Long Beach
Come to a TACA Meeting!
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: | ***New Meeting Date*** Meets the 1st Saturday of each month |
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| Time: | ***New Meeting Time*** 12:00 – 3:00 PM |
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| Location: | ***New Meeting Location*** Ability First 3770 East Willow Street Long Beach, California 90815 Driving Directions |
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| Coordinator: | Contact Julie Ward | ||||||||||||
| Child care: | This is not offered at this time, sorry. | ||||||||||||
| February 4, 2012** | IPAD Applications for Kids with Autism | ||||||||||||
| **Please note: The topics and speakers for the January and February 2012 meetings have been alternated. | |||||||||||||
| Speaker: Dr. Jessica Postil, PsyD | |||||||||||||
Come and learn about how the iPad (or iPhone or iPad Touch) has revolutionized the autism world. Coupled with the available applications, or ‘apps’ that have been developed to enhance communication between children and their parents (or caregivers, teachers, and therapists), the results are nothing short of miraculous. Read more about Dr. Jessica Postil here: http://www.autismconsultants.com/about_autism_spectrum_consultants.html#executive_directors |
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| February 26, 2012 | ***LOCAL PARENT EDUCATION SEMINAR*** | ||||||||||||
| Tax Strategies for Parents of Kids with Special Needs | |||||||||||||
| Speaker: Gina Levy, CPA | |||||||||||||
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| Gina Levy has been a Certified Public Accountant for over 20 years. Her experience includes over 5 years with a major international CPA firm and several years managing accounting departments. Recently she opened her own CPA practice in West Los Angeles. Gina is also the mother of two children with special needs. Her daughter has autism and her son has ADHD. She has been a passionate advocate for increasing the quality of service for all children with special needs. Along with her husband, Ralph, and other parents, she founded SpecialKidsLA, Inc. The website was a great help to many parents, unfortunately, they were unable to secure adequate funding to continue managing and hosting the website. Gina now brings this passion to her prior background of tax and accounting. She has recognized that many parents of children with special needs are unaware of how they can access additional services by tax planning. She is available for consultation on any of these issues and looks forward to helping parents. | |||||||||||||
| March 3, 2012 | Medical Insurance Coverage for Special Needs | ||||||||||||
| Speaker: Christopher E. Angelo, Esq. | |||||||||||||
| Christopher E. Angelo will speak about how parents can use insurance laws in perfecting major medical coverages for autism and about how parents can use state law to overcome negative anti-consumer federal law. | |||||||||||||
| Christopher E. Angelo is a consumer contingency fee trial attorney representing those catastrophically injured by insurance companies, defective product manufacturers, defectively constructed buildings and other corporate malfeasance. Mr. Angelo has prosecuted and established pro-consumer legal precedents that have received national attention in areas affecting healthcare, biotechnology, environmental clean-up and insurance. He is also the proud father of an 18-year-old son with autism.After his son was diagnosed in 1994, Mr. Angelo proposed a mental health parity state mandate to overrule all “mental and nervous disorder” exclusions in California health plans. With the help of UCLA, this state mandate ultimately became known as AB88 and is now the most progressive autism state mandate in the nation. Mr. Angelo has spoken throughout California and other states on how parents and professionals can perfect medically necessary major medical coverage for autism under their private healthcare plans. | |||||||||||||
| March 25, 2012 | Autism Families Night at the Aquarium of the Pacific | ||||||||||||
Join us for a special evening at the Aquarium exclusively for families with adults or children with autism. The entire Aquarium, except Lorikeet Forest, will be open until 9:00 p.m. This will be a peaceful evening when guests can enjoy the tranquility of our exhibits and meet 11,000 animals from the world’s largest ocean.
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| April 7, 2012 | NO MEETING | ||||||||||||
| May 5, 2012 | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| June 2, 2012 | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| July 7, 2012 | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| August 4, 2012 | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| September 1, 2012 | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| October 6, 2012 | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| November 3, 2012 | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| December 1, 2012 | TBA |
Coffee Talk
| About: | Come and receive some extra support or to chat all topics related to autism and meet other TACA families. Hosted by Julie Ward, mother of two recovered children. |
| Dates: | Meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month |
| January 11, 2012 February 8, 2012 March 14, 2012 April 11, 2012 May 9, 2012 June 13, 2012 July 11, 2012 August 8, 2012 September 12, 2012 October 10, 2012 November 14, 2012 December 12, 2012 |
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| Time: | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
| Location: | Barnes & Noble Long Beach Towne Center 7651 Carson Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90808 Directions from your location |
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