!!!!!Celebrating Siblings!!!!!

Sign up for the 2013 Siblings Day!

This is a special event for the brothers and sisters of children with disabilities. 

Saturday, April 13th

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Edgewood College - The Stream

Madison, WI

The program is open to the siblings of children with disabilities currently in kindergarten through 12th grade. 

Cost is $7 per child and includes a pizza lunch for children and family.  Join us and help siblings understand why they're more special then they'll ever know. 

Call (608) 442-5555 to register your child today!

Please RSVP by Friday, April 5th.

     

Self-advocacy Interview

Kerry Magro ( 25, is a National Motivational Speaker and Award Winning Autism Self-Advocate. Kerry was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at the age of 4. Today along with speaking frequently around the U.S. about his life on the spectrum also works as a column writer for Autism After 16 and Co-Host of Autism Radio.) dishes on organization, his start on the autism self-advocacy journey, high school advice and more in this interview, conducted via email by 11 year-old Alexander Ownby.

http://www.theautismeducationsite.com/2013/02/25/kerry-magro-on-organization-autism-self-advocacy-and-more-interview/

"The Whole Nine Yards"...are they equal to 27 feet?

What kind of an umbrella do you use when it's raining cats and dogs???

People with Autism are often literal thinkers, thus making idioms problematic and confusing in conversation, literature, etc.

If you had no idea of what these idioms meant, how do you think you might interpret them?

• Get a grip
• At the eleventh hour
• Don’t get bent out of shape
• My arm is killing me
• At death’s door
• On it’s last legs
• If the shoe fits

If you've never thought about how many idioms are embedded into things people say, check out the collection of over 10, 000 of them in the latest edition of 

The American Heritage Dictionary Of Idioms

Here's an interview with the author:

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/28/173060110/dictionary-of-idioms-gets-everybody-on-the-same-page

And food for thought for strategies to help with the presence of idioms:

http://suite101.com/article/teaching-idioms-to-pupils-with-asd-a24219

Postsecondary Education Resources

This webpage is rich with resources brought to us from the:

Community of Practice on Autism Spectrum Disorders and other Developmental Disabilities Autism Program Support Teachers Meeting,  October 9, 2012
in the area of 

Building Capacity in Postsecondary Education for Students with ASD/DD 

https://www.waisman.wisc.edu/connections/pdfs/Website_resources.pdf