ACT's Summer 2019 Events: Web-streaming or in-person
Social Stories 10.2 with Carol Gray
Thursday & Friday, August 15 & 16, 2019
Surrey, BC
New Cutting Edge Strategies to Improve Executive Function Skills with Sarah Ward, MS, CCC-SLP
Wednesday & Thursday, September 25 & 26, 2019
Surrey, BC
New PBS Learning Series
Watch ACT's new Positive Behavior Support in School, Home and Community series. This learning stream of eleven presentations tackles the serious issue of how to work with children with challenging behaviors.
Including Students with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities in Schoolwide PBS: All Means ALL! PBS – Working Together to Support Children and Families
B.C. Resources
Looking for autism & special needs resources specific to British Columbia? Visit the new B.C. Resources page to find community agencies, recreational activities, service providers, support groups, education & employment, community events, the autism manual, new diagnosis hub, transition to adulthood, and much more!
Mental Health and Autism video series
Latest videos, + 4 more new videos. Part of the Online Mental Health & Autism Project.
Mental Health in Post-Secondary Education: What is It Like for Students with ASD and What Does the Research Say? - Dr. Rashmeen Nirmal Girls and Women with Eating Disorders – Dr. Christopher Gillberg Practical Strategies for Supporting Mental Wellness of Teenage Girls and Women with ASD – Dori Zener
Find Autism Information
Find practical autism resources with the AID search. We've made it even easier to find resources and tools for parents and professionals with a new subject listing. Free and relevant world-wide.
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Women & Girls with Autism
Researchers are increasingly recognizing that autism affects women and girls differently than males. Delays in diagnosis are common, reducing access to services, with implications for long-term mental health and employment prospects.
These presentations feature recent research, with a focus on the experience and perspectives of women and girls with autism.
Watch NowWeb streaming an ACT Event
ACT’s web streaming is LIVE online video broadcasts, in real time, of autism training events. Visit our web streaming page to find future events with Carol Gray and Sarah Ward, and find details on how your school, organization, or group can receive discounted rates.
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Search over 1,300 vetted information resources related to ASD, including online articles, videos, and websites.
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View all videosSpecial Needs Community Events
ACT lists workshops and conferences in B.C. related to autism and other special needs that are provided by local agencies and organizations.
News from ACT on Facebook
“Finding friendships and finding love really shouldn’t be a privilege. It should be a right.” A story about a friendship and dating app whose creator says he wants to help people on the autism spectrum make meaningful personal connections.
New Dating App Hiki Helps People With Autism Find Love
Hiki, the first dating and friendship app specifically for the autistic community, launched publicly July 16.A good news announcement about increased respite funding in B.C.
B.C. serves up $6.3 million boost to province’s respite program - Cloverdale Reporter
The announcement, in Surrey, aims to give parents of special needs children a breakWhere do I find out about respite care?? Is this part of the autism funding or totally different? I have no idea what it is or how to apply. We just got our diagnosis about 2 years ago
I'm no expert but if you ask a social worker they can give you advise on this ,
Hopefully for all parents, regardless of child's diagnosis and hopefully in home as parents need. When the NDP were in in the 1990's, Joy McPhail ended it. That was as damaging a destruction as anything the Liberals did. Joy McPhail proved then she was not for women & parents.
Thanks to a charitable donation, firefighters in an Ontario community now have kits containing items like noise-cancelling earphones and tactile objects, for children on the autism spectrum they might encounter in the course of their duties.
Cornwall firefighters carrying kits to soothe children with autism | CBC News
Firefighters in Cornwall, Ont., are packing some extra equipment when they respond to emergencies these days — they're carrying special kits to help calm children with autism who may have trouble de...Great news ,thank you to the firefighters,
Not just kids I hope—a lot of adults need calming too.
Surrey will soon have these too.
Do we have anything like that in Terrace or Kitimat?
“It is usually my own personal stories. Some parts have been changed to protect identities, but it’s all from real life.” An eighteen-year-old autistic man is performing a solo show called “Quirky” at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
Uplift: Funny and touching solo Fringe play about autism
Aidan Zeglinski has lived with autism his entire life — now he wants you to laugh and shed a tear while hearing about it. Zeglinski, 18, has created, written, and will perform Quirky, a solo one hou...自閉症社區訓練協會 | ACT in Chinese
ACT 自閉症社區訓練協會，
是加拿大卑詩省內針對家有自閉症兒童的家庭提供諮詢及轉介服務的非營利機構。
ACT in Punjabi
ACT has been able to both create and identify valuable resources for the Punjabi-speaking community in British Columbia.
View Punjabi-language Resources