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Applies to all CASE Offices

Friends' Club 2011-2012 Registration is now open. If you are a returning client, please fill out a registration form located on our Friends' Club page and fax or email it into the correct office. If you are a new client interested in having your son or daughter join Friends' Club, please contact the office located near you to book a Friends' Club Intake/Meet and Greet so that you may register your child. For more information, feel free to email info@casefamily.com

Summer Junior Friends' Club Registration is open for our little ones in Carlsbad, CA. Visit here for more information.

Friends' Club is available at 4 different CASE locations:

Carlsabd, CA
Napa, CA
Oahu, HI
Sunshine Coast, BC

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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

Visit Website: www.QuirkyYes.com

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

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By PATRICIA MORRIS BUCKLEY - For the North County Times | Posted: March 17, 2010 12:01 am

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

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Friends' Club

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Distorted Obstruct Soul: Culture and Mentality

One question I had was how culture correlates to psychological health.

If one person born of one culture, was raised by rules of a second culture, and then had interests for a third culture, would those cultures contradict in terms of psychological health?

I may have a slight clue of the answer but still not sure if it's true. It came up around Health 101, yet cannot convey til now. Think about that very question for a while.

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SMelendrez

Sergio Melendrez was born in San Diego and has lived here all his life. He received a B.S. in Kinesiology from CSU San Bernardino where he also played baseball. After graduation he played two years of professional baseball for the Mexican team, Nogales Internationals. Sergio has two years of ABA experience. In his spare time he enjoys watching baseball and football games with his family, listening to music and helping people. He hopes to one day win the lottery!

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Resources & Links

Organizations
National Autism Association www.nationalautismassociation.org
Autism Society of America www.autism-society.org
Autism Specialists
Tony Attwood www.tonyattwood.com.au
Michelle Garcia Winner www.socialthinking.com
Cynthia Norall, Ph.D. www.quirkyyes.com NOT www.cynthianorall.com which is no longer associated with Cynthia Norall
Non-profits
NFAR http://www.nfar.org
TACA http://www.tacanow.org/
Parent Support
Team of Advocates for special kids www.taskca.org
Allan Roth, MS ED - Ph. (858) 755-7843
Blogs
wrongplanet.net
www.onedadsopinion.blogspot.com
Local San Diego, CA Clinical Psychologists
Dr. Sara Turner, Clincial Psychologist - Ph. (760) 929-2737
Dr. Bruce Stubbs, Clinical Psychologist - Ph. (760) 929-9010
‎Local San Diego, CA Child Psychiatrists
Dr. Joshua Feder - Ph. (858) 509-0523
Dr. Robert Friedman (PsyCare) - Ph. (858) 279-1223
Local San Diego, CA Pediatricians
Dr. Sarita Eastman- Ph. (858) 259-2950
Dr. Nick Levy and Kati Enright (Successful Solutions) - Ph. (760) 753-2396
Dr. Suzanne Mills- Ph. (858) 481-1151
Dr. Ben Spiegel- Ph. (858) 764-3000
Resources - San Diego, CA
Dr. Sara Frampton, Special Education Advocate, Advocacy Associates, Inc. www.advocacyassociates.net Ph. (858)755-7843
Occupational therapists/ Speech and Language Therapists
Vicky Golden (Golden Steps- Occupational Therapy) www.goldenstepspediatric@yahoo.com
The Speech Station and Leaps and Bounds (both) www.thespeechstation.com
Chris Vinceneux (Occupational Therapy) - Ph. (858) 268-8585 www.schooloptionssandiego.com
San Diego Regional Center- SDRC.org
Parent Support Groups
San Diego Chapter ASA www.sd-autism.org
www.valerieslist.com
Short term residential care
Aurora Behavioral Health Care www.aurorabehavioral.com/sandiego
Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital www.sharp.com/hospital
Educational Resources and Special Education Planning Areas
Childrens Garden www.barefooteducation.org
San Marcos Lutheran Preschool www.sanmarcoslutheran.org
Pioneer Day School www.pioneerdayschool.org
Balboa City School www.balboaschool.com
Brain Highways www.brainhighways.com
Neurologists
Dr. Mark Nespeca (Children's Hospital) - Ph. (858) 966-5819
Dr. Doris Trauner (Nuerodevelopmental Disability/Pediatrics)- Ph. (858) 657-8540
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Therapists
Jim Hatton, Ph.D. - Ph. (858) 457-8428
Daniel Blaess, Ph.D. - Ph. (619) 804-1669
Dentists
Children's Hospital- Ph. (800) 778-9029
Tom Keller- (760) 635-3478
Donald Geber (619) 588-2888