When: May 10, 2012, 7:00 pm
Where: W2 Media Café, 111 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
Cost: Free
Join us in a discussion as we compare and contrast social rejection and social acceptance, try to better understand interactions with peers, whether positive or negative, and consider how we can promote acceptance of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Experts:
- Grace Iarocci, PhD, R. Psych, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Autism & Developmental Disorders Lab, SFU
- Anthony Bailey, MBBS, Institute of Mental Health Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry, UBC
- Elizabeth Kelley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Director of ASD Studies, Queen’s University
Moderator:
Grace Iarocci and Emily Gardiner, Autism & Developmental Disorders Lab, SFU
This event is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and is intended to be an outreach initiative aimed at providing information and sparking informal discussion with the general public related to autism and bullying.
Please RSVP by May 3, 2012 to sfuautismcafe@gmail.com as seating is limited.