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Bethany Project: Autistic/Challenging Behaviours Training & Support Group (9)

Trainer: Sibylle Janert

Wednesdays 10am – 12 o’clock

4 Westport Street, London E1

All welcome: no need to phone, but please don't be late, as it disturbs the discussion.

Training Sessions focus on a topic & include recent research, video-examples, overheads and discussion

The Support Group deals with issues about your child: behaviour, concerns, a success story, developmental questions

The Focus Group is for parents and officers from Health, Social Services, Education to listen and share feedback

January - July 2005

12 January Support Group
19 January Autism in India: What can we learn from special schools in Calcutta / India ? (video)
26 January Support Group
2 February What is autism and what is the autistic child's main problem?
9 February Support Group
Half Term
23 February 'I want my little boy back': Video of a family whose child recovered from autism
2 March Support Group
9 March Focus Group with Chris Munday, Head of Children's Trust, to hear parents' views of Social Services
16 March Support Group
Easter Holidays
13 April Support Group
20 April 'Well done!': About ways of praising and encouraging the autistic child
27 April Support Group
4 May Toilet-training is fundamental for mental and language development
11 May Support Group
18 May Brain-foods: certain foods and nutrients can help autistic children and improve their behaviour
25 May Support Group
Half Term
8 June Support Group
15 June Focus Group with Cesia Pritisc (EP) about Educational Psychologists, schools and statementing
22 June Support Group
29 June What are difficult behaviours and tantrums made of? How should we respond?
6 July Support Group

Sibylle Janert, MA , is a psychologist, Autism Specialist, author of ‘Reaching the Young Autistic Child’ (FAB 2000) and a licensed NAS EarlyBird trainer. She works as a Child Development Mentor with families of an autistic child at the Bethany Project, the family's home or the child's school.

Sibylle understands autism as an early developmental disorder with much potential for change, the earlier the better because 'the brain doesn't wait'. Her psycho-educational approach focuses on helping parents as the most important people in every child's life to encourage communication and relationship-building with their child, to understand the puzzling autistic behaviours and how to help the child to make the most of his/her developmental potential.

With over 15 years of hands-on experience with children with autistic behaviours and their parents, as well as with babies and under 5s, she runs Groups, workshops, consultations and training sessions for parents/carers, schools and other organisations, e.g. Phoenix School, APASENTH, Barnardos, Spark Centre, Autism Service/LEA-Oxford, SureStart, as well as wider afield in Germany, Scotland, Africa, India and Bangladesh.

The Bethany Project
4 Westport Street
Stepney, London E1 0RA

Tel. 020 7790 6464
Email: info@bethanyproject.info