Workshop: How to Win Friends and Influence People Gain social understanding skills on how to:       Have extended conversations (What comes next?!)      Navigate a crowded room (Who ARE all these people?)      Decide when and HOW to end a conversation (Are we DONE yet?) Wednesdays: December 3rd, 10th, and 17th. Location:…

Facilitated by a recreational therapist, this workshop will introduce stress relieving exercises and mindfulness activities. Tuesdays: December 2nd, 9th, and 16th. Location: Integrated Autism Consulting, 45 Maple Avenue, Barrie Time: from 10:00 to 12:00 am Cost: $115.00 for sessions and materials (Please pay at the first class.)

Tuesdays:  Get relaxed and ready for the holiday season (am).                  Make cool gifts for your loved ones (pm). Wednesdays:  Creative Cookie Creations (am). Start your new year gaining social confidence doing Improv with Alana!  (pm). Thursdays:  Get a job: Practice your interview skills (am). College and university  organizational…

Thanks to everyone for attending the Halloween party and a special thank you to CJ and his parents for hosting such a great event! Check out these costumes. They were awesome!

Learn Skills, Meet Friends, Have Fun at Integrated Autim Consulting. Check out the upcoming November Activities: Tuesdays:  Design an emotional toolbox to reduce anxiety. (am)                   Create a beautiful collage using Japanese Tissue Paper (pm). Wednesdays:  Mama Mia: Italian cooking YUM!(am).             …

Come meet the artist in residence!   Using Japanese Tissue Paper learn to create a collage of flowers, landscapes and your own masterpiece.  This workshop is for adults between 18 and 28 who want to explore basic artistic skills.

Living an active lifestyle promotes physical and mental health and can decrease stress and anxiety considerably. Each monthly workshop will introduce new strategies and activities incorporate into your emotional toolbox that will help you stay calm and carry on. Learn about anxiety and how it affects you? Develop strategies to keep yourself calm? Learn how to maintain this…

Come and join Alana Shields Barker, Director of ImprovAbility! , for an Introduction to Improv Class for young adults at Integrated Autism Consulting.  Alana, an alumnus and teacher from The Second City Toronto (1988 – 1999), has developed this basic Improv class with a social focus. As a card-carrying wallflower, Alana experienced first-hand how improvisation…

A Model for Living a Good Life for People with Asperger Syndrome How to Apply: 1. Contact Integrated Autism Consulting and provide your Name, Age, Address, Phone Number and E-mail Address. 2. An application package will be forwarded. 3. Complete and return the application package with a $100.00 deposit. 4. Potential participants will be contacted…

Coming up in the next issue of Autism Ontario’s Autism Matters magazine, is this article “Transition to Life: A Model for Living a Good Life for People with Asperger Syndrome” by Patricia O’Connor, discussing the “Transition from secondary school to life is one of the most stressful times in the lives of young adults, but…