Mission Statement: This blog was created to provide information on getting help for autism in general while focussing on locally available resources for families with newly diagnosed children in Belleville and Quinte area.

Please browse the blog at your leisure. You are welcome to comment on the posts. If you are a parent, an autism consultant, counselor, teacher with information on autism resources available in our area, please email your information to benziesangma@gmail.com. Your information will be added within 24 hours.

Local Autism Support Groups

Parents Engaging Autism Quinte (PEAQ), an autism parent support group, meets once a month on the first Tuesday of the month (no meetings in January, July and August) at Kerry's Place, 189 Victoria Avenue, Belleville at 6:30 to 8 p.m. If you have questions or suggestions for autism topics that are important to you so that we can invite appropriate autism professionals to speak at these meetings. Next PEAQ meeting is on June 5.

Autism parent support group meeting hosted by Mental Health Agency, Trenton and Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) meeting is on the Second Thursday of the month from 6 to 7:30 p.m. If you have require any further information please contact Marya Peters for more information at 613 392-2811 ext 3953 or email marya.p@trentonmfrc.ca

For info on Community Living Prince Edward County Parent Support group, contact Resource Consultants @ 613 476 6038

Central Hastings Autism Support Group meets in Madoc at the Recreation Centre. Contact Renee O’Hara, Family Resource & Support, 613-966-7413 or Tammy Kavanagh, Family Resource & Support, 613-332-3227

Transition planning for elementary school students with autism

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Functional Analysis of Behaviour

Understanding behaviour is a tricky thing. Behaviour, experts say, is communication. It is not always easy to understand why a certain behaviour is occurring in an individual. This is even more so in children on the spectrum. They say it is important to see not just what type of behaviour is occurring but what is causing the behaviour - what happenned immediately before the behaviour occurred or in the past hours, even days - and what is the consequence of that behaviour - how people around that child react to that behaviour. Each section - cause, behaviour and consequence (Antecedent,Behaviour,Consequence or ABC)- needs to be observed and carefully recorded for patterns in terms of environment, sequence and time of day before a plan can be made to remedy what may be a negative occurrence successfully. The observation period in case of a non-verbal child could be a long process and could take days or even weeks in some cases. The key, they say, is a careful observation of the ABC of each occurrence. In short, they note, a functional analysis of the behaviour is critical for putting a successful remedial plan in place.
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I created this blog with my sincere wish that those of you reading this will want to share your own stories, both good and bad, what worked for you and what didn't and together, we can make it easier for the next family beginning their own journey of discovery. By posting what you know, where you have recieved certain services, who you have talked to, whose expertise you trust, how you navigated the school education services and by responding to questions in the discussion thread, know that you have helped a family in need. So, parents, experts in the field, counsellors, teachers and everyone who has any information on resources available, please feel free to post on this blog.