QCDC organises webinar series to raise awareness of ASD
18 Apr 2021 - 10:17
Samantha Campion Gibson (left) and Sabika Shaban
The Peninsula
The Qatar Career Development Center (QCDC), a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), has organized a webinar series to raise awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), to coincide with April - Autism Awareness Month.
QCDC will hold the next live webinar via Zoom in English, titled ‘Autism Awareness Month: Ordinary Heroes – Nurturing People with Autism’. Taking place on Monday, April 19, at 8 30pm, it targets parents and young men and women with autism.
Special guests Sara Coleman, Special Education Teacher at Awsaj Academy; Samantha Campion-Gibson, Autism Specialist at the Learning Center; and Sabika Shaban, a parent of two neurodiverse children, will speak at the webinar. They will tackle the blessings and challenges of raising and educating children diagnosed with ASD, speaking about experiences and lessons learned. The webina
CCISD
The Copper Country Intermediate School District Board of Education held its regular monthly meeting virtually on Tuesday, Dec. 15.
Superintendent Stockero shared with the board that two Copper Country stories have made their way to other states and the CCISD had received calls asking about them. The first calls came from schools in Colorado and Florida. They had read about the Tiny House that the CTE construction class completed. The Colorado and Florida schools thought the project was great and wanted to understand the process so they could try to replicate the project.
The next call came from an Autism Specialist from a school district in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The Twin City superintendent shared the news article about the Core Board with the staff and they decided it is something they would like to implement as well. The CCISD Autism consultant did a virtual meeting with the Autism Consultant from Minnesota. They discussed what the board was made out of and how th