Public workshop on April 10 about value of recreational activities for children with disabilities

Dr. Michael Cameron, BBCA, Chair of the Behaviour Analysis Department at Simmons College, Boston, will give a free public workshop called 'The Role of Recreational Activities in Promoting Quality of Life for Children with Disabilities' on Saturday, April 10, at UPEI.

The workshop will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Wanda Wyatt Lecture Theatre, KC Irving Chemistry Centre.

The purpose of the workshop is to: (1) teach family members and educators how to identify the recreational and leisure interests of children, adolescents, and young adults; (2) how to identify an individual's personal strengths for the purpose of building health promoting activities and to affect quality of life; (3) how to identify activities that reconcile with a family's unique interests and the interests of a family's local community; and (4) how to build recreational and leisure skills using a step-by-step format based on the elementary principles of applied behavior analysis.

The workshop is is open to the public and is geared towards families, educators, educational assistants, special needs assistants, autism consultants, early childhood and youth care workers, human services students, and all those in the field of disabilities.. It is presented by the Autism Society of PEI in partnership with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, UPEI's Psychology Department and the Psychological Association of Prince Edward Island.

To register, please email Nathalie Walsh at Nathalie@autismsociety.pe.ca or call 1-902-566-4844.