Upcoming Live Events
ACT provides a wide-range of autism-related training to parents and professionals, mostly at Simon Fraser University's Downtown Campus in Vancouver, Canada. We also web stream events and these are open to registrants internationally. We offer bursaries to parents and professionals, targeting low-income participants.
Visit our events page to see our eight 2018 upcoming events:
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!
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.
You can also find 自閉症社區訓練協會 (ACT in Chinese), ACT in Punjabi, Online Mental Health & Autism Project: Looking Beyond Autism, and Autism Research.
Autism Videos @ ACT
AVA - Autism Videos @ ACT covers practical topics on issues across the lifespan - free! We have nearly 30 videos, grounded in research and good practice, providing reliable, non-commercial information to help professionals and parents. ACT videos by leading practitioners from a wide-range of professional backgrounds, allow ACT to serve the autism community internationally, no matter where our viewers live. No registration is required!
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Social Stories with Carol Gray - July 19 & 20, 2018 - Nanaimo, BC
Social Stories can play an essential role in enhancing communication and bringing down anxiety among individuals with ASD. Over the past two decades, Social Stories, and their innovator, Carol Gray, have earned the respect of parents, professionals, and people with autism, for their utility in providing clear explanations of what is often a confusing social world.
Event Details
The Essentials of Advocacy: A Parent’s Guide to Advocating for their Child with Special Needs
This presentation highlights essential information for parents, and the professionals who support them, in understanding the systems that control access to services for children with special needs.
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Search over 1,000 vetted information resources related to ASD, including online articles, videos, and websites.
Upcoming Events
July 19 & 20, 2018 - Nanaimo
July 30 - August 3, 2018 - Surrey
August 16 & 17, 2018 - Vancouver
August 24th, 2018 - Vancouver
B.C. Community Resources
News from ACT on Facebook
“This is something we need to look at more.” Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter say they are taking steps to address on-line bullying of people with disabilities.
Facebook and Twitter: we can do more to protect disabled people
theguardian.com
MPs question social media giants following criticism from Katie Price over abuse of son“If you want an effective intervention you’d better gamify it; you’d better make it fun for kids.” An in-depth look at the quest to develop computer games to help children on the spectrum.
How to game the search for autism treatments
spectrumnews.org
An expanding arcade of video games takes aim at easing autism traits, from poor visual attention to problems with motor skills. But how useful — and fun — are these games, really?“The school district district says it’s working on a plan. But we’ve been at this since last September.”
School year ends in frustration for parents of special needs students - NEWS 1130
news1130.com
Parent of one Surrey student says he's staying away from school because he doesn't have enough time with an educational assistant.
A plan wow that has been the statement for 15 plus years just how long does it take 🙁
This year has been hard for sure on my son. We have a new ist, second ea of the year, and third and fourth childcare worker who we just found out yesterday are leaving at the end did the year. I am hoping we will not have a repeat next year of how his year has been.
Also. To boot, because of his autism designation, the school gets extra funding for his support but they break it down for wages for all the kids that are undesignated. My son rarely got support and when asked why, his school would just figuratively shrug and tell me there's not enough funding for all the other kids.
“We are being treated as citizens. Accessibility and disability rights are being regarded as part of the responsibility of our elected officials.” Reactions to the Accessible Canada Act, new federal legislation aimed at protecting disability rights.
Canada's first national accessibility law tabled in Ottawa | CBC News
cbc.ca
Canadians with disabilities felt a surge of tempered optimism on Wednesday as they watched Canada table its first piece of federal legislation aimed at improving accessibility for people with disabili...
My son was denied the permission to join a paid work program/class under Work BC sub contracted to Kopar. They said because he needs a support worker he can not join because it’s a “privacy issue” for other kids in the class. Seemed like discrimination at the time then I find out that they have denied multiple people with disabilities from joining the program because they did not have support workers. Discrimination confirmed. They do have a program as well for people with disabilities which is not paid and a lot less comprehensive which they tried to steer us toward. We will be seeing our MLA if the complaints are not taken seriously. This news is very good news indeed.
It is a start. Much more needs to be done and in a timely manner!
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，
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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