Category: Announcement

Autism2012 – the eighth Awares international online autism conference

www.awares.org/conferences

More than sixty papers are online now and the presenters – among the world’s leading autism authorities and individuals with ASD – will be answering your questions from November 19, 2012.

Register right now at www.awares.org/conferences for this unique opportunity to connect directly with the some of the top names in the field!

Donna Williams on autism and dissociation, Wendy Lawson on autism and ageing, Lucy Hawking on life with an autistic son (and a famous father), Kathy Lette on her ‘challenging, hilarious, humbling and enriching’ experiences with her Asperger’s son and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay on his very different mind – these are just a few of the extraordinary range of papers already online at the Awares conference site (www.awares.org/conferences). And you will have the chance to put your questions directly online to more than sixty of the world’s leading autism authorities and individuals with ASD.

There will also be research papers on brain studies, education, concepts of autism, behavioural issues, psychology, screening and diagnosis and much, much more.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to join in the event which Professor Simon Baron-Cohen has called ‘the finest online conference on the planet’.

The Awares international online conference is run every year by Autism Cymru, Wales’s pioneering National Charity for Autism, and organised by Adam Feinstein.

For further details, please contact Adam Feinstein on: [email protected]

Toilet Training for Children with Autism and Other Disabilities

Toilet Training for Children with Autism and Other Disabilities
Charlotte Crane and Jane Dettra

Saturday, December 8th 2012: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Enterprise Hall Room 80
George Mason University – Fairfax Campus

BCBAs may earn 3 Type II BACB ACE Hrs / Open to the Public!

Register at http://spedsurvey.gmu.edu/snap/2012/aba_workshops/dec8_toilet_training/

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and related developmental disorders often experience difficulty with toilet training. This workshop provides information on determining readiness, developing a routine, habit training, overcoming fear, communicating the need to use the toilet, modeling and pre-teaching to support success.

What to do with all these applicants?

As mentioned in a previous blog post, we received over 80 resumes in for a handful of positions in DC, MD, and VA (at the time the blog was posted it was 70).We thought long and hard about what to do with the additional resumes. Many of the people who applied were more than qualified and were very eager to start. They had a variety of background experiences and we really didn’t want this pool of potential staff members to just disappear as many parents have often told me that they can’t find potential staff members for their program. So what were we to do?

Firstly, we created a new blog site to post new job announcements for the people who had sent in their resumes. This provided us with a central location to have potential staff members look for positions without us needing to constantly email all of them and potentially having our emails marked as spam. Current staff members will continue to be notified via our staff newsletter about open positions.

Secondly, we created a Potential Behavioral Technicians page on the Breakthrough Developmental Services, LLC homepage. The address to the new page is https://bdshelps.com/Pages/BehTechs.aspx. On Thursday, August 16, 2012 the Human Resources Department sent an email requesting an information update from all persons who previously applied for a position. As these updates are received from the applicants, they will update the information that is posted on the page. Parents, if you are interested in having a potential applicant join your team you may feel free to contact the Human Resources Department at [email protected] or 240-355-0834.

As a reminder, all staff members must complete our 4 basic training classes before beginning with a client. Additionally, with each new client there is training specific to their individualized program. All Behavioral Technicians also received ongoing training and supervision.

If you have any questions about this correspondence, please feel free to contact our offices at [email protected] or give us a call at 240-355-0834.

Sincerely,

Barbara Erby

President

Breakthrough Developmental Services, LLC

www.BDSHelps.com

Announcement: Increased Security Measures

In an effort to protect the health, welfare, and safety of our clients as well as to increase the security of all files that are maintained and transmitted by electronic means, all information that is sent from BDS that contains any client’s name or other identifying information (e.g., reports, data sheets, graphs, etc.) will be password protected.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us. We can be reached by telephone at 240-355-0834 or by email at [email protected].

Thank you for your assistance in maintaining the privacy of your children,

Barbara Erby

Education & Behavioral Consultant

Breakthrough Developmental Services, LLC