Next meeting is already here. March 9th at 7:00 in the basement of Lutheran Hospital in function room 4. We are going to be doing a panel of 2 teenagers and 2 adults with Aspergers or high functioning Autism. They will be prepared to answer some questions that were preset and also will be willing to answer questions from the group.
Hope to see all of you there, I am looking forward to it.
Next meeting is Feb. 9th at 7:00pm in function room 4 at Lutheran Hospital.
Our speake is Gordon F. Holmes, Jr.,CFP, ChFC, CLU. He is a Senior Financial Services Executive that specializes in estate planning for families of children and other dependents with special needs.
He is a good one to answer questions regarding medicaid or financials in your son or daughters name. He is driving in from Indy. I hope to see all of you there.
Kara Skaggs
Thanks once again for great attendance at the last meeting. If anybody wants any of the information that was talked about and can’t find it please let me know and I will try to help. I thought that that camp R.O.C.K.S. sounded really cool.
Kara
The speaker for the next meeting, January 12th is Susan Pieples, President of Autism Society of Indiana.
I will also be giving more information about the social groups that I am starting at the beginning of February.
I hope to see you all there Monday night at 7:00.
Kara Skaggs
I had a parent e-mail me this question. Does anybody have any suggestions for her?
My daughter with Aspergers is 14 and is too old for childcare, although she complains about being very lonely, when she is at home over any of the school breaks. Do you happen to know if there is a service out there, where I can provide her with some sort of relief?
Thanks, Kara Skaggs
I hope everybody had a great Christmas! I was finally able to get back in my house on Christmas Eve. We were very lucky we didn’t have any pipes bust just a mess to clean up in our yard. I can handle that!
I hope everybody has a safe and healthy New Year!
Kara
Crazy Pinz was a great success! Everybody had a good time. I hope to have a few social outings per year like that and could use suggestions on times and places to have it. To everybody that attended, thank you for taking the time out of the busy Christmas season to come join me at Crazy Pinz. A lot of families were able to make connections with others which is the purpose of these outings. Thanks for all your support on getting this group started.
Kara
I just spoke to the owner of Crazy Pinz. He forgot to let me know that it’s quarter night on Sunday. This means that hot dogs, wings, pop, bowling and I think putt-putt is only .25 cents. This will be great on the wallets! It sounds like our “home base” will be the restaurant. Hope to see you there!!!!
Kara
The speaker for the next meeting, January 12th is Susan Pieples, President of Autism Society of Indiana. She is going to talk on one of or all three of these topics:
1.) What the Autism Society of Indiana does for families/individuals 2.) Why your legislator needs to know who you are 3.) "Good Grief...handling the roller coaster of raising a child with an ASD"
http://www.inautism.org
I hope everybody was able to take away some new information that they didn’t know before. I know that the medicaid waiver is very confusing. Sue is a great resource, feel free to call or e-mail she is very knowledgeable. Everybody’s situation is different.
CRAZY PINZ! I am hoping for a good turn out this Sunday at 5:30 (Dec. 14th). It is going to be very informal. My goal is to get families connected to each other. We will have a private room as a “home base.”
CIRCUS! Thursday January 22, 2008 at 10:15. It is absolutely free unless you purchase from the concession stand. I need a head count very soon. I will aslo send an e-mail for you to reply to. We would all have seats together.
Kara