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2011
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| Aug 11 |
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Training for New Student Discussion Group facilitators
9:30-11:00 am, EB 146. (To register for a facilitator training session, email jsizemor@uab.edu or call 996-6420.)
Training for New Student Discussion Group facilitators
6:00-7:30 pm, HHB 124
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| Aug 12 |
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Training for New Student Discussion Group facilitators
9:30 -11:00 am, EB 146 |
| Aug 15 |
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| 12:45-1:20 pm |
New students check in at Alys Stephens Center lobby |
| 1:30- 1:35 pm |
Welcome by President Garrison |
| 1:35- 2:45 pm |
Presentation by Dr. Temple Grandin |
| 2:45- 3:00 pm |
New students led to classrooms across campus |
| 3:00- 4:30 pm |
New Student Discussion Groups |
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| Aug 30 |
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UAB Discussion Book Night at the Birmingham Museum of Art for students, faculty, staff, and families, 6:00-8:00 pm. Free bus shuttle between Blazer Hall and Birmingham Museum of Art beginning at 5:30. Free refreshments, presentations, collection tours, and activities. |
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UAB Discussion Book Dialogues, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Third Thursday, September 2011-April 2012, in Heritage Hall Building Room 549. These events are free and open to the general public.
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| Sept 15 |
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Fred Biasini, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, and Maria Hopkins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology, UAB College of Arts and Sciences. "Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Do the Eyes Have It?" |
| Oct 20 |
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Karen Bowen Dahle, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. of Special Education, Curiculum and Instruction, UAB School of Education. "Personal Stories of a Successful Individual with Autism" |
| Nov 17 |
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Rajesh Kana, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology, UAB College of Arts and Sciences, and Director, UAB Autism Brain Imaging Research Laboratory. "Autism as a Distributed Neural Systems Disorder" |
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2012
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| Jan 19 |
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Sarah O'Kelley, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Civitan International Research Center, and Martha Slay Wingate, DrPH, Assistant Professor, Health Care Organization and Policy, UAB School of Public Health. "Autism in Alabama" |
| Feb 16 |
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Michele Forman and Rosie O'Beirne, Co-Directors of Digital Film Studies, UAB College of Arts and Sciences, with student ethnographic films, "Under One Roof" about Mitchell's Place and "Let Everything Flow" about Studio by the Tracks' adult autistic art program filmmaking courses |
| Mar 15 |
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Dorrie Fuchs, Assistant Director, Special Equestrians, Inc. "Special Equestrians, Special People" |
| Apr 19 |
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Erin Hardin, M.Ed., Teaching Artist, VSA Alabama. "A Different Point of View: Exploring Autism through the Arts" |
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If you have a question about any event, please contact Juanita Sizemore at 996-6420 or jsizemor@uab.edu.
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