Leading world autism educationalist, Phil Christie, is online right now to answer your questions

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Hello all,

www.awares.org/conferences

The latest in the series of one-day online seminars on Awares - Autism

Cymru's pioneering website - is with Phil Christie. This event began this

morning and I have decided to extend it for a second day until 11.59pm GMT

tomorrow night (Friday, June 6, 2008).

Phil Christie is a leading world educationalist in the field of autism. He

is presenting a paper on early education at the seminar but is happy to

answer questions about many different aspects of educating autistic

individuals.

Phil is Director of Sutherland House Children's Services, part of NORSACA (a

regional autism charity). This includes retaining an advisory and strategic

role for Sutherland House School, of which he was Principal for more than 20

years. Sutherland House is a non-maintained special school for 84 pupils

and students with autism between the ages of 3 and 19. The school has

recently been awarded specialist status and was judged to be outstanding by

OFSTED in 2007.

Phil is closely involved with the diagnosis of children with disorders of

communication and development at the Newson Centre, where he leads

a team of Consultant Child Psychologists. The centre has a particular

specialism in Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome, a condition first

described by Newson and increasingly being recognised as a

sub-group within the autism spectrum.

The centre carries out a range of other activities such as training and

research, which included an action research project on early diagnosis and

intervention with 2-3 year olds with autism. This project refined an

approach known as 'Frameworks for Communication', which prompted the

development of the Early Communication and Autism Partnership, a

multi-agency service in Nottinghamshire.

For a number of years, Phil was a team leader on the Autism Services

Accreditation Programme, reviewing the quality of services for children with

autism throughout the UK. He was one of the two the founding Chairs of the

Confederation for Service Providers for People with Autism and held this

position in the school's section from 1990-95. Phil is an Associate Editor

of 'Good Autism Practice' and previously undertook the same role for

'Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice'. Phil has been

involved in training sessions and presentations on a range of topics related

to autism across the UK and also in South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Holland,

Finland, Belgium and Greece.

Don't miss this unprecedented opportunity to put your questions to Phil

Christie - and please let anyone else know who might be

You can register right now for this exciting event at

www.awares.org/conferences

Best wishes,

Adam Feinstein

Editor

Awares and AutismConnect

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Adam Feinstein

http://www.lookingupautism.org