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 CASE offers many services that help children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Asperger's Syndrome. Recently, Friends' Club (our social skills group)  has been in the news around San Diego County because of the release of Dr. Norall's (Friends' Club's Developer) book, Quirky, Yes-Hopeless, No. CASE offers Friends' Clubs in 4 different locations:

  • Carlsbad (North County San Diego), CA

  • Oahu, Hawaii

  • Napa, California

  • The Sunshine Coast, B.C. Canada

If you are interested in developing a group, hearing Dr. Norall speak about Friends' Club and her Award Winning Book or joining a Friends' Club group, please email maria.lyon@casefamily.com or call our offices at (760) 720-4964 for more information. 

 

For more information on CASE services, please refer to the "Our Services" tab above for a brief description. 

2009 San Diego Book of the Year award in the category of Non-Fiction/Education

 

QUIRKY, YES—HOPELESS, NO

Practical Tips to Help Your Child With Asperger's Syndrome Be More Socially Accepted

 

By Cynthia La Brie Norall, Ph.D., with Beth Wagner Brust

St. Martin’s Press
Visit Website: www.QuirkyYes.com
 
We are so proud of both Dr. Norall and Beth Brust to have received this prestigious award!
 
 
 
 

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San Diego's North County Times article features Dr. Cynthia Norall's new book

Click here for Article titled "Making quirky cool: Club for kids with Asperger's inspires new parenting book", Story Discussion By Patricia Morris Buckley, For the North County Times, March 17, 2010

 sneak preview...

By PATRICIA MORRIS BUCKLEY - For the North County Times | Posted: March 17, 2010 12:01 am 

Beth Wagner Brust knows there are few things more difficult than watching your child struggle to make friends. Her youngest son, Ben, was diagnosed with ADHD in kindergarten, but by third grade he still didn't have any friends.

"My pediatrician said he had Asperger's," explained Brust, a Carmel Valley resident. Asperger's is considered a higher form of autism that makes social interaction, among other things, difficult. "Like any parent, I was thrown for a loop. Then I heard about the Friends Club in Carlsbad."

The Friends Club is a safe, non-threatening and non-stressful environment where kids with Asperger's get together to learn the "unwritten" social skills. Now it's inspired Brust and Cynthia La Brie Norall, Ph.D., to write "Quirky, Yes — Hopeless, No: Practical Tips to Help Your Child with Asperger's Syndrome Be More Socially Accepted" (St. Martin's Griffin).

Asperger's children are often the kids who are bullied, sit alone at lunch and rarely get an invitation to a birthday party. But at the club, they learn such skills as making eye contact, greeting people, letting others talk about their interests and being less rigid through games, breaking skills into baby steps and role playing.

By learning the subtle social cues that typical children take for granted, they can begin making friends. And that's exactly what happened with Ben.

"By the end of the first year, I heard him ask another kid, 'Am I boring you?' and I almost fell over," recalled Brust. "I'd never heard him say that before. It was amazing to see that growth in six months."

The Friends Club was the brainchild of Norall, an educational behavior psychologist. While working at a preschool in Valley Center in 1992, she first encountered children with autism. That's around the time that autism diagnoses began to rise dramatically. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 out of every 100 8-year-olds is autistic.

"I just found this population fascinating," Norall said. "I went to every seminar and conference I could on autism. I really wanted to help them."

For more, click here to be directed to the North County Times

Friends' Club -Carlsbad Session E Week 4

Friends' Club report Cards went out the last week of Session E. Parents picked them up in the waiting room. If you did not receive your child's report card, please visit the Office Management Team at the check in window in suite 101. 
 

Friends Club 2009-2010
Session E - Week 4
 
 
MONDAY
 
Junior Groups: Today in Friends' Club we talked about ourselves and our likes and dislikes for the purposes of discriminating between where we have similarities and where we have differences. One insight we learned is that our friends love to look at our similarities and find it really cool when we share common interests. Thanks friends and see you next week.  
 
Teens/Young Adults: Today at friends club we focused on what makes us who we are by discussing things that we enjoy and what we would like to become when we are older. We did this for the purpose of remembering facts and preferences about each other so that we can have conversations with them. We discussed why it is important to remember things like this when we meet new people. One insight we learned is that our friends understand that remembering things about people is a good way to show that you are interested in them and what they have to say. We also learned that our friends are great at remembering facts about each other and asking appropriate follow up questions.   
 
 
TUESDAY
 
Tonight we focused on having the boys identify 5 of their characteristics for the purpose of finding similarities in each other. One insight we learned is that most of the boys were able to guess who's answers were being read out loud right away which means that they are portraying themselves to their friends accurately. YAY!
 
 
WEDNESDAY
 
Younger Friends - Today, we continued our exploration of superhero characteristics, focusing on identifying characteristics of our friends (instead of ourselves) so we could hear how others perceive us. We learned that our girls like to choose "good" characteristics (nice, smart) about each other, while our boys liked to choose "mischievous" characteristics (sneaky).

 

 

 

 

Friends' Club Time Schedule:

Mondays

Little Kiddos with Michelle, Jeff and Laura:

3:30-4:30pm

4:45-5:45pm

Pre- Teens and Adults with Jeff, Brian, and Matt M.

6:00-7:00pm

7:00-8:00pm

 

Tuesdays

In betweeners and Teens with Amber and Kristin:

4:45-5:45pm

6:00-7:00pm


Wednesdays

Little Kiddos and Inbetweeners with Lauren and Ashley:

3:30-4:30pm

4:45-5:45pm

Teens with Ashley and Evan

6:00-7:00pm

 

To Join Friends' Club, Please call our offices to schedule an initial consult with Dr. Norall. 
 

Friends' Club

Dear Parents, 

Your child's/teen's group day and time has been finalized. Please look for your Friends' Club post card in the mail to determine when your child will be attending group.

 

We look forward to seeing your children/teen in Friends' Club!

 

Sincerely, 
CASE
 

Friends' Club begins the week of September 13, 2010!

We start back up the week of September 13, 2010. To sign up for our upcoming year, registration forms and the yearly calendar is located below.  Groups fill up fast! To ensure your child spot in group, it is best to sign up early.


 

For Friends' Club summaries, please select the C.A.S.E., Inc. Office below:

For Friends' Club Forms, please select the following:

 

 


To register for Friends' Club, please call our offices or email Maria.lyon@casefamily.com

Hawaii is  accepting new students for Friends' Club Hawaii. Please email Kimee at Kimeemartinez@casefamily.com or call the Hawaii office at (808) 779-8883.

 

 

 

Distorted Obstruct Soul: Culture and Mentality

One question I had was how culture correlates to psychological health. 

If one person born of one culture, was raised by rules of a second culture, and then had interests for a third culture, would those cultures contradict in terms of psychological health?

I may have a slight clue of the answer but still not sure if it's true. It came up around Health 101, yet cannot convey til now. Think about that very question for a while.

SMelendrez

        
        Sergio Melendrez was born  in San Diego and has lived here all his life. He received a B.S. in Kinesiology from CSU San Bernardino where he also played baseball. After graduation he played two years of professional baseball for the Mexican team, Nogales Internationals. Sergio has two years of ABA experience.  In his spare time he enjoys watching baseball and football games with his family, listening to music and helping people. He hopes to one day win the lottery!

 

Resources & Links

Organizations
National Autism Association www.nationalautismassociation.org
Autism Society of America www.autism-society.org
Autism Specialists
Tony Attwood www.tonyattwood.com.au
Michelle Winner Garcia www.socialthinking.com
Cynthia Norall, Ph.D. www.cynthianorall.com
Non-profits
Autism Services Foundation, (ASF) www.autismservicesfdn.org
Parent Support
Team of Advocates for special kids www.taskca.org
Sara Frampton, Ph.D. and Allan Roth, MS ED - Ph. (858) 755-7843
Blogs
wrongplanet.net
www.onedadsopinion.blogspot.com
 
Local San Diego, CA Clinical Psychologists
Dr. Sarah Turner- Ph.D. (Integrative Psychological Services) (760) 929-2737

Local San Diego, CA Child Psychiatrists
Dr. Joshua Feder - Ph. (858) 509-0523
Dr. Robert Friedman (PsyCare) - Ph. (858) 279-1223

Local San Diego, CA Pediatricians
Dr. Sarita Eastman- Ph. (858) 259-2950
Dr. Nick Levy and Kati Enright (Successful Solutions) - Ph. (760) 753-2396
Dr. Suzanne Mills- Ph. (858) 481-1151
Dr. Ben Spiegel- Ph. (858) 764-3000

Resources - San Diego, CA
Occupational therapists/ Speech and Language Therapists
Vicky Golden (Golden Steps- Occupational Therapy) www.goldenstepspediatric@yahoo.com
The Speech Station and Leaps and Bounds (both)  www.thespeechstation.com
Chris Vinceneux (Occupational Therapy) - Ph. (858) 268-8585 www.schooloptionssandiego.com

San Diego Regional Center- SDRC.org

Parent Support Groups
San Diego Chapter ASA www.sd-autism.org
www.valerieslist.com
Short term residential care
Aurora Behavioral Health Care www.aurorabehavioral.com/sandiego
Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital www.sharp.com/hospital
Educational Resources and Special Education Planning Areas
Childrens Garden www.barefooteducation.org
San Marcos Lutheran Preschool www.sanmarcoslutheran.org
Pioneer Day School www.pioneerdayschool.org
Balboa City School www.balboaschool.com
Brain Highways www.brainhighways.com
Neurologists
Dr. Mark Nespeca (Children's Hospital) - Ph. (858) 966-5819
Dr. Doris Trauner (Nuerodevelopmental Disability/Pediatrics)- Ph. (858) 657-8540
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Therapists
Jim Hatton, Ph.D. - Ph. (858) 457-8428
Daniel Blaess, Ph.D. - Ph. (619) 804-1669
Dentists
Children's Hospital- Ph. (800) 778-9029
Tom Keller- (760) 635-3478
Donald Geber (619) 588-2888

Resources - Napa, Ca
Solano Parenting Partnership www.childnet.org/parenting
Matrix Parent Network www.matrixparents.org

Resources- Oahu, HI 
TIFFE- The Institute For Family Enrichment www.tiffe.org/
Children's Community Council- www.ccco.k12.hi.us/

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