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4349 The Third Annual Women's Panel: Redefining Success and Strategies for Achieving

Friday, July 24, 2009: 4:15 PM-5:30 PM

St. Charles Ballroom III (Pheasant Run Resort and Conference Center)

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Society defines success. Its commonly accepted definition often places people with ASDs on the "outside" of success. To achieve success one must redefine and individualize it to develop new strategies. There needs to be a paradigm shift to individual achievement. Our panel consists of a college student who created a student support program, the chair of a national organization who uses alternative communication, a social worker with a private practice and a national, professional trainer on ASDs, all of whom live successfully with ASDs. To be added later

Learning Objectives:

Participants will question the traditional role/definition of "success".
Participants will hear how women from 19-50 who are living with ASDs have redefined success.
Participants will learn how specific strategies have helped them to cope and manage, toward a goal of individualized success efforts.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask specific questions to the panel members to help them in their on redefining of success.
All of this will be focused toward the empowerment of women and ASDs.

Content Area: Personal Perspectives

Presenters:

Dena Gassner, Ph.D., student
Director Center for Understanding
Dena Gassner

Dena is the Director of the Center for Understanding, providing training and information worldwide. Boards for the Arc US, GRASP and the Autism Society benefit from her unique expertise. Wife, mother and non-traditional Ph.D. student at Adelphi University, she's living an authentic life including--not separate from--her own autistic identity.

Judy M. Endow, MSW
Autism Consultant
Private Practice

Judy maintains a private practice in Madison, WI, consulting for school districts, agencies and families. She is a statewide DPI Autism Trainer for Wisconsin, ASW board member and author. Judy is a mother of three, one with ASD. The blessings and challenges of her own autism impact all she does.

Brigid Rankowski, B.A.
DSP/CRMA, Vaudevillian, and Autistic

Brigid graduated with a B.A. from Cornell College and is currently working on her Masters from Nova Southeastern University. She works as a teaching assistant, a DSP and is in the award-winning vaudeville troupe The Dark Follies.

Sharisa Joy Kochmeister, B.A.
Consultant/Advocate/Trainer/Editor/Author
Self-employed, freelance

Sharisa Joy, 30, has a degree in Psychology/Sociology with honors/awards from Denver University. She is on ASA's PSA , President of Autcom, Editor-in-Chief of The Autism Perspective Magazine, advisor to ASDI, member of GRASP and member of the Executive Committee of the Colorado D.D. Council. She has given numerous presentations and won many awards.

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