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Autism Society of Indiana and Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center/HANDS in Autism Program will host an Autism Family Support Group. Learn more.
The HANDS Autism Coalition has developed Local Community Cadres structured around the regions of ICASE (Indiana Council for Administrators in Special Education) initially and are designed to facilitate the communication and collaboration of families, school personnel and medical providers around autism services in their particular communities.
The developing groups include:
· North Central Local Community Cadre, Lafayette Chapter
· Southwest Local Community Cadre, Evansville Chapter
· Southwest Local Community Cadre, Terre Haute Chapter
· Northeast/Northwest Local Community Cadres, Fort Wayne Chapter
· Others considering the options!
If you would like to know more and/or to join the groups beginning or to help facilitate the beginning of their own local chapters with the assist of our HANDS group, please contact Naomi Swiezy at nsweizy@iupui.edu or at www.handsinautism.org especially at the LCC pages: http://www.handsinautism.org/lcc.html.
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HANDS in Autism Resource Center introduces a Back to School Toolkit. This has useful web-based modules and online learning for school personnel as well as parents and other providers
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Recent prevalence rates for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are
now estimated at about 1 in 110 children in the U.S. Increases in
public awareness and research funding in response to the growing
numbers of children and adults with this disorder have led to
numerous important scientific advances over the last several
years.
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