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 Evanston Citizens for Appropriate Special Education (CASE) provides Community, Advocacy, Support and Education for families of students with special needs.
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Hello Evanston CASE community,
Please join us for our January Parent Connections Support Group meetings:
Evening Parent Connections Support Group Meeting
January 13th 7:00-9:00 pm at 1940 Sherman, Suite A. in Evanston.
Brown Bag Lunch Parent Connections Support Group Meeting
January 20th 11:30-1:00 at 1940 Sherman Ave. Suite A in Evanston.
Let us know you are coming by calling (847) 556-8676. Drop-in's are welcome.
I hope you find the information in this newsletter informative and interesting. If you have ideas for content you would like to see, let me know at mail@evanstoncase.org.
Warm regards,
Cari Levin, LCSW
Founding Director
Evanston CASE
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Autism-Friendly Theatre Adventure
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Chicago Children's Theater's Red Kite Adventure Tour sponsored by the Skokie Public Library
"Red Kite Brown Box" An autism-friendly theater adventure is being offered by the Skokie Public Library on Saturday, January 9th, in 30 minute shows, starting at 1:30, 2:30 and 4 pm. at 5215 Oakton Street in Skokie.
"What child doesn't love playing with cardboard boxes? In this live theatrical experience, actors gently guide children with special needs on an interactive journey into a home filled with empty boxes just waiting to be explored."
For kids ages 5-12 with an adult caregiver. Please call 847-673-7774 to register. Additional family members may attend with the registered child.
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This is an interesting, interactive and informative exercise offered by Understood.com.
"It's one thing to read about learning and attention issues. It's another thing to see them through your child's eyes. Experience first-hand how frustrating it is when your hand won't write what your brain is telling it to. Or how hard it is to complete a simple task when you have trouble focusing. Use these unique simulations and videos to better understand your child's world."
You can tailor the simulation according to the child's grade and type of learning challenge. A video by a child with that profile will play. Afterwards you can choose to do a simulation of what a child with this profile experiences.
To check it out, click HERE
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"Attentional Dysregulation"
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Hyperfocus: The Flip Side of ADHD? Thinking about dysregulation, not deficit, of attention.
From ChildMind.org
An Excerpt:
But focusing intently isn't always a good thing. Dr. Hallowell would call Andy's tendency to lose himself in a television screen not hyperfocus, or flow, but "screen sucking." Flow is "optimal," he says. Screen sucking is more like "stupor." But what connects them is they are both different modes of intense attention. ADHD, Dr. Hallowell says, is not a deficit of attention but "an abundance of attention, a wandering of attention, and the problem is to regulate it. People with ADD can pay super attention, but when they're not interested their mind goes somewhere else."
To read the entire article, click HERE
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Texting as a Tool to Increase Communication
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A guest post on AutismSpeaks.org by a young woman who experiences a closer relationship with her younger brother who has ASD via texting.
"I knew this was the beginning of us getting to know each other on another level. No longer were the barriers of unstructured, fast-paced, in-person social interactions a problem. C.J. could think about what he was going to say in his own time, and then write it out without trying to conform to a certain way of communicating."
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