FACTx Schedule!

Thanks to all who attended in person or online.

If you would like to view some of the presentations, contact [email protected]

This was the full line-up:

October 14, 2016

8 to 9 AM        Check In/Welcome: Marc Haupert, Interim Executive Director

9: 00 AM         Linda Andron-Ostrow: Opening Remarks

9:45  AM        Susan Schmidt Lackner, MD: “Biomedical Interventions: Healing the Whole Child”

10: 20 AM        15 MINUTE BREAK

10:35 AM        Erika Jewell, LCSW: “Embracing Transition: Empowering and Supporting Youth”

11:00 AM        Sharon Hensel-Cohen, MSCCC/SLP: “Communication Challenges: Caused or Maintained  by Executive Function Weakness”

11:20 AM        Michelle Wolf: “Long-Term Planning and Special Needs Trust”

11:50 AM        Geborah Goldberger, PhD: “How and Why Enmeshment Happens”

12:10 PM         Nora Baladerian, PhD: “How to Reduce the Risk and Impact of Abuse”

12:30 PM        LUNCH

(Bring your own lunch or buy lunch from the food trucks or restaurants and eat with the speakers in the salon!)

1:30 PM          Nora Baladerian, PhD: ” What are the Rules of Sex?”

1:50 PM          Iris Maybruk, EdD: “Interpersonal Communication”

2:10 PM          Jessie L. Ginsburg, M.S., CCC-SLP: “Simple Steps to Social Skills Success”

2:30 PM         Sarita Freedman, PhD: “Foundations of Self-Advocacy”

3:00 PM         Dina Kaplan, JD: “Planning for the Transition to Adulthood for Your Child with Special Needs”

3:20 PM          10 MINUTE BREAK

3:30 PM         Debra Marcia, JD: “What is OCRA?”

4:00 PM         Ivor Weiner, PhD: “Transition and Autism: The Real-Life Experience”

4:30 PM           FRIDAY WRAP UP

October 15, 2016

8 to 9 AM        Check In/Welcome: Marc Haupert, Interim Executive Director

9: 00 AM         “Our Journey Continues”: Panel with Linda Andron-Ostrow

10:00 AM        Fran Goldfarb, MA, MCHES, CPSP: “Learning to Let Go: Fostering Independence in Your Transition Aged Child”

10: 20 AM       Pamela Arturi: “Employment First”

10:35 AM         Harri O’Kelley: “A Parent’s Journey Through School District Services”

10: 45 AM        15 MINUTE BREAK

11:00 AM         Rebecca Sperber, MS/LMFT: “The Miller Method”

11:20 AM         Karen Paek: “How Aging Adults can Care for Adult Children with Disabilities”

11:40 AM         Zoey Giesberg, MSW, and Young Adult Panel: “Self-Determination and Person-Centered Planning”

12:00 PM        Jim Abrahams: “The Ketogenic Diet Therapies and The Charlie Foundation”

12:30 PM        LUNCH

(Bring your own lunch or buy lunch from the food trucks or restaurants!)

1:40 PM          Calvin Nye: “The Super Hero in Me”

1:50 PM          Leia Steingart: “Art Therapy and Why?

2:10 PM          Rebecca Sperber, MS/LMFT: “A Journey with Benny”

2:30 PM         Meri Pakarinen: “The Strindberg Laboratory”

2:50 PM         10 MINUTE BREAK

3:00 PM         Jonathan Carlander: “An Artistic/Autistic Life”

3:20 PM          Mikal Britt: “The Positive Effects of Music on Individuals with Autism”

3:40 PM          Bobbi Thompson: “Why Inclusiveness in the Arts Matters”

4:00 PM          Elaine Hall: “The Miracle Project”

4:30 PM           MIXER

Remember: this conference is vendored by the regional center (vendor number PW2646). If clients or parents of regional center clients are interested in attending  please register, and then contact your regional center worker. We will notify you that your registration is complete when we have received your purchase order from the regional center.  Use the “RSVP” selection online.

Also, we have a limited number of scholarship slots available. Please complete the RSVP order section and indicate the amount of scholarship you are requesting. We will respond to your request within a couple of days.

We hope to see you at FACTx!