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 [...]
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 [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | November 23, 2009
** REMINDER: No workshops over the Thanksgiving weekend **
All the workshops this last weekend were incredibly focused – lots of great energy and lots of great work was done. Chelsea filmed the Friday group this week. Her documentary is beginning to take shape. She will be filming interviews in the coming weeks and plans [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | November 9, 2009
Time warp! It’s been well over 2 weeks since the last newsletter. We’ve been super busy around here. We had a great time at the GGRC Service Provider Fair. Lots of people stopped by the Autistry table and asked for more information. Steven’s Factory on a Cloud diorama and Sarah’s Super Robot Monkey plushie were [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | October 18, 2009
The house seemed so quiet this weekend without the Saturday and Sunday workshops!
We spent Sunday morning at the new Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio. It is fabulous. But be prepared for sensory overload. There are several film exhibitions in each room all running simultaneously. This creates a cacophony of competing sounds that [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | October 6, 2009
Full moon energy hit Autistry Studios this weekend! Everyone was going at hyper speed – lots of fun, lots of productivity, lots of chaos.
Be sure to check out the new photo gallery page.
The Friday College Support and Build Stuff Workshop: The Friday group has expanded to include building projects. We kicked off this week by [...]
Dan Swearingen | October 4, 2009
We’ve added a new permanent page under Programs / Photo Galleries where we will post links to the Flickr galleries of all the photos from the classes that we upload.
Janet Lawson, MFT | September 21, 2009
We had a very full and exciting weekend here. Everyone did such a great job at the Marin Autism Resource Fair. The phone has been ringing with families wanting to know more about the Autistry programs. Huge thank yous to Kris, Sarah, Breton, Corey and Steven for staffing the table and being such awesome ambassadors. [...]
Dan Swearingen | September 12, 2009
I’m beat! The presentation and the Resource Fair went very well. I’ll post more about the fair and our presentation later but we had some requests for a copy of the slides we used.
Here it is in PDF (Acrobat Reader): Preparing our Teens to Work
Dan Swearingen | September 11, 2009
Janet and I are presenting a mini workshop “Preparing our Teens to Work” this weekend at the CONNECTING PEOPLE TO RESOURCES resource fair tomorrow at Dominican University in San Rafael.
Besides the mini workshop we will be manning a table displaying some student projects and information about Autistry Studios. Several Autistry Studios parents and students have [...]
