Autism Symposium

Phone: 973-395-1441

Fax: 973-395-1595

E-mail: [email protected]

60 Evergreen place

Suite 410

East Orange, NJ 07018

FAMILY SUPPORT ORGANIZATION OF

ESSEX COUNTY

The Family Support Organization of Essex County (FSOEC) provides

peer support, education and advocacy for parents and

caregivers of children with serious emotional, behavioral and mental health challenges and intellectual and developmental disabilities. .

Who Should Attend? Parents Educators Administrators Child Care Providers Parent Liaisons, etc.

This presentation explores the male experience when a child has autism. How does a man deal with a problem he cannot fix? The presenter is the father of an adult child with autism and provides insight into the challenges in-volved in the father-child relationship and developing male parent involvement. 1. Participants will learn at least 5 traditional male role norms. 2. Participants will identify at least 3 strategies to strengthen the father. 3. Participants will learn at least 5 phrases of guy talk to engage with men. 4. Participants will identify 3 techniques to increase involvement.

With the wide variety of treatment approaches marketed for autism, how do parents know where to start, what to try, and which ones may be most helpful to their child (of any age)? This presentation will discuss what a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder entails and some of the most commonly used interventions. Participants will be directed to resources that assess the credibility of various interven-tions, learn how to objectively measure their effectiveness, and understand what current research indicates about the most popular options. This information will benefit fami-lies and professionals who want help making sense of treatment claims and evaluating an individuals current program. Participants will learn why it is important to know

what the research says and provide resources for learning this information in a family-friendly way.

Participants will learn the red- yellow-, and green-light system for classifying different treatments and explain why each falls in each category.

Participants will also learn questions to ask to ensure the selected treatment(s) are truly benefitting the learner.

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Contact Family Support Organization of Essex

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8:30 9:15 am

Registration

9:15-9:30 am

Welcome & Introductions

Hazeline Pilgrim

Executive Director

Family Support Organization of Essex

County

9:30-11:30am:

Guy Talk: Engaging Fathers and

Strengthening Families

Dr. Robert Naseef

11:45-12:45pm:

Making Informed Choices on

Autism Intervention Dr. Suzanne Buchanan

Executive Director,

Autism New Jersey

1:00pm:

Closing Remarks

Dr. Suzanne Buchanan is the Executive Director at Autism New Jersey, a licensed psychologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst - Doctoral (BCBA-D). She has an earned doctorate in clinical psychology from Long Island University and has worked in the autism field for more than fifteen years. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Dr. Buchanan provides Autism New Jersey with clinical leadership; disseminates information regarding evidence-based intervention to parents, professionals, and the media; and advises public policy efforts from a clinical perspective. Her interests include family resilience, informed decision-making about autism intervention, and contributing to the development and implementation of state policies that impact the autism community and the professionals who support them. She currently serves as the Government Affairs Chair of the New Jersey Association for Behavior Analysis, is a member of the New Jersey Psychological Associations Committee on Legislative Affairs, and is the co-author of Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism: An Introduction and other agency publications.

Robert Naseef, Ph.D. has practiced for over 25 years as a psychologist. He is the father of an adult son with autism. He is a graduate of Temple University specializing in families of children with disabilities. He has published numerous articles and written two books: Special Children, Challenged Parents: The Struggles and Rewards of Parenting a Child with a Disability, (1997) and Autism in the Family. Caring and Coping Together (2012) Dr. Naseef co-edited, Voices From The Spectrum (2006) with Dr. Ariel. Dr. Naseef presents locally and nationally on issues related to family life with special needs and has a special interest in the psychology of men www.alternativechoices.com .