Free Photoshoot

Interested in a free photoshoot for your child/ children ?

Faces of Autism is a collaboration of professional photographers across Ireland volunteering their time to do free photoshoots for autistic children.

Visit their page here for more information ... Faces of Autism

Christmas Party

We have a choice of two dates for our Christmas Party this year ...

Saturday 15th downstairs or Sunday 16th Upstairs, the reason being there is another party booked in on the Sunday so we would have to be upstairs.

I was thinking 2 - 4 again.

Personally I don't see this being a problem, it gives the kids a safe space, and we can still use the bar downstairs, and we will have heating this time !

Please let me know ASAP which day you would prefer so we can book it officially.



On the day we will have another super craft Idea from Krisztina, this time in the shape of a tree !

we will also have plate painting ( I will post some picture examples soon ) and of course lots of pen and paper to color and draw.

Also, I have checked with the club and found that their social membership is a mere €10 a year per person.  this would give us insurance and also show our support to the club who have provided us with the space free for the last year.

I know times are tight but would really appreciate if some of you could sign up for this membership.

There will be no meeting December because of the party and it being a very busy time of year all round, so if I don't see you at the party I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and  Happy New Year.

Aine

Meeting Postponed

Apologies for the last minute change of meeting but circumstances were beyond my control.

Hope some of you can make it next week instead, it's that time of year when we need to decide on date, time etc for x-mas party and book it with the club so every ones input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks again

Aine

School of Holy Spirit Sale of work and Coffee morning

Folks,

Therese asked me to share this with you.

It's the school of the Holy Spirits coffee morning and sale of work on Sunday 25th November from 2pm till 5pm.

If anyone has and unwanted DVD's, books, bric and brac etc She is happy to collect . You can text me for her contact info.

Also on this Sat 2pm until 5pm is the O neill Centre " Previously loved clothes " sale.

Aine

CoderDojo

CoderDojo is an Irish led, global movement of coding clubs for young people. Come learn or teach to code, hack, develop websites, apps, games and more!Ireland

Time	Saturdays 2pm to 6pm
Location	St. Josephs Studios, Waterford Road, Kilkenny
Country	Ireland
Notes	A pack lunch. A laptop. Borrow one from someone if needs be. A parent! (Very important). If you are 18 or under, your parent must stay with you during the session.

Find out more here : CoderDojoKK

Halloween Party !

Proposed Date for Our alternative Halloween Party is Monday 29th ( time to be decided ).

Krisztina has very kindly offered to arrange a giant pumpkin sheet for the children to Decorate.
Two other Ideas are to make spooky Eyes that glow using loo roll/ kitchen roll tubes and glow sticks.

and to make traditional spooky pumpkins.

I can supply patterns for the pumpkins, so all you folks need to do is bring the supplies !!

Kids can come dressed how they like and as we did with the X-mas party if every family brings something to share we should have plenty to go around.

We are trying to steer as much towards healthy eating as possible so please keep this in mind.

Hope to see you all at the next meeting where we can finalise any ideas .

Aine

Proposed changed to the DSM form IV to V

Just an interesting link I found with regards to the changs being made in may next year to the DSM.

Some of you know already about the proposal to do away with the Diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, changing it instead to ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder and it seems there may also be classes with 3 levels of severity.

Below is a link to the DSM V Website, showing the proposed revision and the old DSM IV Criteria.

See what you think ....

DSM V