Chinese Families Autism Support Group Meeting

Parent & Family Resource Centre Inc.
trading as Disability Connect from 1st October 2014
Chinese Families Autism Support Group Meeting
Tuesday 16th June 2015 – 9:30am till 1:00pm
Social Room, Te Tuhi
13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Auckland
FREE entry and ample FREE carparking (at rear of building)
Complimentary light lunch included
The Parent and Family Resource Centre (trading as Disability Connect) is delighted to announce the
Chinese Families Autism Support Group meeting in June 2015.
Parents of children who have Autism often experience challenging behaviours from their children.
This topic of this meeting will be on strategies for behaviour based on the principal of Applied
Behaviour Analysis (ABA), which covers:
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Understanding behaviour
How to ‘read’ your child’s behaviour
Understanding the functions of behaviour
What strategies to use to deal with behaviour
Elisa Slaat works as a services manager for the Children’s Autism Foundation. She has a Masters
degree in special education from the Netherlands, trained as an ABA therapist and worked as for the
Centre for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) for 4 years doing intensive ABA training with
children at home and in schools. At the Children’s Autism Foundation she provides outreach
services, skills through play sessions, the Stepping Stones Triple P programme and is coordinator for
the Join In Jumping Beans programme. The presentation will start promptly at 10am (presentation
will be interpreted into Mandarin). Print copies of the presentation (in English) will be given to all
attendees.
Please note that the workshop will start promptly at 10am
Programme for the day:
9:30 Registrations Open (tea and coffee)
10:00 Presentation: Strategies for behaviour by Elisa Slaat, Children’s Autism Foundation
12:00 Lunch and Networking
1:00 Finish
All Chinese and Asian families raising a child with Autism are welcome to this meeting. Please
inform as many parents as possible about this meeting.
For catering purposes it is important to register for this meeting. You can register in English or
Chinese by emailing Sanny at Disability Connect sanny@disabilityconnect.org.nz . You can also
phone 526-1298 (DDI) or 636-0351 to book over the phone (English). Click here for a map link to the
venue.
P: (09) 636 0351
PO Box 13385 Onehunga Auckland 1643
F: (09) 636 0354 E: admin@disabilityconnect.org.nz W: www.disabilityconnect.org.nz