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The Help Group - UCLA Semel Summer Institute 2007 Convenes Leading Experts In Asperger's Disorder

(PRWEB) July 10, 2007 -- The Help Group - UCLA Semel Institute on "Asperger's Disorder: Best Practices in Education" is scheduled for Wednesday, July 18 through Friday, July 20 at The Help Group Sherman Oaks Campus. Designed for educational and related professionals, this intensive three-day, interactive workshop on best practices in educating children and adolescents with Asperger's Disorder, will feature Help Group and UCLA educators, researchers and clinicians.

Institute Chairs are Dr. Barbara Firestone, Help Group President and CEO and Dr. David Feinberg, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Event Program Chair is Dr. Laurie Stephens, Director of The Help Group Autism Spectrum Disorders Programs.

Workshop highlights include a comprehensive overview of Asperger's Disorder, common educational stumbling blocks and effective remediation strategies, the latest research findings and implications for educational practice, and interactive sessions focusing on social skills training and behavior modification in the classroom.

The three-day workshop offers 22 Continuing Education Credits. Schedule of Workshop hours are approximately between 8:00a.m. - 5:30p.m. Cost of all three days is $275.

INSTITUTE FACULTY INCLUDE:

Mary Bauman, Ph.D., Clinical Coordinator, Village Glen School

Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Pamela Clark, M.A., Director, Village Glen, Bridgeport & Sunrise Schools

Limor Dankner, M.Ed., Principal, The Pace Program of Village Glen School

Melinda Docter, Ed.D., Elementary/Middle School Principal, Village Glen School

Philip Levin, Ph.D., Program Director, The Help Group - UCLA Neuropsychology Program

Bhavik Shah, M.D., Medical Director, ABC Child Partial Program, Resenick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA

Laurie Stephens, Ph.D., Director, Autism Spectrum Disorders Programs

GUEST PRESENTERS INCLUDE:

Emily Iland, B.A., Co-author of Autism Spectrum Disorders from A to Z

Lisa Iland, Contributing author to Asperger's and Girls

Jay Lytton, Former Village Glen Student and Current UC Davis Honor's Student

Registration is available on line at www.thehelpgroup.org or for more information please call Cheryl Raver at (818) 779-5212.

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