Parent Support Groups
Under the auspices of the New South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children (NSWAGTC), Carol Barnes is the convenor of a support group for parents and teachers of children who are gifted with learning disabilities (GLD). Carol also writes a regular column onGLD for Gifted, the NSWAGTC journal, and frequently contributes other articles on a variety of topics.The Autism Parent Support Group began in 2003 with only three mothers.
Regardless of a discouraging low attendance for the first year of the
Support Group, Dr. Kairam continued to hold monthly group meetings on
the first Monday of every month until the group steadily grew from ten
mothers, to 15, to currently 35 mothers and 3 fathers. The group is
currently run by Dr. Kairam, a developmental pediatrician, Dr. Ellis
Arnstein, and a pediatric social worker, Josefina Rivera. Together, they
noticed an evolution from the three mothers quietly sitting and
listening to him speak in their isolated respective corners of the room
to parents who had been there since day one interjecting and asking if
they could share personal triumphs and struggles with new parents to now
cell phone numbers being exchanged for group day trips to the Bronx Zoo
and places where there are “autism-friendly” barber shops in the Bronx.
The group members became more than just parents all sharing a common
ground of having a child with autism, but transformed into each others’
educators and shoulders to lean on.
Parent Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
Parent Support Groups
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