Illinois – Crystal Lake
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TACA holds monthly meetings in many locations throughout the United States that feature educational speakers on important topics and allow family members to connect with one another and stay on top of the latest information in the autism world.
Each TACA group maintains a resource library of the latest autism books and DVDs/CDs that can be checked out by members at no charge.
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| Date: | Meets the 3rd Saturday of each month |
| Time: | 4:30 – 6:30 PM |
| Location: | Home State Bank, Community Meeting Room (on basement level) 611 S. Main Street Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Directions from your location |
| Coordinators: | Contact Linda Betzold and Sara DiFucci |
| Child care: | Not offered at this time, sorry |
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Equal Participation: Please contact TACA if you will require an accommodation to participate. |
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| May 19, 2012 | Meet Spectrum Supports, LLC, A new autism center in Woodstock, IL |
| Speakers: Tania Boon-Richardson and Dr. Scott Morris |
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| Spectrum Support, LLC, a new center devoted to individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families, just opened its doors in Woodstock this year. Come and meet the autism mom behind this new center, Tania Boon-Richardson, and hear her vision for what the center can bring to our community. Tania is also looking for YOUR ideas and input. This meeting is your chance to ask for you what you need – therapy services, play groups, open gym time, whatever you are looking for! Tania has also brought Dr. Scott Morris, a DAN! physician, to the team at Spectrum Support. He will now be in Woodstock at Spectrum Supports one to two days a week seeing patients. Dr. Morris will introduce himself, talk about biomedical treatment for autism spectrum disorders, and he will be offering five free 15-minute consults with families who would like to talk with him individually. These consults will go to the first five families who e-mail Linda at linda.betzold.tacanow.org. Families will be notified as soon as possible whether they were one of the first five to e-mail or not. | |
| Self described as “just a mom”, Tania Boon-Richardson saw a need in the community and created Spectrum Supports to offer families and children affected by autism excellent local resources under one roof. Using her own experiences with her son who has autism, Christopher, she strives to create a center that is kid and family friendly – a place where the kids want to come and the families feel comfortable and never judged. Bringing in passionate professionals in the fields of speech therapy, occupational therapy, biomedical treatment, social skills, and chiropractic services, the center hopes to ease the stresses involved in life with autism. The center is a welcoming place that always looks for families’ input on the center can meet their needs. After a wide variety of educational and professional experiences, Dr. Scott Morris found himself in the field of occupational and environmental medicine which gave him an appreciation of the impact of environmental, chemical, and toxic exposures upon the neurological and behavioral development of individuals and their families. As a result, he pursued a Masters of Public Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2005. Since 2008, Dr. Morris has been a DAN! physician. Additionally, he serves as Chair of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s Special Interest Section for Underserved Occupational Populations. Dr. Morris believes that by removing offending items such as toxins, certain foods, and infectious agents and by replacing lacking nutrients one is more likely to achieve a balanced metabolism and physiology. It is this equilibrium which allows an individual to attain their optimal neurological and behavioral development. Additionally, these goals are most successfully achieved for the patient through close collaboration with the family, educators, therapists, and other clinicians. He sees patients by appointment in both Woodstock and Gurnee. |
Coffee Talk
| What: | Please join us for our last TACA Coffee Talk before summer! As always we’ll be talking about anything and everything related to autism, but we’ll also focus this month on the upcoming AutismOne Conference taking place at the Westin in Lombard, Illinois from May 23 to 27, 2012. We’ll look at speakers and topics together, so everyone can decide which presentation to see at this point in their journey, enabling them to use their time wisely at the conference this year. Check out the conference. After summer, our TACA Coffee Talks will start up again in the same location on Friday, September 14, 2012. |
| Date: | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| Time: | 9:30 – 11:00 AM |
| Location: | Panera Bread 451 South Randall Road Algonquin, IL 60102 Directions from your location |
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Email lists are a great way to stay connected between meetings. You can subscribe, read emails and ask questions all related to autism. These lists connect you to other parents like you!
Here is how to connect:
Step 1 – Get a Yahoo! user ID and password
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Step 3 – Click on “Join This Group”
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