www.awares.org/conferences

Just a reminder that the series of one-day seminars on Awares - Autism Cymru's pioneering website - involving the world's leading autism experts continues this Wednesday, October 1, 2008.

The participant at this fifth online autism seminar in 2008 is Dr Darold Treffert, the world's leading authority on autistic savants. He has been studying the savant syndrome since he met his first savant in 1962, when he developed a Children's Unit at a hospital in Wisconsin, USA.  He is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin and on the staff of the Behavioural Health Department of St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.  He also conducted one of the world's first epidemiological studies of autism in 1970.

Dr Treffert maintains a very active web site on savant syndrome at www.savantsyndrome.com through the Wisconsin Medical Society.  He is also author of Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome (1989), the first comprehensive book on the condition, and has participated in numerous documentaries on savant syndrome and autistic disorder.

Dr Treffert was consultant on the1988 movie, Rain Man, in which Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar for his portrayal of an autistic savant.

The seminar will open at 12.01am British time on October 1, 2008 and run throughout that day. Don't miss this unprecedented opportunity to put your questions to Darold Treffert - and please let anyone else know who might be interested.

You can register right now for this exciting event at www.awares.org/conferences

 
Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

Editor

Awares and AutismConnect

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New tool for autism education

This is Karl Smith, creator of the DT Trainer, and this is one of my few blasts per year informing the autism community on our continued progress. 

Thanks for your support of the DT Trainer as we are now in over 800 school districts, 220 private schools and service providers, and thousands of homes.  I will continue to expand the DT Trainer to cover more topics and a wider developmental range (currently the developmental range is 2-9 years old).

However, there is another area of learning that is critical for our kids.  There is 15 to 20 years of research showing how video modeling increases acquisition rates across a wide range of topics.  Video modeling materials have been available for 10 - 15 years, and yet I was amazed that this powerful teaching method is impacting few of our kids.

Looking into this disconnect, I discovered that video modeling media has been released to be played in standard media players starting with video types, and now computer based media players.  The problem is that video modeling is not just about playing videos, but is about the management of the process.  Regular media players lack the capabilities to organize the materials to facilitate quick access to a student's specific tasks in a teaching situation. Trying to find and use up a piece of video is clumsy, cumbersome and impractical in a fluid teaching situation.  Standard media players also lack the support for task analysis (breaking down tasks), sequences, transitions from video to images, transitions from images to text, data collection, visual schedules, and many other useful features to fully exploit the power of video modeling across a wide range of students and skills.

I set out to fix this situation and created the first designed player for video modeling the Activity Trainer.  There is a short 2 minute video that introduces the Activity Trainer at www.dttrainer.com/atpromovideo.  This tool is feature rich being driven by both research and feedback from experts in video modeling. The Activity Trainer allows users to create their own activities, and we are developing a Skills Library that includes skills in the categories of academic, daily living, communicating non-verbal initiation, recreation, social and speech.  We are reaching out to video modeling creators for third party libraries which customers could add to the Activity Trainer.  We will also reach out to Universities and others for a community library.

Our goal has been to offer a robust, easy to use tool that makes video modeling practical for school and home and that is affordable for schools and parents.  We had to go way out on the limb financially to create this tool, but I felt that it is important for our kids to get access to the power of video modeling.  I hope the community will download our free trial and either provide feedback or purchase to benefit your child or students and to help support this work.  The work has been endorsed by Dr. Peter Gerhardt of the Organization for Autism Research.  (See our web site)  We have thus far released about 167 activities in the developmental range of 2 to 9 years old.  We are currently working on over 60 more and will continue to expand our skills library.

There is a short 2 minute video that introduces the Activity Trainer at www.dttrainer.com/atpromovideo.  Visit our web site (www.dttrainer.com) for more information on the Activity Trainer and to download a free 30 day trial.

The Consumer Economic Review Board (CERB) has just concluded a comprehensive analysis of key economic indicators realting to consumerable goods. We are expecting that a 37% will definately take place by the end of the fourth quarter (September 30, 2008). This means that the price of groceries, medicines, supplys and all other items that are used once and depleted will rise by 37%. This is very unsettling based on the current economis crisis that we are facing. CERB is therefore strongly recommending that individuals take preemptive measures to help cope with this drastic increase. Two well established business that will offer drastic price relief are http://walmart.com and http://savemoreusa.com

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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, qtxncmjhxjtp wrote:

> Autism is quite a mystery. Every person who is diagnosed with the
> condition manifests different symptoms. There are various symptoms and
> each person diagnosed with the condition displays autism in his own
> unique way. It is rare to find all the symptoms or even most of the
> symptoms of autism in one single person. Generally speaking, an
> autistic has three problem areas: social skills, communication skills,
> and the manifestation of repetitive and restricted patterns of
> behavior, interests, and activities.

This single minded obsession amongst the great scientists and engineers
of the world is what brought us ultimately from stone tools to the
internet. Don't paint it as pure pathology!

When the genes behind autism are understood and we start testing the
great minds of history the world will be in for a surprise.

P.S. Read about Einsteins childhood, speech delay and everything else
we commonly associate with autism.

> Impaired Reciprocal Social Interaction
> When an autistic displays impaired reciprocal social interaction, it
> may include the following: inability to perform body language and
> nonverbal communication (eye contact, proper facial expressions, and
> gestures);

> indifference of other people's feelings

Partially unaware is closer to the truth. A blind person isn't indifferent
to stepping on your little dog, they just weren't aware its there.

I don't see facial expressions well, but generally pick up emotions from
body motions. For example stiff vs. fluid motions, heavy footsteps vs.
light. Oddly I do clearly see facial expressions of bliss (the expressions
painted on Buddha statues), but find many others hard to distinguish.

> and inability to
> understand and manifest emotions like pleasure, distress or pain;

Simply untrue, perhaps our body language isn't what you expect, but
all those I know or have communicated with on the spectrum are able
to experience pleasure and distress. Some are unaware of physical pain.

Studies show very high levels of endorphin release, this seems to be
true, I'm very susceptable to the runners high. In that state can fall
and be unaware I've cut myself until someone mentions I'm bleeding. But
otherwise I'm aware of pain.

> tendency to become unsociable; difficulties in interacting;

Being social takes a good deal of energy, we need a break.

> and wariness about physical contact.

Or extremely cuddly once we get past aversion to touch. The underlying
factor is extreme sensitivity to touch, this can be positive or negative.

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Autism is quite a mystery. Every person who is diagnosed with the
condition manifests different symptoms. There are various symptoms and
each person diagnosed with the condition displays autism in his own
unique way. It is rare to find all the symptoms or even most of the
symptoms of autism in one single person. Generally speaking, an
autistic has three problem areas: social skills, communication skills,
and the manifestation of repetitive and restricted patterns of
behavior, interests, and activities.
Impaired Reciprocal Social Interaction
When an autistic displays impaired reciprocal social interaction, it
may include the following: inability to perform body language and
nonverbal communication (eye contact, proper facial expressions, and
gestures); indifference of other people's feelings and inability to
understand and manifest emotions like pleasure, distress or pain;
tendency to become unsociable; difficulties in interacting; and
wariness about physical contact.
Impaired Communication...

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Miriam

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You may hear autism referred to as a PDD. This stands for Pervasive
Development Disorder, and is a blanket term for the many different
autism types.
When talking about autism most people think of an autistic child in
the classic sense, but that is only one of the types that are used to
diagnose children with this condition in today's world.
Though the film Rainman is probably the most well-known source that
most people base their understanding on, there is more to this
condition than what was depicted in the movie. Some children are very
similar to Dustin Hoffman's character, but there are many more
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The Rainman type of autism, or classic autism, is otherwise known as
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