ADDL Winter 2012 Newsletter is here!
Our annual newsletter provides updates on our progress during the last year as well as upcoming events that our lab is hosting. Please feel free to share this with others that you think would be interested. To view our newsletter, please click here
Another Successful Defense
We are pleased to announce that Kimberly Armstrong successfully passed her M.A. thesis defense on November 23rd. The title of her thesis is: “The relation between autism symtomology and performance on a search task”.
Kimberly is a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program at SFU and is supervised by Dr. Grace Iarocci.
New Online Study started!
Dr. Grace Iarocci and Theo Elfers, Dipl.-Psych. are currently looking for teens and young adults (13-21 years), with and without Autism/Aspergers and their parents in a new Canada-wide online study.
The goal of this study is to understand how young people view themselves and their future and how that is related to the young people's well-being. Participants and their parents will complete separate online questionnaires. There is a small monetary thank you for participating. To sign up please call 778-782-6746 (toll-free: 1-855-583-8061) or email us at: idstudy@sfu.ca. For more information about all of our ongoing studies, click here.
ADDL & Autism Speaks Walk
The ADDL participated in the 4th Annual Vancouver Walk on September 25 and we raised over $600 for this event! We also had a table in the resource center to provide information to families about opportunities to participate in research and special events. One of our volunteers, David, entertained the children with making balloon animals. Thanks you to everyone who donated to this event and to those who participated in the walk despite the rain. It is greatly appreciated!
Exciting Changes in the ADDL!
Congratulations to Dr. Birmingham who has been recently appointed to assistant professor in the SFU Faculty of Education (in human development with a focus on Exceptionality). We appreciate your contribution to ADDL and wish you continued success. We look forward to future collaborations with you.
ADDL + SFU Science AL!VE Summer Camps = Fun!
Over the summer, our graduate students and volunteers taught Autism awareness to children and teens (age 6-13). We taught children and teens about some of the characteristics that other children with ASD may have and strategies on how to be a good friend. We also did fun and interactive demonstrations of the type of research being conducted in our lab. Thanks to Science AL!VE for inviting us to visit the camps!
