AANE New Hampshire Chapter

Contact Information

Director: Shelley Viles
Email: sviles@antiochne.edu

For referrals and information, please call AANE at (866) 597-AANE

Click here to go to the AANE New Hampshire Website

For more information about Asperger's Syndrome and AANE, please call Robin Lurie-Meyerkopf, M.Ed. at 617-393-3824 ext 316.

Events

Know Yourself: Adult Conference
Annual Conference for Adults with Asperger Syndrome
Keynote Speaker: Ari Ne’Eman
When: July 18, 2009; 9:00 am – 5:15 pm
Where: Northeastern University - Curry Student Center
360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Learn more and Register

No More Meltdowns - Cape Cod Conference
Presented by: Jed Baker, Ph.D.
When: Thursday, August 13, 2009; 8:30am - 3:30pm
Where: Cape Codder Resort & Spa
1225 Iyanough Road, Route 132 & Bearse's Way, Hyannis, MA
Learn more and Register

Speech Connections Seacoast: Free Screening
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009
Location: 104 Congress Street, Suite 401, Portsmouth, NH
Do you have questions about your child's development? Is she understanding language? Is she using language to communicate? Is she frustrated? Do you have concerns about nutrition? Is your child getting enough foods? The right foods? Is he picky? Are you worried about how
your child is progressing? Let us answer some of these questions for you, and address these concerns with you.
Learn More (PDF)

Speech Connections Seacoast: Summer Camp
Social Skills Development for Childran in a fun, summer camp format!
Five One-Week Sessions: July 6-9, July 13-16, July 20-23, July 27-30, and August 3-6
Location: 104 Congress Street, Suite 401, Portsmouth, NH
Cost: $190 per week (Sign up for all 5 weeks for discount!)
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Autism Awareness Day with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats
Come join the Asperger’s Association of New England and the Autism Society of New Hampshire for an afternoon of baseball & fun. $3 from each ticket sold will go directly to benefit AANE.
Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009; game at 1:05pm
Location: Fisher Cats Ballpark; 169 South Commercial Street, Manchester, New Hampshire
Tickets: $10 each. Seats are located behind the dugouts in the Field Box sections.
Learn More (PDF) and register online

Recreational Activity Group

For young adults-adults with high functioning autism, Asperger’s syndrome and/or other related similar neurological based challenges.

Hosted by Wentworth Douglass Hospital

Meet new people for games, conversation and food. Another activity time will be planned each month for specific activities of interest to participants.

Meetings: the last Thursday of each month
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Salmon Falls Room — Wentworth Douglass Hospital
1789 Central Avenue, Dover N.H. 03820 - Directions

For more information or to register, contact:
Kip Deese-Laurent, B.A., M.Ed.
Spectrum Disorders Certification/Antioch New England
kipdl@hotmail.com; 603-664-8857

Recreational Group for Adults with Asperger's Syndrome in Keene, NH

A social recreation group for adults with Asperger's Syndrome and related disorders will meet on July 2nd and 16th from 6:30 to 8:00 at Antioch University New England, 40 Avon St., in Keene, NH in room 1B. The group will offer adults with Asperger's Syndrome and related disorders an opportunity to socialize on a regular basis, twice a month. Activities will be developed by the group itself. For the first meeting, participants are encouraged to bring a board game of choice and an appetite for pizza. This group is sponsored by the Asperger's Association of New England - New Hampshire Chapter.

The group facilitator is Joanna Andros, LiCSW, a child and family therapist who completed Antioch University’s Autism Spectrum Disorder Certificate Program, in 2008. For more information or to sign-up to attend, please contact Joanna at 603-852-8168 or by e-mail joannaandros@hotmail.

For directions please see: http://www.antiochne.edu/aboutane/directions.cfm?nav=1

Professional Training Workshop:
Understanding Socially Challenged Children: Recognizing and Supporting School-Age Children with Asperger Syndrome

Presented by Robin Lurie-Meyerkopf

For more information or to register call (617) 393-3824 x316