Marie's idea is to develop a team of experts that can be called upon to consult throughout the district for Autism based issues. To this end, 18 teachers, psyhologists, speech and language, and paras embarked upon a two day conference in South San Francisco. The convention center is a lovely facility that can house a huge number of people in various conferences at one time. It is very 21st century with a beautiful glass brick forcade and some ballrooms at least as big as the Marriots in downtown San Francisco.
In one of the these rooms at least 2000 attendees (10 to one women) watched as the two presenters entertained and instructed on the nuances of the spectrum. The new spectrum is the "perspective spectrum." Clients can be grouped within their ability to relate to others. Taking the other's perspective is an diagnostic rubric for services. Mixed into this mix are the therapies for these needs. Gray is working with Social stories now in video form. She also uses comic booke stories to work through the issues of her clients. Winner is more connected though the social interaction model. The main focus for her is social interaction and using eyes as a measure of thought. This paragraph is probably a gross simplification of the methodologies.
Unfortunately I think that much of it was lost in our groups. The RSP teacher of math that was a couple of my student's case load manager felt that they were trying to sell their products more than show how their therapies work.
Sadly most of our group left before they got into the really good stuff relating to high school/college jobs and transitions. Also a very important part about how to develop friendships/intimacy for high school students. It as offered after 2 pm on Wednesday. Our group felt they needed to get home eariler to beat the rush.
Granted we had a heck of a time getting out the Bay Area after 5 and after we dropped off Heather.
Heather came down and did Tanforan Shopping Center with Mom on the last day. The first day, we went out ot Tong Kings on Geary for a lovely dinner of dim sum, lemon chicken, and mu shue pork.
Overall for us it was a great time. Staying at the Holiday Inn on South Airport was great.. 55 dollars a night. Access to the conference (right next door) was wonderful.
Overall it was great.
Sorry for the break in posting!
Pat
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