Surrey Place Centre: Raising Awareness About Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Community Kelly Alves, Parent and Education Support Supervisor

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Surrey Place CentreRaising Awareness About
Autism Spectrum Disorder in the CommunityKelly
Alves, Parent and Education Support Supervisor  
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What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?

• A word used to describe a neuro-developmental
  disorder
• ASD changes an individuals brain
• These brain differences make communication and
  social interaction difficult
• People with ASD may do the same action repeatedly
  (flap hands, rock back and forth)
• ASD can impact how someone reacts to sensory
  information
• Over/Under reactive
• ASD affects people differently
• Often referred to as a spectrum

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How is ASD Diagnosed?

• Doctors or psychologists do a series of
  autism-specific evaluations with the child as
  well interviews with parents and caregivers
• Prior to 2013 a person could be diagnosed with a
  type of Autism
• Autistic Disorder
• Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise
  Specified (PDD-NOS)
• Asperger Syndrome
• Rett Syndrome
• Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
• As of May 2013 a revised assessment manual now
  uses one term autism spectrum disorder

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Describing Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Triad of Symptoms

• Dyad of Symptoms

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How Common is ASD?

• It seems that we are hearing a lot about ASD
• Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  reports 1 out of 68 children
  have ASD
• In Canada the prevalence of ASD is 1 in 77
  children
• This is a significant increase over the last 40
  years
• Recent report estimating 30,000-35,000 children
  with ASD in Ontario
• (Auditors Generals Report, 2013)

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Common Interventions for ASD Applied Behaviour
Analysis

• Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is a useful way
  to teach people with ASD
• ABA uses prompts and reinforcement to help
  individuals learn new skills
• Prompts are gestures, demonstrations, touches or
  other things we do to help children will be
  correct
• (McClannahan Krantz, 1999, pg. 37)
• Reinforcement is a word used to describe rewards
  that follow an action

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Increasing Community awareness

• Surrey Place Centre

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What is Surrey Place Centre?

• Surrey Place Centre is an accredited organization
  that provides specialized clinical services to
  children and adults with a developmental
  disability, ASD, or visual impairments
• Our vision is to enable full participation for
  people with developmental disabilities and/or
  autism spectrum disorders
• As an organization we value
• Collaboration
• Accountability
• Innovation
• Respect
• Responsiveness

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Programs and Services at Surrey Place Centre

• Surrey Place Centre offers a range of services to
  children with ASD and their families
• Services use ABA teaching strategies to help
  children learn important skills needed to be
  successful at home and in the community
• Parent involvement is often an essential
  component of these service options

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Services for Children with ASD

• Toronto Autism ABA Services Free service for
  children 0-18 living in the Greater Toronto Area
  with a confirmed diagnosis of ASD
• Small groups using ABA strategies to develop
  communication, social skills, daily living skills
  and emotional regulation
• This service provides education to
  parents/caregivers on how to apply ABA strategies
  which will help their children learn, maintain
  and generalize skills

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Services for Children with ASD - Continued

• Toronto Partnership for Autism Services (TPAS)
• The Toronto Partnership for Autism Services
  (TPAS) is a community-based service that helps
  children with autism and their families through
  Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI)
• IBI is a scientifically proven intervention with
  the goal of increasing the rate of learning for
  children with autism
• When IBI is effective children show substantial
  improvement in language, cognitive ability, and
  adaptive behaviour
• Children have different outcomes, with research
  suggesting 40 to 50 of young children may make
  substantial progress over a 1 to 2 year period

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Services for Children with ASD - Continued

• School Support Program

• TRE-ADD Program

• Collaboration between the Ministry of Children
  and Youth Services and Ministry of Education
• Provide training and consultation to publicly
  funded school boards and school authorities

• Comprehensive day treatment program that provides
  services for children and youth with autism and
  related developmental disorders with multiple and
  complex needs and their families

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Where Can I Get More Information?

• Surrey Place Centre wants to make it easy for
  people to access our services
• Anyone may refer an individual with a
  developmental disability, autism spectrum
  disorder or visual impairment to Surrey Place
  Centre for assessment or treatment services
• Please visit our website www.surreyplace.on.ca
  for more information about eligibility for the
  programs and services discussed or to make a
  referral