FREE (or Inexpensive) Activities This Summer

Endeavor Adapted & Inclusive Recreation

• Basketball
  Saturdays June 6, 13, 20, 27 (10am-11am)
  Players of all ages and abilities are encouraged to come out for basketball at the Gainesville Health & Fitness Centeron Newberry Road in Gainesville.
  As always, volunteer “buddies” are welcome and encouraged to come out and support Endeavor players.
  

• Paint and Play Dates
  Wednesdays June 10th, 17th, and 24th, July 1st and 8 (6pm to 7:30pm)
  Participants will paint (pictures, not the building) and play at the NW Boys & Girls Club of Alachua County 2700 NW 51st Street, Gainesville, FL 32606
  Painters and players of ALL ages and abilities are invited!
  

• Adapted Aquatics, all summer!
  Contact: Will & Shelly Voelker at 352-275-9639 or fcc3a@att.net
  For more details about all three activities visit http://endeavorrecreation.wetpaint.com/
  

Harn Museum’s Family Day: Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction

June 20, 2009 (1pm-4pm)
Join us for a tour of Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction. Afterward, children will have the opportunity to create their own collage inspired by the work on display. At 2:30PM there will be a special performance in the gallery by storyteller Ann Marie Mulhearn Sayer, a friend of the artist.
http://www.harn.ufl.edu

Regal Entertainment Group’s Free Family Film Festival

Nine weeks of movies for kids and parents. Selected G & PG movies start at 10AM each Tuesday and Wednesday during the festival. First-come, first-served seating is limited to theatre capacity. Tickets are exclusively available at select theatres’ box office on the day of the show. Find a participating theater in your area: http://www.regmovies.com/nowshowing/familyfilmfestivalschedule.aspx?state=FL

Do you know of any fun summer activities occurring in your area? Please email us with the information so that we can share it with other families!

FREE Workshop about Building Social Relationships!

Building Social Relationships: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Social Interaction Skills to Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 9am – 4pm
Gainesville, FL

This workshop will provide an overview of a social skill instructional model developed by Dr. Bellini. The workshop integrates research on social-emotional functioning with effective strategies for teaching social skills to children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The five-step model provides a systematic and comprehensive framework to guide parents and practitioners in the development and implementation of social skills programming.

Training Objectives
• Increase knowledge of social and emotional functioning
• Increase awareness of the relationship between social skill deficits and social anxiety
• Develop skills necessary to assess social functioning
• Increase awareness of skill acquisition versus performance deficits
• Develop skills necessary to implement social skills strategies
• Increase awareness of available social skill strategies

***REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY***
DEADLINE: July 14, 2009
Register online at www.doepartnership.org/training.asp

For more information contact:
Leannis Maxwell
1-800-9-AUTISM 352-846-3455 daisies@ufl.edu