Under the headline, “What Autistic Girls Are Made Of” in the New York (NY, US) Times, Emily Bazelon has a feature article about selected issues that are associated with Autism among females. Ms. Bazelon, who also writes for Slate, provided a sensitive and nuanced portrait that includes discussions with experts but repeatedly returns to the case of a girl name Caitlyn.
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Monthly Archive for August, 2007
Prepare to open your browser window wide: The Autism Calendar for August 2007 is available here.
Canadian TV published a brief post under the headline “Ontario to expand autism therapists training” indicating that the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS) will fund training at several locations in Ontario (CA).
A college certificate program in Ontario is being expanded to train more therapists to treat children with autism spectrum disorder.
The expansion of the program to three more colleges brings the total number of participating colleges to 12 across Ontario.
I see that Fanshawe College, for example, offers a program in human and community services that includes a foci on careers (e.g., “developmental services worker”) that would include work with individuals with Autism, but nothing particularly specific about nature of the training.
Are these programs for paraprofessionals? On what do they focus? Do these programs provide training in evidence-based practices?
Perhaps someone who knows about these programs could enlighten me.
Link to the CTV story. Link to the English version of MCYS page on Autism. Snag the PDF document describing Farnshawe’s human services programs.
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