Past 2010 Events
AASCEND’s Annual Holiday Potluck Party – December 11th
Location: The Arc of San Francisco
We shared some food and drink! Friends, family members and children all attended. We will celebrated AASCEND’s successes over the past year and learned about very exciting program and conference news for 2011.
November 20th AASCEND Meeting
Demo- Book Club Discussion – “Aspergirls”
Book club Discussion of Aspergirls written by San Francisco author, Rudy Simone was held. Information on getting the book is on her website, help4aspergers.com.
October 16th AASCEND Meeting
Demo- Drama Therapy/Non-Violent Communication
Liz McDonough and Bob Yamtich gave presentation about New Approaches in Aspergers: Non-Violent Communication and Drama Therapy with live demonstrations! . Our friend Robyn Steward, autism advocate from England, dropped by to say hello.
September Events
AASCEND and Camilla Bixler were honored on Friday, September 24th by…
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities at their Gala Fundraiser, A Night in North Beach.
September 11: AASCEND staffed the table at the “Connecting People to Resources” event, from 9:00 am-2:00 pm at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA
September 28: AASCEND Panel spoke at the September Meeting of the Autism Professional Circle at the Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf. The address is 3518 Jefferson Avenue. Redwood City, CA 94062
August General Meeting
Thanks to Rudy Simone, author of Aspergirls and Asperger’s on the Job…
for being at our August meeting and giving away tickets to the SF Female AS Event on Sept. 18, 6-10 PM, more info at: www.CelebrateFemaleASD.com
Rudy says: “If anyone else wants to purchase my books, please direct them to my site and tell them to write AASCEND in the message box when they purchase and I will refund postage. It will work out to the same price as Amazon as I’m not charging tax either.”
Order Rudy’s Book(s)
Thank you also to Janis Oberman for leading our discussion on Aging and the Spectrum. Nice job Janis!
Annual AASCEND Picnic
On Saturday, July 17th,
from 12 noon – 3:00 pm in Dolores Park in San Francisco
Our community celebrated AASCEND’s Annual Picnic!!! All were welcome and it was well attended by both current and prospective members. We enjoyed food, beverages and each other’s company.
May 15th General Meeting
Thanks to Tree for explaining his mission to feed the hungry in San Francisco through urban gardening. He shared his perspectives on gardening, gleaning, community gardens as well as his personal wisdom. To learn more and read his blog, including his account of speaking at AASCEND, go to www.freefarmstand.org.
AASCEND’s 10th Anniversary Celebration
Thanks to everyone who made our Tenth Anniversary Celebration outstanding!
We had a roomful of people to appreciate great music, and applaud the AASCEND movie, directed and produced by William Davenport and the Autism Social Connection Film Group. State Senator Mark Leno was gracious and supportive of our mission and presented Aascend with a beautiful award. Guest of Honor Jack Fagan gave an inspiring speech reminding us that, ” Aascend needs all of us!” If you have pictures, please send them to us so we can post them on our website.
February 20th Meeting – Autism at the Movies
How Autism is Portrayed in Hollywood and on the Screen.
We will also discused the HBO special airing in February telling Temple Grandin’s inspirational life story. Also discussed were the DSM proposed changes regarding Asperger’s.
January 23rd Meeting
Greg Yates moderated an AASCEND meeting regarding sensory issues in Autism
Greg covered questions as to how sensory issues part of an individual’s autsim. We had a discussion about how these sensory affect:
- Vision
- Hearing
- Language Comprehension
- Eye Contact
- Social Interaction
Speaker at Close of Meeting
The San Francisco/Marin County Autism Housing Workforce Committee is interested in hearing from consumers on the spectrum in regards to housing needs and challenges.
Karen Kaplan, the chair of the Task Force Committee attended our meeting eager to obtain input on this very important issue. Her goal is to bring back the consumer’s point a few so that appropriate next steps can be taken to ensure appropriate housing options. She also asked that Bay Area adults with ASD email her at karensupportsU@comcast.net with suggestions regarding this housing task force.