Today was the first week of school and the whole family was really excited especially Izzy. I think that school is a break for parents but also children. The kids were sooo happy to be going to see their friends and teachers. Izzy was happy to see his teacher Mrs. Wall.

Happy Autumn everyone!  The year is really going by quickly. 

We just wanted to let everyone know that we are putting holiday file folder games on our website to 

either download ala carte or purchase a set of 6 mixed games on CD. 

There are games for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

These games can really help keep those little hands busy during those days they have a lot of down time.  They might also help keep mom and dad sane too.  Use the games as a way to do some one on one time together or if possible use them as a way to learning independent skills!

Check out our games and drop us a line.  As always,we love hearing from you.

                                Patty and Alison  

Location(s)

The Els for Autism Foundation is teaming up with The Childhood Autism Foundation, Inc. (CADEF) in the annual Magnolia Classic Golf Tournament, to be held at the Marietta Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia on October 12, 2009.

At the Magnolia Classic, the Els for Autism Foundation will raffle off a a limited edition photograph showing three of Ernie Els tournament wins and also the chance for a foursome to play at Els' home course in Jupiter, Florida. To kick things off, Els' wife Liezl will deliver a recorded message to participants. Ten percent of proceeds will go to the Els foundation.

The Els for Autism Foundation was started in March 2009 by professional golfer Ernie Els and his wife, whose son Ben is affected by autism. The goal is to raise money for the Autism Center of Excellence in order to develop an educational program for children up to age 21, a continuing services program for adults, on-site services for doctors, speech therapists and other health care professionals, and a research facility.
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We have a great event to let everyone know about in Oct.   October 10th to be exact.  The Autism Society of NC is hosting the Triangle Run/Walk for Autism event.   We are excited to have been invited to be part of the festivities.  Hopefully the day will be cool and sunny and everyone should have a great time.

 We look forward to having you stop by our booth to say hi and see what we have.  We look forward to seeing you there.

                             Patty and Alison 

Hello again from Ali-Pat Publications!

 Alison and I want to thank those who gave us some great ideas for the name of our new page. After a great deal of discussion we have made our decision.  The new page for teachers, caretakers, parents and therapists to post their ideas on educational materials and their uses will be called simply: The Message Board.

The way this works is this: contact us at info@alipatpublications with your ideas on how you have taken educational games or materials and recreated them to work for you and your students.  We hope this will be a great way for teachers, caretakers, parents and therapists to share new ideas and use them or to reuse old materials in new ways.

We look forward to posting your ideas!

 Patty and Alison 

October 10th 2009. Virginia Beach Double Tree Hotel at the VB Convention Center. Our first Tidewater Autism Summit Saturday 12:00 -4:00. No charge for vendors or participants. The areas largest gathering of Autism Service providers. Bring the kids and talk to families and service providers from the Autism community. Information tidewaterasa@verizon.net or mllobell@aol.com.  

Location(s)

Organized by Autism Speaks the Philadelphia Walk Now For Autism Event will take place at Citizens Bank Park on September 26th, 2009.

Register now on the Walk Now For Autism website to start a fundraising effort as an individual, family or corporate team. On-site registration starts at 8:00am on the 26th. A Resource Fair and entertainment for kids will be available starting at 8:00am as well. The walk will start at 10:00am.

Just in time to save us from advocacy-image-burnout, Jaime and Jeffrey Rugh, a  N.J. couple who are artists and the parents of two children on the spectrum, have started designing and producing postersthat are sharp and unusual. Like the spectrum itself, the posters vary widely in range, focus and design. Some have quotes by people such as Rupert Isaacson, author of “The Horse Boy” and musician Dan Zanes. Leave a comment about the artwork – perhaps where you might display it? — and you could win one of their posters! We’ll run reminders all week and award a poster to one lucky reader.

Hi everyone this is Patty and Alison from Ali-Pat Publications. 

We want to thank our customers who have sent us their reviews, comments and ideas concerning our games and products. We were pleasently surprised by the number of educators that had taken some of our games one step farther and found a new way to use them to teach.  They have shown us once again that we are only stopped by the use of our imagination.

It is because of their imaginative ideas we want to add a page to our website for 

teachers, therapists, parents and caretakers of special needs children to exchange creative ways to use teaching materials.

Although we would love to hear more about your creative ideas from using our games, we want to leave an open forum between teachers,parents,therapists and caregivers who work with children with Autism and other special needs who get 

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I've had a few responses regarding my post asking for your struggles with Asperger's. I've received a couple of great stories from parents who want to get the word out to other parents. I especially want to educate teachers and the public about our kids so they can better understand. Maybe you haven't had the teachers who think AS kids are just "bad" kids? I would be surprised if that is true!

If you missed my first post, I'm writing a book with my son, Kyle's stroy. I am looking for other parent's stories, such as yourselves, to include in the book.

If you would like to be heard and educate others...please respond.

Thanks,

Tami  BA, Elementary Education

Kyle's MOM