF CARD. Camp TWO-CAN will provide campers with natural environments to help August 6-9 build friendships, learn and use social skills, make arts and crafts, Orlando participate in swimming/sports/ games, and use various functional skills, all while having fun! Small groups of children will be supervised by adults who are experienced in working with children with autism. M-F 9am-3pm.

CONGRATULATIONS to our Spring Target Gift Card winner Roxanne Gray of Oviedo. To get a chance to win a Target gift card, simply respond to the satisfaction survey emailed after at- tending a training, group or event hosted by CARD

Free Behavior Services now available for Children with ASD and Medicaid.

ABA now approved as Medical Benefit for all Florida Medicaid recipients under 18 with ASD If your child has ASD and is a CMS client or has a Medicaid HMO or Medicaid card, he or she is eligible for ABA (applied behavior analysis) services at no charge to you. A physician must recommend the frequency and focus of treatment. To get the physician form and requirements click Here and Here. Read More

For more details, or to register for individual days, click on the links on our website, www.ucf-card.org Local Author Book Signing Saturday, July 21, author and CARD ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR?? parent Theresa Berger will appear at Book Warehouse at The Seminole Towne TAKE A LOOK AT THIS CHECKLIST TO BE SURE: Center Mall, 200 Towne Center Circle, Sanford from I have prepared a Portfolio or “User’s Manual” 12-3 pm to sign her inspirational picture book, "Me and My Boy, Skippy...Living Life with Autism". The for my child’s team (if not, come to Parent Devel- book tells the tale of a frazzled mother raising a oped Portfolios, see below ). behaviorally-challenged son with autism. Go to I have reviewed my child’s IEP to be sure I know www.sunsationalpublishing.com for more details. what the team will be working on. If not, contact your coordinator. Dr Manuel Casanova, noted Brain Researcher, to Present in Melbourne I have educated myself on my child’s rights un- Hidden Potentials and the Space Coast Disability der IDEA (if not, listen to the lunch bite or sign up for Council is bringing Dr. Manuel Casanova to our August IEP training. Melbourne on July 21st from 6:00pm to 9:00pm to I have prepared my child for changes at his speak about the latest treatments and research concerning autism at the Hilton Melbourne Rialto school this year by a walkthrough of schedule and Place. Cost is $100 per participant and includes visual supports/social stories if needed. dinner. Click here for more information.

UPCOMING CARD “Back to School” PARENT EDUCATION SEMINARS Click on date & preferred location to register, or call 407 823 6011. Parent Developed Student Portfolios Summer School 2012: The Power of Getting Organized. Parents will learn how to create an “owner’s manual” for their child. This manual has been proven through research to ease transitions between In this issue of the Special Ed Advocate we explain the grades and schools. Hands-on workshops with lots of examples. importance of keeping and organizing records. You will learn where to start, what supplies you will need, and 7/23 West Orange (at Palm Lake) how to develop your Master Provider List. Session 1: 7/31 Brevard County (SCEIC) Organizing Your Child's Special Education File. 8/2 East Orange County (CARD) Click here for more information. 7/26 Osceola County 8/13 Volusia County RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY: SEXUALITY 8/14 Lake County AND ADOLESCENT WITH ASD Behavior Basics 2 A graduate student research team from the Clinical This presentation will cover what to do when you have a problem behav- Psychology program at Florida Institute of ior and how to look at problem behaviors from a functional, behavioral Technology would like to invite adolescents to perspective using principles of ABA. The concepts of functional assess- participate in a research project, designed to gain an understanding of the social, behavioral, and ment and strategies for reducing and replacing behavior will be dis- educational aspects of basic sexuality knowledge cussed. 7/24 Behavior Basics II in Lake County among adolescents with ASD. Outcomes of this research will critically important when considering 7/25 Lunch Bite #587: What’s the Difference between a 504 Plan and an the development of programming and/or sexual IEP? education programs for youth with ASD. Gesa Barto will help you discern the difference in order to make sure your Participant Requirements: child has what is needed for academic success. Adobe internet lunch · This is an internet-based survey that will take session. approximately 30-45 minutes. Creating Social Stories · Your child must be between the ages of 11 years, 0 months and 18 years, 11 Learn the formula for making and using Social Stories to decrease anxiety months. and improve behavior or teach the “hidden curriculum” for your child with ASD. We will discuss and then begin to generate social stories in this · It is required that the participant receive no session. assistance in completing this survey. 8/9 East Orange County This is a confidential survey. No names will be attached to survey responses; an anonymous code 8/10 Daytime East Orange County number will be assigned to the survey to maintain the participant’s confidentiality. We assure you that

any reports based on this research will contain only Now Available On-Demand: data of a statistical nature. Names or other Potty Primer, Targeting Early Reading Skills, Targeting Word Attack, Tar- identifying information will not be used. ALL geting Reading Fluency, Targeting Early Arithmetic Skills, Portfolio. If you participant information will remain confidential. can’t make these trainings in person (always the best way to learn), you can watch a recorded version. Contact your coordinator to request the By clicking the website link below you will be link you are interested in. taken to a consent form that provides more information about the research and survey. Please note that clicking this link does not Sensory Friendly Movies require completion of the study. Available this Summer Survey Link: https://SexualityAndAutism.questionpro.com AMC Theaters Limited Clinical Trial Rave Cinemas For a new drug to treat ASD. Children ages 6-12. Click here for more details on the study. Special Needs Contact CNS Healthcare to learn more or to sign Storytime up for their newsletter of upcoming studies. 407 425 5100. www.cnshealthcare.com July 21st at 10:30am East Branch (Oviedo) Open House 310 Division Street Applied Behavior Center 407-665-1580 Everyone is welcome. Oviedo Location: Come for great stories, July 23, 2012 5:30 - 7 pm music, puppets, and make 113 West Chapman Road a craft! Oviedo, FL 32765 407-324-7772 www.appliedbehaviorcenter.com

Both facilities will provide tours, light refreshments, intake and insurance verifi- cation paperwork. Come meet our in cen- ter directors and view our classrooms!