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January 2010
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March 2010
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	01	02	03	04 Hot Topics Meeting	05	06 Great Behavior Breakdown Introductory Classes(I)
07 (Week 06)	08	09	10 Great Behavior Breakdown Introductory Classes(I)	11	12	13
14 (Week 07)	15	16	17	18	19	20 Great Behavior Breakdown Introductory Classes(II)
21 (Week 08)	22 Family To Family Classes - Topeka	23	24 Great Behavior Breakdown Introductory Classes(II)	25	26	27 Families Together Annual Conference - Topeka- Feb5th Early Reg.
28 (Week 09)

Description:

Developing Talents Hot Topics social and vocational skills group, beginning the week of Feb. 15 and ending the week of April 5. In addition, we’ll host an informational meeting Thurs., Feb. 4, 7 pm - 8 pm, at a place to be determined. Once we get our group together, we’ll choose a meeting place as central to group members' homes as possible. We can also choose whether to meet on Thursday evenings or Sunday afternoons.

For those of you new to Hot Topics, it is an eight-week educational group, based on Temple Grandin and Kate Duffy’s book Developing Talents. The eight-week program is designed to help teens and young adults with Asperger's and high-functioning autism develop their conversational, social and job-readiness skills. While socializing with each other, participants explore and discuss workplace issues as well as talk with mentors working in careers of interest to group members. The group is informal and offers plenty of time for participants to talk and visit with each other as well as participate in career exploration activities.

Returning Hot Topics members will focus more on developing a career plan, learning more about self-employment as an option, practicing social and interviewing skills as well as identifying and researching potential employers.

The cost is $160 for the program, which is held at an inexpensive restaurant. Participants purchase their own snacks and drinks.

“Hot Topics" is an eight-week educational group, designed to help teens and young adults with Asperger’s and high-functioning autism develop their conversational, social, and job-readiness skills. While socializing with each other, participants explore and discuss workplace issues as well as talk with mentors who are working in jobs group members want to know more about.
The group is informal and offers plenty of time for participants to talk and visit with each other. We weave in structured activities and assignments, so that group members will:

·Find out about their individual learning styles and how to choose a job around them

·Discover how their brain processes information and jobs that would be good for their particular style

·Learn stress management techniques

·Practice interviewing, active listening and conversational strategies

·Research jobs they’re interested in

·Solve work-related problems in a group

·Make a list of possible mentors with their parents

·Talk with guests working in jobs they want to know more about

·Research interesting employers

Parents receive weekly emailed updates about the group’s activities, homework and progress. In previous groups, parents have met with each other while their kids meet with us. During that time, we can offer information and a career planning session developed for people on the spectrum.

For more information, contact Kate Duffy or Tom Thirlkel at Developingtalents@gmail.com,
816-753-2636.

In other news, HBO will be airing its new movie about Temple Grandin’s life on Sat., Feb. 6, so let us know what you think of it. Finally, we’ll be developing another round of Hot Topic groups for youth with more severe disabilities to help them explore jobs and a more independent life. Our web site is almost completed, so we’ll have information about the new groups posted there.

Kate Duffy and Tom Thirlkel

Description:

Class II on February 20th

How do you make a difference? Learn to impact severe behaviors in your most difficult children with love, relationship, and influence. Personalized, live, information packed classes are coming to you this February, and it is all FREE with a purchase of The Great Behavior Breakdown book and Workbook. This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of the paradigm shift for generations to come.

This Introductory class will give you:

1. The core understanding to handle any difficult behavior
2. Learn to apply Bryan's Top 3 Interventions
3. Step by step methods to extinguish and decrease the top three most challenging behaviors in a short period of time: Lying, Defiance and Stealing.

Place: St. Joseph Public Library, East Hills Branch.

502 North Woodbine, St. Joseph, MO 64468

Time: 9:30am to12:30pm Registration begins at 9.

To go to register online visit http://kenthomcounseling.com/

Description:

Class II on February 24th

How do you make a difference? Learn to impact severe behaviors in your most difficult children with love, relationship, and influence. Personalized, live, information packed classes are coming to you this February, and it is all FREE with a purchase of The Great Behavior Breakdown book and Workbook. This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of the paradigm shift for generations to come.

This Introductory class will give you:

1. The core understanding to handle any difficult behavior
2. Learn to apply Bryan's Top 3 Interventions
3. Step by step methods to extinguish and decrease the top three most challenging behaviors in a short period of time: Lying, Defiance and Stealing.

Place: Maryville RII School District Superintendent’s Office.

1429 S. Munn, Maryville, MO – just North of High School, North basement entrance.

Time: 1pm – 4:00 Registration begins at 12:30.

To go to register online visit http://kenthomcounseling.com/

Description:

Class I on February 6th

How do you make a difference? Learn to impact severe behaviors in your most difficult children with love, relationship, and influence. Personalized, live, information packed classes are coming to you this February, and it is all FREE with a purchase of The Great Behavior Breakdown book and Workbook. This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of the paradigm shift for generations to come.

This Introductory class will give you:

1. The core understanding to handle any difficult behavior
2. Learn to apply Bryan's Top 3 Interventions
3. Step by step methods to extinguish and decrease the top three most challenging behaviors in a short period of time: Lying, Defiance and Stealing.

Place: St. Joseph Public Library, East Hills Branch.

502 North Woodbine, St. Joseph, MO 64468

Time: 9:30am to12:30pm Registration begins at 9.

To go to register online visit http://kenthomcounseling.com/

Description:

For family members of close relatives with

Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression

Major Depression

Borderline Personality Disorder

Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder

Panic Disorder & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Co-occurring Brain Disorders & Addictive Disorders

F2F is a series of 12 weekly classes structured to help family members understand and support their ill relative while maintaining their own well being. The course is taught by a team of trained volunteer family members who know what it's like to have a loved one with a serious mental illness in the family.

Over 100,000 people in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have completed this course. We think you will be pleased by how much assistance the program offers.

Description:

Class I on February 10th

How do you make a difference? Learn to impact severe behaviors in your most difficult children with love, relationship, and influence. Personalized, live, information packed classes are coming to you this February, and it is all FREE with a purchase of The Great Behavior Breakdown book and Workbook. This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of the paradigm shift for generations to come.

This Introductory class will give you:

1. The core understanding to handle any difficult behavior
2. Learn to apply Bryan's Top 3 Interventions
3. Step by step methods to extinguish and decrease the top three most challenging behaviors in a short period of time: Lying, Defiance and Stealing.

Place: Maryville RII School District Superintendent’s Office.

1429 S. Munn, Maryville, MO – just North of High School, North basement entrance.

Time: 1pm – 4:00 Registration begins at 12:30.

To go to register online visit http://kenthomcounseling.com/

Description:

This message is forwarded by the Disability News listserve of the Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns for informational purposes.

Families Together's annual conference, Together We Can Learn, is February 27 in Topeka at the Capital Plaza Hotel. Keynote speakers include Rud and Ann Turnbull and John Maag, professor at University of Nebraska. Some of the breakout sessions are Medical Homes for Special Needs Children, Technology Solutions for all Learners, and Autism: The Important of Early Identification.

Early registration family member or person with a disability is $30 (after February 5 $40.) Early professional registration is $40 (after Feb. 5 $50), Early College Student (with ID) is $20 (after Feb. 5 is $30).

Register on-line with a credit card at www.familiestogetherinc.org. Flyers with more information are available from Families Together (1-800-264-6343) or KCDC (1-800-295-5232.)