ASP Activities for February 2009

Family Support Group Meeting

Sharing hopes and dreams for families of Persons on the autism spectrum.

Date: 21 February 2009, Sat
Time: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Venue: ASP Office, Room 307, ML Building, # 47 Kamias Road, Quezon City.
Free Registration (15 Slots Available)

Our Facilitator:

This month’s facilitator is Ms Tiffany Tan. She serves her second term as member of the board and now, as ASP’s Board Secretary. She is the co-founder of SPARKS, a support group for families of persons with autism in Quezon City.

Equally active in the autism community is her 18 year old son JR, a college freshman, proudly with autism.

February 28 Back to Back Seminars

The ASP Seminar Series serves as a platform to educate Filipino parents and professionals on the various interventions, modalities and theories surrounding Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

 9:00AM - 12:00NN

Learn more about AAC and how it facilitates communication for children who are limited speakers or non-speakers and how it can decrease difficult behaviors.

Our Speaker:

Ms. Grace R. Reyes. Teacher Grace is a passionate educator and learning specialist. She completed her Masters in Education, Major in Reading from the University of the Philippines. As a co-founder of Bridges Foundation, Inc she functions as its Director for External Affairs, Program Coordinator, and member of the Management Committee. She is also the co-founder, Directress Program Coordinator of Links Learning Center, a pre-school where students with special needs are trained for mainstreaming.

Elements and Application of Behavior Modification

1:30PM - 4:30PM

Understand more about the underlying causes of behavior and learn various strategies and techniques in changing inappropriate or non-functional behaviors of our special-needs children.

Our Speaker:

Ms. Barbra Dans-Paguia is Co-Founder of both Bridges Foundation, a school for special needs children, and Links Learning Center, a preschool where special needs students are mainstreamed. Teacher Baba earned her BS Elementary Education with concentration in Special Education and Masteral units in Family Life and Child Development at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her 25 years of teaching include being Instructor at UPIS of the U.P. College of Education and Child Development Center of the UP College of Home Economics. Apart from her colorful teaching experiences, she is the author of two instructional Language work books and trainor of teachers in Special and Preschool Education at Bridges Foundation, where she is both Director and Head Program Coordinator.

Venue: Bridges Foundation, 22 Scout Limbaga Street, Barangay Laging Handa, Quezon City
The seminar fee is inclusive of handouts, certificate, and snacks.

Pre-Registration Fee
Single Seminar (until February 25) | ASP Member- P 400.00 Non-member- 500.00
Double Seminar (until February 25) | ASP Member- P 700.00 Non-member- 800.00

On-site Registration Fee
Single Seminar | ASP Member- P 500.00 Non-member- 600.00
Double Seminar | ASP Member- P 800.00 Non-member-1,000.00

Pre-registered participants may pay to Autism Society Philippines, Banco de Oro, Savings Account # 3980002955. Please fax the deposit slip with the name/s of participant/s to ASP office and bring it on the day of the seminar. On-site registrants will be accepted depending on the availability of slots. There will only be 80 slots available. No refund will be given to participants who did not show up on the date of the seminar.

For more details, please call ASP at 02-926-6941, 02-929-8447

Their application and implementation of the various interventions, modalities and theories discussed in this seminar are left at the discretion of the attendee. The views and personal experiences of the speakers are of their own and don’t necessarily reflect that of the views of the organization.

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