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Practical Strategies for Supporting Mental Wellness of Teenage Girls and Women with ASD
Girls and women with autism are often hard to identify due to their polished rote social skills and internalized ASD characteristics. This presentation discusses clinical techniques to help support girls and women on the spectrum.
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A cafe founded by the sister of an autistic woman is one of the businesses described in this article about restaurants in the U.S. that hire employees who have developmental disabilities.
How 1 cafe is helping people with autism break into the workforce
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Because everyone deserves the opportunity to work.“It was such a relief. I was like, ‘OK. Now a whole lot of my life makes sense.’” Some stories of women who were diagnosed as adults.
Invisible women, lost girls: To be female on the autism spectrum | The Daily World
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“Weird.” Nichole Lowther has been hearing this word her whole life.Visit our news page for the latest in the autism community including:
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ACT’s News Round-Up: November 2018 Edition
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This week: Understanding Mental Health Problems and ASD – Evidence-Based Case Conceptualization to Inform Treatment Planning Jonathan Weiss, PhD, CPsych This presentation is pa...A graduate student from Mexico is hoping through her research in Canada to develop a tool that would make diagnosing autism easier in small or remote communities.
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Amparo Viridiana Marquez may come from a small town in Mexico, but she has big ambitions in pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology (BPK) with financial help from the...Special 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.
View Community Events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。
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