The C.A.S.E., Inc. philosophy
Our aim is to provide personalized interventions that integrate proven therapies benefiting both the child and their family. We celebrate the insights that people with autism spectrum disorders offer to our society. Our mission is to prepare our clients to be happy and socially successful people who make and maintain friendships throughout life.
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Dear Parents,
Your child's/teen's group day and time has been finalized. Please look for your Friends' Club post card in the mail to determine when your child will be attending group.
We look forward to seeing your children/teen in Friends' Club!
Sincerely,
CASE
Looking for a Social Group or One on One for your child?
CASE offers many services that help children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Asperger's Syndrome. Recently, Friends' Club (our social skills group) has been in the news around San Diego County because of the release of Dr. Norall's (Friends' Club's Developer) book, Quirky, Yes-Hopeless, No. CASE offers Friends' Clubs in 4 different locations:
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Carlsbad (North County San Diego), CA
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Oahu, Hawaii
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Napa, California
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The Sunshine Coast, B.C. Canada
If you are interested in developing a group, hearing Dr. Norall speak about Friends' Club and her Award Winning Book or joining a Friends' Club group, please email maria.lyon@casefamily.com or call our offices at (760) 720-4964 for more information.
For more information on CASE services, please refer to the "Our Services" tab above for a brief description.
2009 San Diego Book of the Year award in the category of Non-Fiction/Education
QUIRKY, YES—HOPELESS, NO
Practical Tips to Help Your Child With Asperger's Syndrome Be More Socially Accepted
By Cynthia La Brie Norall, Ph.D., with Beth Wagner Brust
St. Martin’s Press
We are so proud of both Dr. Norall and Beth Brust to have received this prestigious award!
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San Diego's North County Times article features Dr. Cynthia Norall's new book
Click here for Article titled "Making quirky cool: Club for kids with Asperger's inspires new parenting book", Story Discussion By Patricia Morris Buckley, For the North County Times, March 17, 2010
sneak preview...
Beth Wagner Brust knows there are few things more difficult than watching your child struggle to make friends. Her youngest son, Ben, was diagnosed with ADHD in kindergarten, but by third grade he still didn't have any friends.
"My pediatrician said he had Asperger's," explained Brust, a Carmel Valley resident. Asperger's is considered a higher form of autism that makes social interaction, among other things, difficult. "Like any parent, I was thrown for a loop. Then I heard about the Friends Club in Carlsbad."
The Friends Club is a safe, non-threatening and non-stressful environment where kids with Asperger's get together to learn the "unwritten" social skills. Now it's inspired Brust and Cynthia La Brie Norall, Ph.D., to write "Quirky, Yes — Hopeless, No: Practical Tips to Help Your Child with Asperger's Syndrome Be More Socially Accepted" (St. Martin's Griffin).
Asperger's children are often the kids who are bullied, sit alone at lunch and rarely get an invitation to a birthday party. But at the club, they learn such skills as making eye contact, greeting people, letting others talk about their interests and being less rigid through games, breaking skills into baby steps and role playing.
By learning the subtle social cues that typical children take for granted, they can begin making friends. And that's exactly what happened with Ben.
"By the end of the first year, I heard him ask another kid, 'Am I boring you?' and I almost fell over," recalled Brust. "I'd never heard him say that before. It was amazing to see that growth in six months."
The Friends Club was the brainchild of Norall, an educational behavior psychologist. While working at a preschool in Valley Center in 1992, she first encountered children with autism. That's around the time that autism diagnoses began to rise dramatically. Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 out of every 100 8-year-olds is autistic.
"I just found this population fascinating," Norall said. "I went to every seminar and conference I could on autism. I really wanted to help them."
For more, click here to be directed to the North County Times
Book Release
QUIRKY, YES—HOPELESS, NO
Practical Tips to Help Your Child With Asperger's Syndrome Be More Socially Accepted
By Cynthia La Brie Norall, Ph.D., with Beth Wagner Brust
St. Martin’s Press
According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in every 150 American children has some form of autism. It is the fastest-growing developmental disability in the United States, and there is no single definitive treatment or cure.
In QUIRKY, YES—HOPELESS, NO, Dr. Cynthia La Brie Norall presents over 80 social challenges faced by Asperger’s children and teens in a handy, alphabetical order, along with specific, useful suggestions on how to help these kids overcome their social difficulties. Since everyday “people skills” do not come naturally to children with Asperger’s, they need training in such simple activities as:
- How to greet others and make eye contact
- How to let go and move on to new things
- How to ask for help and cooperate
- How to pay compliments
- How to discern someone’s true intention
- How to handle teasing and bullying
- How not to be rude
Based on Dr. Norall’s 20 years of experience diagnosing and treating thousands of Asperger’s individuals, this book will share her insights and firsthand knowledge learned from helping so many friendless Asperger’s children become more approachable, less stuck, and finally able to make, and keep, a friend or two.
Beth Wagner Brust, book editor, is an award-winning author of 13 children's books and a graduate of Stanford University. Her teenage son has attended the Friends' Club since fourth grade.
Purchase Quirky, Yes-Hopeless from Amazon.com , Barnes and Noble.com or Indiebound.com
A Message from Cynthia Norall, Ph.D:
Are you on the Autism Hub?
In the world of autism there seems to be two camps. Those who celebrate the individuals that we are lucky enough to work with by translating and facilitating in social settings and those that want to treat with a biomedical model. CASE is definitely in the first camp.
I am proud to have begun posting on some sites within the Autism Hub. There is one specific site I like to blog on. One Dads Opinion webpage at click here to go to Onedadsopinion.com is in line with our beliefs at CASE, Inc.
I have finally found a positive media report about autism and bloggers from the Autism Hub are featured. Please check out the ABC news article from Good Morning America click here to view the article.
Cynthia
Quote:
" When I approach a child
He inspires in me two sentiments:
Tenderness for what he is,
And respect for what he may become."
-Louis Pasteur
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