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The Rotary Club of Adelaide West has invited families who are registered for services with Autism SA to one of two special movie screenings – Arthur Christmas (Rated G) and Puss In Boots (Rated PG) (including popcorn, drinks, showbags and face painters). Tickets are free for clients and their families/carers.

Details

Saturday 10 December: Both movies screening at Hoyts Norwood 9:30am

Sunday 11 December: Both movies screening at Hoyts Salisbury 9:30am

A limited number of tickets are available by ringing the Autism SA Infoline on 1300 288 476 before Tuesday 6 December 2011.

The Rotary Club of Adelaide has invited families who are registered for services with Autism SA to a special event – World Festival of Magic.

Appearing for one day only this magical spectacular is an SA Business sponsored event. Tickets are free for special needs and disadvantaged children and their families/carers.

Date: Sunday 18 December 2011 (1:00pm, 4:00pm or 7:00pm)

Venue: Thebarton Theatre, Henley Beach Road, Torrensville

Duration: 90 minutes

A limited number of tickets are available by ringing the Autism SA Infoline on 1300 288 476 before Wednesday 7 December 2011.

5 December 2011 – 2 January 2012, 9am-5pm

A Photographic Exhibition by Deaf Children with Professional Deaf Photographer Sophia Borick, in conjunction with the celebrations of the International Day of People with Disability.

Exhibition opening date 6th December 2011 at 4.30pm

To be opened by Sofya Gollan, Deaf Artist/Film Maker and a presenter of TV ABC’s PlaySchool program.

Accessible, Auslan Interpreted

Dept of Education & Children’s Services (DECS) Gallery, Ground Floor, 31 Flinders St, Adelaide

Please RSVP Thursday 1 December by text 0408 807 511 or email sborick@internode.on.net.

The podcast for the November DIRC Disability Forum, “Nothing about us without us: Involving children and young people in disability research”, presented by Professor Phillip Darbyshire, is now available.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:08 — 110.0MB)

Download a PDF version of this flyer here.

Want to attend the Credit Union Xmas Pageant this year?

The Army of Autism Awareness Angels have organised a reserved area for 40 ASD families. If you would like tickets send the Angels an email with your name and how many tickets you would like (immediate family). A lotto will be held to see who attends so register your golden ticket at autismawarenessangels@hotmail.com.

16 – 17 November 2011

Novita Children’s Services provides community based rehabilitation services for children and young adults in South Australia. This bi-annual conference will offer insights into paediatric Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) services across Australia, and provide information and strategies regarding education and behavior management. Latest ABI specific research and recommendations for service evaluation and outcome measurement for the paediatric ABI population will be presented by experts in these fields from across Australia.

Participants can register to attend for one or two days. An opportunity for further networking will be provided by an evening dinner with guest speaker Michele Colmer on 16 November.

Registrations must be received by November 4th 2011.

Download the Conference Brochure and Registration Form.

Children and adolescents have varying ability to recover from difficult events or challenging life situations. Many factors are involved in creating the circumstances which foster resilient approaches to life problems, and they operate and inter-operate at the levels of the individual, the family, the school and the wider community. This workshop looks at current understandings of resilience from a systemic viewpoint, and reviews current research to provide direction to practitioners in supporting clients to develop more resilient attitudes to life’s problems.

To register for the upcoming Resilience workshop on 21st October from 2pm-5pm, contact Bower Place:

Address: Level 2, 55 Gawler Place, Adelaide SA 5000

Postal Address: PO BOX 379, Rundle Mall SA 5000

Email: info@bowerplace.com.au

T: (08) 8221 6066

F: (08) 8221 6061

Focused on families of younger children with Asperger syndrome, this session describes the characteristics of Asperger syndrome and helpful strategies.

Dates: Monday 24th October from 7:00-9:00pm

Venue: Autism SA, 262 Marion Rd, Netley

Price: $10 per family (payable at door)

Contact: call info line on 1300 288 47 to book or for more info

Website: www.autismsa.org.au

This session will introduce some of the social difficulties that children experience and will discuss strategies that can assist them.

When: Wednesday 19th October from 9:30am-12:30pm

Venue: Autism SA, 262 Marion Rd, Netley

Price: $10 (payable at door)

Contact: call info line on 1300 288 47 to book or for more info

Website: www.autismsa.org.au