Maintaining relationships, building life skills, love and sexuality, securing a job, moving into an apartment – these normal rites of passage can be daunting for a young person with autism or Asperger Syndrome.
These and other challenges of growing up autistic will be explored in a conference to be held May 15-16, 2006 at the Hamilton Convention Centre, Hamilton, Ontario.
Presented by The Offord Centre for Child Studies and Woodview Children's Centre, Stages of Autism: Adolescence & Beyond will bring together parents, educators, service providers and healthcare practitioners from across Canada to hear experts in child and adolescent mental health discuss some of the most pressing issues facing teens and adults with autism.
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Dr. Peter Szatmari, Director of the Offord Centre for Child Studies and a world renowned expert in the study of autism, will open the conference with his keynote address discussing the many challenges faced by children with autism as they mature into adolescence and adulthood.
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Dr. Susan Bryson: Mental Health, Social Isolation
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Tuesday’s keynote address will feature Dr. Susan Bryson, Professor & Craig Chair in Autism Research, Department of Pediatrics at IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She will address the problems of social isolation and bullying, key contributors to anxiety and depression in youth with ASD, and suggest ways to detect and prevent them.
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