Free Online Autism Film Club

To celebrate World Autism Awareness Month in April, the UK organisation Ambitious about Autism is bringing some of the best and most recent films about autism straight to your computer screen. Called ‘Autism Film Club’, the programme will feature four online film screenings on our website during April 2012.

Films include:

The Austism Puzzle (4 April 2012 UK)

Neurotypical (11 April 2012 UK)

Animating Autism (18 April UK)

Loving Lampposts (25 April UK)

How to register:

All four Autism Film Club titles can be streamed for a 24 hour period at no charge; all you need is an Autism Film Club password and the links to the films which can be gained by registering for the emails. The password will be sent to you by email and is valid for all four Autism Film Club films.

Register online here.

Newsletter Volume 3 Issue 1

The March 2012 edition our newsletter (volume 3 issue 1) on mental health and intellectual disability in children and adolescents is now available.

Highlights include:

Mental Health Problems: Disorders of Social Development caused by maladaptation's of ‘Theory of Mind’? A Developmental Psychiatry View by Associate Professor David Dossetor

A focus on Fragile X Syndrome

Organisation Profile: WWILD-SVP

Conference Review: Translating Genetics to Phenotype: the Society for the Study for Behavioural Phenotypes Research Symposium, Brisbane

Justice Health School-Link Initiative: supporting young offenders get back on track through education.. by Kim Eisler

Transcribe 2011 Young writers entry: Some Miracles Work by Vivian Tran

Siblings Australia resources by Barbara Fleming

The Medicine Cabinet: Obesity- Problem of number and size by Judy Longworth

Upcoming training, Resources/reading list, In the news/reviews.

Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine Conference

The full program for the Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine (AADDM) 2012 Conference (March 8-10 2012) at UNSW is now available. Detailed information on sessions and presentations can be accessed through the

Program section of the website, and then by clicking on the summary table for each day.

As you can see mental health is a major component, with many eminent mental health professionals and advocates listed as speakers. The conference will be relevant to all mental health professionals who have an interest in the challenging area of mental health in intellectual and developmental disabilities. School-Link is presenting on the Saturday the 10th in the education and health stream, and we do hope to see you in the audience!!!

Mental Health e-journal from Y-Central

The new Y-Central (central Coast Local Health District) e-journal will provide latest citations on a range of topics related to general youth mental health, with topics covering: anxiety/depression; alcohol and other drug use; carers; children of parents with a mental illness (COPMI); disability; foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex; indigenous; non suicidal self-injury; psychosis; recovery; suicide; trauma and treatment.

Download on the e-journal here (8MB).

NDS NSW Annual State Conference 2012

The National Disability Services (NDS) NSW State Conference is being held on Monday 13 February – Tuesday 14 February 2012, at the Hilton, Sydney.

For a detailed program and registration information please visit the NDS website: http://www.nds.org.au/events/1317882370