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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 please go to our FaceBook account and post your suggestions so that we can invite appropriate autism professionals to speak at these meetings.
Autism parent support group meeting hosted by Mental Health Agency, Trenton and Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) is on every second Thursday of the month (from September to June) from 6 to 7:30 pm. For more info, please contact Bryanna Best, Special Needs Inclusion Coordinator at 613 392 2811 ext 2076 or email at bryanna.b@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
Parenting your child during Covid-19 pandemic
Friday, February 5, 2010
Food for thought, maybe?
Limits or not, in Ontario you get placed on a waitlist to recieve such treatment for a period of as much as 3 to 4 years depending on different communities. Meanwhile, your child doesn't stop growing and he/she loses the best window, his/her earliest years (2-5 years, to get the benefit out of this treatment. So, then you are really left to your own devices, to plan your own program and carry it out as best as you can while you wait. I think many parents of children on the spectrum are well-educated on the subject and they know their children well, what works and what doesn't. That's a big plus and a big advantage over professionals who come to our child's life. I believe we can do a lot to redirect the path of our child on the spectrum at home.
Geneva Centre in Toronto now offers a whole lot of courses online for those who might want to look into it for their own training. My son is on a waitlist and may not get the treatment for another two years, which is when he turns 8. It maybe even get closer to his turning 9. I thought I might as well learn to do the job somewhat myself and got my training with Geneva Centre and I feel quite empowered to do what needs to be done for my son at least during this waiting period.