The Care Farm, Castlemartyr

The Care Farm, Castlemartyr, is a small farm for children who have Autism Spectrum Disorders.

At the farm children engage in Animal Assisted Therapy, Horticultural activities and one on one tuition.

Through these activities the therapist helps the child to develop speech and language skills, fine and gross motor skills, social skills and academic skills.

The motive behind 'The Care Farm' is to provide an enjoyable yet educational experience for children who have ASDs.

 

The Care Farm also holds 'social skills workshops' on saturday afternoon. Children are encouraged to develop social skills and friendships through games and other activities. Children attend once a month. Groups are arranged according to age and abillity.

 

During July and August there are summer camps, with a maximum of six children per week.

Children who are in receipt of a home tuition grant may use some of this on visits to The Care Farm.

Please see the website for more details www.carefarm.ie or call Claire Owers 086 1718573

Try mixed ability Judo free in Swords and Kilkenny

We just completed our session in Tipperary at the weekend and it was a fantastic success.

We had a higher than usual number of children with Autism sign up for this session mainly due to the interest of a local Autistic support group.

We have two additional sessions planned for March which you may like to add to your site.

 Dublin: 3rd March, Applewood Community Centre, Swords, Dublin, kindly supported by the Fingal Sports Partnership.

Kilkenny: 24th March, Kilkenny Judo Club, Kilkenny, kindly supported by the Kilkenny Sports Partnership.

To book your FREE place please contact James on 086 061 2544 or contact your local Sports Partnership 

The benefits of iPads for children with autism.

Email geraldineP@BPI.ie or jen@autismireland.ie for more information.

Details of the gifts available can be found here.

Thank you to BPI Telecom for facilitating this scheme.

SN Social Club, Dublin 15

Hope Autism Care Centre is delighted to announce the launch of their Social Club on the 20^th of February. It will be a place for children with special needs to come and learn new skills and play games in a relaxed environment. 

Some of the things planned for the first term are basketball, football, an obstacle course, a sleepover experience day and arts and crafts. Also for the first term, we will be introducing road safety and a choice of an optional five week first aid class. 

It will run every Tuesday (15:30 – 17:30). Each class will be an hour long. 

The first aid will incur a minimal extra cost.

We will also have a weekly group for the siblings of children with special needs. 

Parents meetings will be held once a month and guest speakers include young adults with special needs living independently. 

The club will run according to the school calendar with some day trips planned for the Easter holidays and July (which will incur an extra cost) It will be supported by a team of experienced volunteers and is open to boys and girls and all levels of ability are welcome from the age of three up. 

We also have the support of the community Garda and Firemen and are working closely with the Dublin VEC (vocational educational committee). We will also be working with the Blanchardstown Centre for Independent living.

There will be a membership fee for this Social Club of €50 for 6 weeks (this is subject to change). The membership if you wish to have a child in the social club and sibling group will be €80. 

If you would like to find out more please call 0857321620 or email Dublin15sc@gmail.com for an application form. 

Sarah 

Dublin 15 Social Club Co-ordinator

Fermoy Action Childrens Education

New Year Cinema Event for Children with Special Needs (Dublin City Centre)

ABA Ireland invites children with special needs and their families to watch "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-wrecked"

When: Saturday, January 7, 2012 @ 10.30am

Where: Cineworld Dublin – Cineplex, Parnell St, Dublin 1 – Phone: 1520 880 444. 


Lifts, escalators and multi-storey car park behind cinema.

Cost: €15 per family of 4, siblings welcome (€3 charge per each person over the 4th).

Extras: Movie in 2D. Own snacks/drinks are allowed. No advertisements or trailers. Low lights & volume.

Please RSVP your name, *contact details and number of people attending via email:

Artika: artika@istepahead.com

OR

Charlotte: cruddenc@gmail.com

Tickets will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

*Contact details will only be used in conjunction with other up-coming ABA Ireland family events. Please advise to opt out of this.

Please feel free to invite anyone you think would enjoy this event!

Toy Show Experience

Ireland's first ever Toy ShowExperience will take place in the Convention Centre Dublin on the 4th 5th &6th November 2011. The Toy Show Experience is a new event for children of allages, where they get to play and experience all the toys that they see ondisplay. The show will feature all the latest toys from the top toymanufacturers with Hamleys, Eurocycles, Toymaster, Eurobaby, Leinster Rugby,GAA, FAI International Education Services and Dublin City Libraries are onboard. We will also have aSpecial Needs section sponsored by Thinking Toys with a specially designedsensory area. Disney and Paramount pictures are contributing to our setdesign with Peppa Pig, the Official Puss in Boots Mascot and Jedward as ourspecial guests..

The Toy Show Experience is a show for children and about children unlike anyother trade/family show around. Our target age group is 3-12 year olds and 20 -45 year old parents with an estimate attendance of 15,000 people over the 3days. We will also be hosting a VIP/Media evening on the Thursday.

Our website www.toyshowexperience.com, is a very interactive site to encourage repeat visits from children andparents alike. This will keep the Toy Show Experience in the forefront ofpeople's minds and it's also an opportunity to promote your products on ourwebsite. Our Facebook page has generated over 14,000 followers in last 2 weeks,which is quite amazing and any new links announced on it are benefittinggreatly.

Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster and are going really well. We hope tohave the event sold out for Saturday and Sunday. 10% will go to Temple StreetChildren's Hospital.