Alternatives for Special Kids, Conference and Scholarships

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Alternatives for Special Kids (ASK!) has a limited amount of scholarships

available for its upcoming conference in Irvine, California on May 8 - 11.

Alternatives for Special Kids Conference, Workshops, Exhibits, and Consults is

by far the largest conference of its kind. ASK! brings together world-wide

expertise in hands-on approaches to dealing with the tough challenges that our

children with special needs face. This is not a conference about reporting the

latest research, but instead, ASK! 2003 will help parents and professionals to

readily improve the lives of their children.

 

ASK! scholarships will allow families and professionals to both work and consult

with over 120 speakers who will present 220 presentations/demonstrations and 75

more concentrated workshops. The eight tracks of the conference range from

Healing Therapies, to Technologies, to the Best of the Resources. Presentations

span from healing acquired and traumatic brain injuries, to mobility and body

control, to g-tube nutrition, to learning, to unscrambling children with

multiple issues, to alternatives and resources for teens. Presentations are

geared for children ranging in age from infants to teens and focus on a broad

range of physical and cognitive challenges.

 

There are partial, full, and full-working scholarships (one parent/friends

volunteers in exchange for the other attending the conference) available. ASK's

goals are to:

 

1. Reduce the time it takes to piece together the right puzzle that can best

help our children.

2. Create meeting spaces where professionals, parents, children, and

manufactures can

collaborate to problem solve the hurdles that our children have to struggle

through.

3. Educate the public to alternatives that can improve the lives of children

with these tough

challenges and to bring to the public resources that can enrich the family.

 

ASK! also offers a very exciting Kids Care / Conference that runs at the same

time for both the children with special needs and for their siblings. The Kids

Conference includes many age and ability appropriate activities. There are also

workshops for teens that range from careers, to dealing with emotions, to ways

of helping in the dynamics of a family with a special needs child. In addition,

some of the main conference speakers in the arts, music, movement, and adaptive

sports will work with all of the children. The Kids Conference will provide

professional nursing care.

 

With three weeks to go, ASK! is also looking for assistance in getting the word

out. We have add cards, brochures, and other publications available. We also

have a shortened version of this post.

 

For additional information, view our Web site at www.4healthykids.org, e-mail

darien, or call 401.315.0590. The full list of topics will be

posted this weekend. Scholarship requests should be submitted as soon as

possible.

 

Darien C. Small

Alternatives for Special Kids

darien

Irvine, California

May 8-11, 2003

"Doing the best that we

can for our children."