Re:Ray Cepeda/Bridget / Minshew

[Guest guest]

Elija Worskhops

Ray Cepeda

DATE: February 10th 2005

TIME: 10-2 (lite refreshments served)

LOCATION:THE ELIJA LIBRARY

COST:Only available and Free to ELIJA Members

Attention ELIJA Parent Members!!!! Join us for a few hours of Q & A at the ELIJA

HOUSE LIBRARY with Behavioral Consultant, Ray Cepeda

Parenting a child on the Autism Spectrum is certainly a challenge. We encounter

numerous issues and could use as much support as possible when it comes to our

home programs, school placements, behavior issues or just every day life

situations. Ray Cepeda is a behavioral consultant to many families in the New

York, New Jersey area, as well as across the United States. He is also workshop

leader for the Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention. He has had over 12 years

of experience, supervising, consulting,training and speaking on the topics of

behavioral interventions for children on the Autism Spectrum. Mr. Cepeda will be

available at our ELIJA HOUSE LIBRARY, exclusively to our parent members, for a

Question and Answer Open Discussion.

Limited to 15 parents- first come first serve basis- we will not HOLD Or reserve

a spot.

YOU MUST CALL IN FIRST TO CONFIRM AVAILABLE SEATING AND MEMBERSHIP

* NOTE: In order to ensure all of our members get access to this workshop, those

who have previously attended will be put on a waiting list and contacted a few

days before the workshop

Call Gabby @ 516 433 4321

Then can fax or mail in your registration as soon as possible

To Register: Click here for the Ray Cepeda Open Q & A

Bridget BCBA

DATE: February 12th 2005

TIME:9-4

COST: $100.00 Non Members - $75.00 For ELIJA Members - $125.00 For WALK IN/LATE

(after 2-5-05)

LOCATION: C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University Brookville, New York

Humanities Building/ Room 119

(USE TILLES CENTER ENTRANCE and BEAR RIGHT. WHITE building on the LEFT near the

middle of the lawn)

Morning Topic: I can do it myself: Behavioral strategies to increase the

independence of children with autism

Afternoon Topic: Let’s play: Incorporating peers in the treatment of children

with autism

Presenter: Bridget B.C.B.A

Description: This is a two topic talk

Morning: With the advance of behaviorally based programming, children with

autism can learn many skills never thought possible. Children with autism can

learn to talk, play with toys, socialize with their peers and become active

functional participants in their families and communities. The goal of any

intervention program however, is to help individuals with autism perform these

responses without supervision and direct prompts from adults. This presentation

will review specific skills that enhance the independent functioning of

individuals with autism across a range of curriculum areas and behaviorally

based teaching strategies to achieve independence.

Afternoon: Teaching children with autism to socialize and interact with peers is

an important component to a comprehensive behavioral program. Teaching children

to benefit from these interactions, however, requires systematic programming

based upon the principles of applied behavior analysis. This presentation will

review the research base supporting peer directed programming for children with

autism and specific strategies that promote successful interactions. Videotaped

samples of prerequisites skills and teaching interventions will be presented.

Bio: Bridget B.C.B.A Bridget A. is a Board Certified Behavior

Analyst. She holds a Doctorate of Psychology from Rutgers University, and

received her Masters degree in Early Childhood Special Education from Columbia

University. Dr. has specialized in the education and treatment of

children with autism for the past nineteen years. In 1988, she co-founded the

Alpine Learning Group, a well regarded education and treatment center for

children with autism in New Jersey. She currently serves as Director of

Educational Programming. Dr. is on the editorial board of the Journal of

Applied Behavior Analysis, is a member of the Autism Advisory Group for the

Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and is a board member for the

Association For Science in Autism Treatment.

To Register for Bridget Click here

Minshew MD

Date: April 11th 2005

Presenter: J Minshew, M.D

Time:9-4

Location:

Marriott Residence Inn Plainview - Media Center 3rd Floor

Cost:$100.00 Non Members - $75.00 For ELIJA Members - $125.00 For WALK IN/LATE

(after 4-4-05)

Description:New Developments in Autism and What they mean to you : New research

about how people with autism think and how that way of thinking leads to their

social and emotional deficits, focus on details, and inflexibility.

Bio: J Minshew, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at

the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is a research neurologist who

has developed a model of the cognitive and neural deficits in autism. Her

analytic scientific work reflects insights regarding the clinical syndrome won

from years of working with hundreds of patients with autism and the results of

extensive data collected. Her research, conducted in collaboration with her

extensive research team, has completed large-scale neuropsychologic studies, eye

movement and posturography studies, and structural and functional imaging

studies of high functioning autistic individuals. This research has resulted in

identification of deficits in complex cognitive abilities across domains with

reliance on intact simpler abilities and evidence of under-development of

connections of neocortical systems and reliance on the activity of more basic

localized brain regions.

Register:

To Register for Minshew Click here

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