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5939 Living with Autism In the Family: Taking Care of Everyone's Needs
Friday, July 27, 2012: 1:15 PM-2:45 PM
Pacific Salon 6-7 (Town and Country Resort and Convention Center)
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This unique presentation combines the personal and professional perspectives of a psychologist who has raised an adult child with autism. Combining real life experience with scholarship and insight, this presentation will include coping strategies for the family unit. Specific strategies and coping skills for meeting the needs of typically developing siblings, while strengthening and enhancing the parents’ relationship will presented based upon current research and best clinical practices.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will gain perspective upon the family’s stages in developing as a unit while raising a child with autism.
- Participants will learn effective strategies for dealing with issues affecting typically developing siblings.
- Participants will learn some basic relationship maintenance skills for their marriage or primary relationship.
Content Area: Life with Autism
Presenter:
Robert A. Naseef, Ph.D.
Psychologist
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Robert Naseef is a psychologist and parent of child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). He specializes in family issues with ASD. He has written several books and has co-edited other books on the subject of ASD.
