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Autism Society of Florida
United States
Приєднався 1 бер 2019
The Autism Society of Florida is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) comprised entirely of volunteers, parents of people with autism and adults with autism. We are an affiliate of the Autism Society of America. For 33 years, we have been working to ensure full participation and self-determination in every aspect of life for people across the autism spectrum. We work every day to empower lives by opening avenues of self-advocacy and advocating on behalf of others in a way that values equity, respect, dignity and diversity in all communities.
Offering Perspectives of Females on the Spectrum
Females with autism often go unidentified until adulthood, which sets them up for a childhood riddled with anxiety brought on by masking and bullying. In this episode, hosts Michelle Zeman and Conrad Blaze share a candid conversation about some of those challenges and offer some tips to assist families as they seek to support their daughters, nieces, granddaughters and female loved ones.
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What Military Families Need to Know
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Military families of children and adults with autism face a whole host of challenges that go above and beyond what most of us are accustomed to facing. Relocations on a normal basis - new school systems, homes, neighbors, recreation, therapists.... you name it, all contribute to the hardships of this particular community. We hope that this video by 2 incredible woman, Carla Mercer and Carmen Br...
47. Masking in Autism
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In this podcast, self advocates Michelle Zeman and Conrad Blaze give their personal experience in masking and how it can take its toll.
Nonspeakers Rise Up - Elizabeth Bonker
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Nonspeakers Rise Up - Elizabeth Bonker
Are Students with Autism Safe in Public Schools?
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Students with autism are way too often victims of mistreatment in schools. This compilation of newsreels from recent happenings will offer some insight into the need for advocacy in this area.
What You Need to Know to Safeguard Your Kids Against Elopement
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Research tells us that 48% of children with autism wander from safety, although we believe it to be much higher, but yet under-reported. In this presentation given at the #familycafe, we hear from disability advocate, Steve Moyer, and Angelsense representative, Jeannie Callahan, as they share steps that you can take to create safer spaces for your kids.
Why Autism Acceptance w/Conrad Blaze
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In this episode, we hear from self-advocate, Conrad Blaze as he shares the difference between awareness and acceptance, and why acceptance is so much more meaningful.
Emergency Situations Call for Advanced Planning
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Having medical information that's easily accessible to first responders is SO IMPORTANT to those with autism, as well as other medication conditions like epilepsy - which is found in more than 35% of those with autism. Equally important is for Mom or Dad to have medical jewelry on their own body, in case they become incapacitated during an accident with their child in the back seat, who may be ...
Parents of Children with Autism push for Cameras in Classrooms after Teacher Arrested
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Parents of Children with Autism push for Cameras in Classrooms after Teacher Arrested
Teacher Caught on Camera Tying Up Child with Autism
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As we spent this week in our state’s capital advocating for cameras in classrooms, this tragic story comes out about a 7 year old boy with autism who was tied to a chair at his public school. The teacher and para took turns sitting on the chair to keep him from moving. The only reason we even know about this is because there was a CAMERA on the playground. There is no expectation that this chil...
Bike to the Beach 2024
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🚴♂️🏊♀️🌊 ❤️ WE RIDE TO SAVE LIVES! 97 children died from drowning in Florida last year. We are working hard to make a difference by providing #CPR classes and door alarms to parents, grants to autism swim programs and training to swim instructors on how to teach kids w autism. Donating to our Bike to the Beach team is a great way to help us save lives AND bring attention to this huge issue for...
ASF 2024 Legislative Adv 101
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Things you need to know about this legislative session - 2024
How Labels in Autism Have Changed
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Labels might be something that's meant for shirts, or even jars, but unfortunately they're also a pathway to accessing services. Maybe one day that will change, but for now, it's what we have. That's why it's important to know and understand what they are and why they have changed over the last ten years. Access No Limits Global here - NOT TO BE MISSED :) - No Limits Global. www.autismfl.org/no...
How to Make a Caregiver Friendly Workplaces
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We count on our workplaces to give us support. This episode explains what makes a workplace a supportive atmosphere for parents of kids with autism. No Limits Global here. www.autismfl.org/no-limits-global Blog here www.autismfl.org/blog-1
How to Be a Friend to Someone with Autism
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To get a friend you have to be a friend. In this episode we talk about ways to become friends with a person with autism. No Limits Global access. www.autismfl.org/no-limits-global Blog access here www.autismfl.org/blog-1
Steps to Developing True Friendships
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Steps to Developing True Friendships
Creating a Sensory Friendly Environment
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Creating a Sensory Friendly Environment
No Limits Global - Changing Lives Every Day
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No Limits Global - Changing Lives Every Day
Importance of Art for Those with Autism
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Importance of Art for Those with Autism
I have a question: My wife and i have a 2 year old daughter. We live in Colorado. She was in Children's Hospital for 9 months. She had heart surgery, still needs a new pulmonary valve. She has a tracheotomy and on ventilator, she has a feeding machine, she has a syndrome and CP. We are on medicade waiver and are her paid 24/7 caregivers because no home health here that want the responsibility. But we are all by ourselves. No family here. We want to move to Florida because my wife had a sister there. My daughter will hopefully be off the ventilator in about 1 year. But might have tracheotomy for long time and pulmonary valve surgery sometime also. Is it possible to move to Florida and keep her waiver? Will she automatically be able to have Medicare? Do we have to become resident first, then apply? Will my daughter loose her medicade during the move to Florida? Any advice
Is the medicaid waiver the same as applying for APD services?
I wonder do they seek out water? Or what’s the longest distance from where they where last seen? 😢 Odd yet very interesting Horrible 😢😢😢
Fabulous video. Thank you so much. Should have done this 10 yrs ago. This stuff is so complicated and yet you broke it down nicely.
You are such a lifesaver for posting this. Thank you!!!
Thank you soo much for this video. I have two children with disabilities that are including in these list of elegible diagnosis and yet have been trying for over a year to get my children into the waiting list and the regional office never answers the phone. This video finally helped me find the application. thank you.
OH good, glad it helped. It's so confusing :(
Is this only for autism?
My sister has an acquired brain injury as of two years ago and she is 41. The APD excludes her to my understanding because she doesn’t have a developmental disability she was born with…. So how can I get her services at a group home if she does not have a born with disability?
She has Medicaid already.
APD Is for dev. and intellectual disabilities. Check with the hospital social worker where she had gone for the TBI. They would be able to offer resources.
Thank you this was so helpful. 🙏😃
Sounds disturbing. Teachers and staff should all be trained better - and not abuse ANYONE! I just turned 31 and have autism myself too, but lots of people treat me very nicely.
I guess it’s tempting.
Unfortunately nowadays she is a typical teacher not much in the way of mental capacity
If an autistic is extremely disruptive, and parents object to measures teacher has to take in order to maintain classroom = then parents need to take responsibility for incorrigible child: stay home and homeschool, pay for private tutoring. BUT: do not berate teacher whose responsibility is too welfare of ALL her students: unrealistic and unfair to blame teacher.
You have to have endless patience and have the right type of personality to teach children, especially children with disabilities or handicaps. I couldn't handle it, she should have known better and chosen a different career.
How could a teacher treat a child so vad🤥😭🥵😡🤬
I got a question what if the hospital gave your son drugs and lied. Said you was the one who gave him drugs but it on their paperwork since he was born. Everytime they give your son a vaccine they give him a drugs they claim it was a vaccine?
I once worked at a preschool for a very short time before leaving as i couldn't take the administration snd how they treated the kids. Ine of the teachers told me before i started working there their administrators tied a childs feet to the chair w his shoe laces. I was mortified, i quite that day and im happy to say they are now shut down. 😢crazy people, never be too careful w wear you place your child. Even if they have camera's
In eighth grade, the teachers in my 0 period class trapped us in the classroom, locked us in, and physically grabbed us and pulled us into the classroom, and they never got in trouble. This is unacceptable!
Many of these teachers aren’t trained to care for these children. Many parents must also work with their child’s pediatrician to consider small doses of medication to address agitation. Especially as they go into puberty. Children with autism start to show signs of agitation around puberty 7 and up. Also, behavioral management must be considered. The key is early diagnosis with ABA speech and behavioral therapy. Many parents are in denial. There is an large and growing autism community.
Another case of hiring unqualified personal. Federal school system is a joke. We should do away with the department of education.
Ummmm cameras in the classroom please. Parents if your nonverbal child is acting bothered from the day at school or their behavior changes drastically most of the time the teacher is not telling you the truth about the tveir day.
As a mom with an autistic child this is beyond horrible I have gotten school staff fired because teachers thinking these kids aren't worth much and treat them badly ...makes so mad
Shameful.
Sad the schools are not equipped to deal with special needs kids , those kids need to be somewhere they can be looked after in a proper way, one teacher and an aid trying to deal with mutiple kids , with special needs get overwhelming when they get a kid who needs 1 on 1 supervision thing get un manageable for the teacher
Those teachers need to lose their certification and be sent to jail for several years!
I home school my nonverbal autistic son because he was being abused at school. This is more common than people like to think. Just look at how our disabled and elderly are treated in residential care homes. Predators love finding jobs where they can abuse the vulnerabilities of others.
What are teachers and their assistants supposed to do with a child who is putting themselves or others in danger? Restraining is a response to dangerous behavior. I highly doubt they just decided to restrain him for no reason. It is awful that both students and teachers are not supported by a system that requires our public schools by law to educate and manage the behaviors of children who often cannot handle the school environment. All the people calling for long prison sentences for teachers should try being one for a day. Parents send kids to school with problems they themselves cannot handle at home and then expect a teacher who is responsible not only for the education but also the safety of an entire classroom to manage their out of control child. Teachers are forced to put themselves and other students at risk and then face lawsuits and prison time for trying to keep everyone safe. All you teacher bashers have no clue. A non verbal child sometimes simply does not belong in a typical school setting. So starting the story with “teachers tie up a non verbal child” automatically paints the teachers as sadistic abusers. I have compassion for kids with disabilities but some not only should not be mainstreamed but are being traumatized just by the experience of being there and not learning much. Often these kids are so distressed just coming to school it is a battle to get them off the bus. It is time to rethink our education policies regarding kids with intense needs-everyone’s education is suffering under the current plan.
What was the child doing was the child trying to destroy the classroom or what
Straight up abuse and assault.
Guess what? That teacher isn’t black, brown or Hispanic. 🤔
Are they completely ignorant!! What in their right mind made them think this would be ok!
Video??
You never ever restraint a child. I work with children on the ASD. It's been 27, years. We have never restrained a child. We have Professional Development courses every year about this. What the heck is wrong with them? The sad thing is if they were so comfortable doing this in front of a camera. What are they doing where cameras aren't around?
How sad! Now he is traumatized.
Well they do get out of control,so keep them home, you had them n chose to deal with that,not every one else
And sensory rooms are in every classroom
Time to open special PUBLIC schools for non verbal kids- and all the kids on the spectrum that are driving teachers to the brink of insanity! Teachers don't get paid enough to provide all the extra "specialized" care for so many differently abled kids. What the yeachers did was absolutely wrong & dispicable- I've also seen parents of these spectrum kids do a helluva lot worse! They expect teachers to deal with it 🤷
I have a six-year-old, nonverbal, autistic, son, and this in rages me this is exactly why I don’t want to put my child in school
Aweee poor baby! 😢
A lot of these kids just are never disciplined
What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just wait untill they go to jail!! That’s when the true discipline it will happen!!
Satan public schools. Love ur kids teach them home
Who’s mentally ill? School boards is.
Why do so many kids have autism . Please dnt drink and smoke while being pregnant
What kind of people works there you don't kids like that let the teachers go and never let them work with kids and not our older people they are evil shame on you all. I hope the family puts you m in prison. Our kids are the sunshine of our life's so keep your hands off them..
As someone with autism..this makes me sick to my stomach they should be fired and their certifications revoked that’s horrible
Sad this happened to the child. However, have any of you dealt with an autistic child that’s screaming like a devil and won’t stop? Or being physically combative toward you or other students? If so how did you stop the child? Did you, restrain the child? Sometimes you have to to be honest.I’ve worked in the emergency room how do you deal with these kids? You tie them up in a papoose. And you give them drugs. True story
This geacher was , obvously,not trying to implodve his behavkor. Stgupiud thing tol say.Have you ever seen an autistic kid have in a meltdown? Have you felt safe about the other kids around him.?THis teacher should have called for hel,p from other teachers or a counselor who had some expertise in such difficullt moments..which could have resulted ininjury to other kids nearby. Special training for special needs kids!!!!
And that’s why I could never deal with kids like that. Because I’d 100% do the same thing lol
I feel for these teachers in a horrible situation. A male presence might have helped