On Saturday a free Autism Awareness workshop took place in the Volstorff Ballroom in the Student Union. The workshop was offered to parents, teachers, students, child care providers, social workers, counselors, other professionals and anyone interested in learning more about autism.
Autism Awareness 2013 was sponsored by Michael?s Journey, Family Resource Network, East Central Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education.
Tammy Clark, the East Central AEYC president, said that Michael?s Journey, the main sponsor, first connected with the Fishback Center and said they would like the community to have more awareness about what autism is like. Those sponsors then connected with the Family Resource Network to hold a conference. All the sponsors combined efforts and created the free autism workshop.
?I hope this conference is one of many, looking at this to be a yearly event,? Clark said.
Two student organizations helped with the workshop events. Alpha Xi Delta members and SDSU AEYC students helped with a variety of tasks to make sure participants knew where to go and what to do.
Vickie L. Isler addresses a crowd at the Autism Awareness workshop in the Volstorff Ballroom in the Union. The workshop was attended by almost 150 people.
About 150 people were registered and attended the conference. The workshop consisted of two main speakers and two breakout sessions.
Participants in the Autism Awareness conference received a folder of information and a free children?s book ? either ?Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type? or ?The Snowy Day.?
The first presenter and keynote speaker was Vickie L. Isler, clinical director and principal at Children?s Care Hospital in Sioux Falls. Isler?s presentation was labeled ?Autism Basics.? Isler covered what autism is, signs and symptoms of it, and what an individual should do if they suspect a child may have autistic tendencies.
After Isler?s presentation, workshop attendants split up and attended one of two breakout sessions either in the Pheasant/Herold Crest or Lewis and Clark room. Session A was called ?Diagnosis and Treatment? and was with speaker Brittany Schmidt of ABC Consulting. Speaker Marcia Maltaverne of South Dakota Parent Connections led Session B called ?Putting the Pieces Together,? about autism and partnering with families.
After the breakout sessions, participants came back together in the Volstorff Ballroom. The last speaker of the workshop was Annie Borns, a local kindergarten teacher. She discussed classroom strategies for children with Autism.
?The basis is that we are all responsible for all of the children in our community, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, and it is their success that we strive to achieve and celebrate,? Borns said.
Kimberly Fitzpatrick a sophomore Early Childhood Education major who attended the conference said the conference helped prepare her for something she might see in her career.
?It is something I will have to see a lot in the future, and I also work for G.A.P.,? Fitzpatrick said. ?[G.A.P.] is an after school program. There are kids with disorders and it is informative to know the diversity within the disorders and know you can?t treat every child the same.?
Contact Kenzie Wosje at kwosje@sdsucolegian.com
Source: http://www.sdsucollegian.com/2013/03/20/campus-workshop-aims-to-improve-autism-awareness/
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