Capital District, NY

Your facilitator is Peter Rousseau (prousseau@grasp.org)

Who: Any adult on the spectrum is invited. Membership information is kept through the main GRASP office, so you must subscribe before you can attend.  This allows your membership to remain as anonymous as you desire.  We respectfully request that anyone in attendance not share with others the names of anyone else they have seen at a meeting.

Where and When: We will not be meeting during July or August 2011 but will resume meetings in September, on the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm at offices of Lexington Center Family Supports, 43 Harrison Street, Gloversville, NY 12078. Please see the GRASP calendar for details on upcoming meetings.

Below is our Topic Schedule for September 2011 through June 2012:

September, 2011        Exhuastion/Required Rest/Reasons for

October, 2011            Struggle with facial expressions

November, 2011         How to Recognize Stress Levels & How to Act to Decrease

December, 2011         Holiday Stress; What to Expect with the Unexpected

January, 2012            Concrete Thinking/ What this means to NT's

February, 2012           Relationships; friendships, family, and intimate

March, 2012               Bullying & AS; The Why; The How to Deal With It

April, 2012                  The Internet & Asperger Syndrome: How to Protect Yourself

May, 2012                  Patterns & Schedules; The Why; How to Manage

June, 2012                 Putting it all together in the workplace

Schedule:       

7:00pm-7:10pm              Introductions

7:10pm-8:00pm              Roundtable Topic Discussion

Cost: All GRASP groups are absolutely FREE to attend. However, GRASP survives on funding from foundations, corporations, and generous individuals. If you wish to donate to GRASP, we would gratefully appreciate it (and we’re almost certain to need it). You can make a tax-deductible donation with a credit card via our DONATE page or mail your check made out to GRASP to: GRASP, 666 Broadway, Suite 825, New York, NY 10012

GRASP Support Group Removal Policy
(out of over 6,500 people, we've luckily only had to use this 7 times.
But there'll be more— we are vulnerable by design as we do not demand that everyone bring often-expensive proof of diagnosis)