End of year request for your donations to Autistry Studios

Dan Swearingen | December 26, 2009

We have had a great year at Autistry Studios but we would like to take this opportunity to ask for your additional help before we launch into a new year.

This week we would especially appreciate any donations you could make of either cash or tools and materials.
United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay has generously [...]

Autistry Studios Newsletter – December 25, 2009

Janet Lawson, MFT | December 25, 2009

The Fall 2009 workshops came to a close with great progress on projects, lots of lessons learned, and many new friends made. We are looking forward to working with everyone in the next series which begins with our new Tuesday Build Stuff Workshop on January 12th. We have spoken to most of you but do [...]

Event: Parent support group for parents of children and adolescents with autism

Dan Swearingen | December 9, 2009

Doug Lipinski is the dad of one of our first students and he has been doing parent group meetings for several years here in Marin.
This meeting is for Moms and Dads but Doug also runs a regular Dads meeting. Please contact Doug at his email below if you have any questions.
From Doug:
Come and discuss strategies [...]

Film report: Ben X

Dan Swearingen | December 4, 2009

Ben X is a 2007 film from Belgium about an extreme Aspie teenager who is relentlessly bullied in and around his high school. Ben’s solace is his role playing game persona (“BenX”) and his online relationship with a healer character “Scarlite.”

Bad Things happen to him. Ben is driven past his limits and it is unclear [...]