Ernie Els - Autism Center of Excellence (Palm Beach County, FL)

"While Ernie competes in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach this week, plans are under way in Florida to create a Center of Excellence. Set on 15 acres in northern Palm Beach County, it will accommodate 300 full-time students with ASD, with 100,000 square feet of classrooms and state-of-the-art medical, research, and recreational facilities. "Autism touches each kid in a different way," Els says. "We'll be prepared to deal with ASD on all levels, and to give each kid--each person--the most effective individual treatment he or she can get."

"Due for completion in 2012, the center will be the largest and most comprehensive facility of its kind. Through the nonprofit Els for Autism Foundation, Ernie and have committed $6 million and raised an additional $4.6 million. A total of $30 million is needed. "

- Parade: Golfer Ernie Els: 'I've Got a Boy with Autism'




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• Ernie Els Official Site - Autism Intro - ErnieEls.com
  
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• PGA, Els Family Tee Up to Raise Awareness, Autism Speaks

Principal of Houma’s School for Exceptional Childre beat child with autism

Principal charged with beating student

The principal of Houma’s School for Exceptional Children has resigned amid the allegations.

HOUMA — The former principal of a school for mentally and physically disabled children faces a battery charge in connection with allegations that she beat a severely autistic 11-year-old child.

Sophia Seymore, 42, of Gibson, was issued a misdemeanor summons Friday for battery to the infirm after being questioned by Houma City Police detectives in the presence of an attorney.

Lt. Jude McElroy, a police spokesman, said the charge was lodged after consultation with the Terrebonne Parish District Attorney’s Office.

Seymore resigned Wednesday from her post at the Terrebonne Parish School for Exceptional Children. Neither police nor Terrebonne schools Superintendent Philip Martin would provide details of the alleged incident.

Christopher St. Martin, a Houma attorney, issued a statement confirming that his firm is representing the child and his parents “due to concerns that their child has been abused while under the school’s supervision.”

St. Martin said the child’s parents received an anonymous letter informing them that “the school’s principal had been physically and mentally abusive toward the severely autistic 11-year-old.”

The mother went to the Terrebonne Parish School Board and the Houma Police Department to make formal complaints, prompting investigations by both.

A School Board representative notified the parents, St. Martin said, that sufficient evidence was found to demand the principal resign or be terminated.

St. Martin said police told the parents that witnesses “indicated the principal put the child on the ground, got on the child’s back and repeatedly slammed his head onto a concrete floor.”

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Lathrop Elementary School 2nd Grader with Autism found in TRAFFIC

Someone at Lathrop Elementary School in Lathrop, CA dropped the ball in a huge way here.

Lathrop mom to school: Why was autistic daughter found in traffic?

Her mother Cristina Braun said she showed up to pick up her daughter Wednesday and was surprised to find her gone.

"I asked the teacher, 'Where's Isabella?' She threw up her arms and said she didn't know," Braun said.

Braun frantically searched the campus for several minutes until she saw Isabella standing in the middle of a busy street along side the school with cars whizzing by.

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The McCarton School

McCarton School

The McCarton School provides an educational program for autistic children by using an integrated one-to-one model of therapy that is grounded in Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) combined with speech and language therapy, motor skills training, and peer interaction.

The McCarton School
331 West 25th Street
New York, NY, 10001

Website: http://www.mccartonfoundation.org/

Telephone: 212.229.1715
Fax: 212.229.1731

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The Eden Institute

The Eden Institute

• 13631 Learning Court South
  
• Fort Myers, FL 33919
  
• (941) 437-5335 or 5336
  
• (941) 437-5337 (Fax)
• Send email

The Eden Family of Services

• One Eden Way
• Princeton, NJ 08540
• Telephone: (609) 987-0099
• Fax: (609) 987-0243
• Foundation fax: (609) 987-1346

Eden, a New Jersey-based nonprofit organization, was founded in 1975 with a mission to improve the lives of children and adults with autism and their families. Parents and professionals alike joined together to develop a family oriented, multifaceted program with a well-trained and dedicated faculty. Inherent in Eden's founding was the commitment to provide a cost-effective, community-based alternative to institutionalization and to offer programming that would meet the changing needs of children and adults with autism.

Stepping Stones (Center for Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Inc)

Stepping Stones (Center for Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Inc)

• PO Box 6637
  
• San Mateo, CA 94403
  
• (650) 357-0571
  
• (650) 357-0676 Fax
  
• Send email

Stepping Stones Center for Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Inc. (SSCASD) is a full-range human service agency dedicated to improving the lives of individuals diagnosed within the autism spectrum and other related disorders through the use of Applied Behavior Analysis principles informed by B.F. Skinner's philosophy of �Behaviorism.� We are committed to providing our professional staff with the highest level of training and supervision consistent with the research and cutting edge technology of this increasingly developing field. SSCASD also specializes in providing modified discrete trial therapy, inclusion support services, social skills training, incidental teaching and pivotal response training, speech-language therapy and occupational therapy to individuals diagnosed within the autism spectrum and other related disorders. Our goal for each individual is a more effective, independent and improved quality of life.

We have been and are guided by the principle that �the child�s needs and best interests come first.� Profits, personalities and other variables must be secondary in our mission. By keeping our clients� needs and best interests as our number one priority, all else will follow.