| Other Support
You can locate information about support groups in other areas of the country on the OASIS website at www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/support.html. Some of the groups listed on that site are Asperger Syndrome specific. However, they would be relevant for the parent of any child with a high functioning autism spectrum disorder.
Another extensive list can be found on the website for the group MAAP Services (MAAP Services for Autism and Asperger Syndrome.) This is a website with an international listing of persons, agencies and organizations who help support individuals, families and professionals who work or live with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Website: www.maapservices.org
Email contact: chart@netnitco.net
CONNECTICUT Connecticut
Autism Spectrum Resource Center
Contact: (203) 248-5222
Farmington Valley
Asperger's Network
A support group for parents of children with Asperger's
Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism and PDD-Nos
Location: Simsbury, CT
Contacts: Gillian Smits
(860) 408 9147
Katherine Spencer-Molloy
(860) 651 4993
GRASP Southern New England
Monthly meetings for adults diagnosed along the autism
spectrum. Meetings are held in Wallingford, CT on the
second Friday of each month from 6-8 p.m. plus a yahoogroup
for outside discussion.
GRASP
Executive Director, Michael John Carley, facilitates.
Subscribe through GRASP's website at GRASP-
Subscription information
Then go to GRASP
- Meeting Place and Directions.
Contact:
646.242.4003 for questions
HUDSON
VALLEY (New York)
Parent
Support Network
Contact:
845.359.6090
LONG
ISLAND (New York)
GRASP
Long Island
Monthly meetings for adults diagnosed along the autism
spectrum. Meetings are held in Bethpage one Saturday
of each month from 4-6 p.m. plus a yahoogroup for outside
discussion. Meetings facilitated by a GRASP co-facilitator
and member of GRASP.
Subscribe through GRASP's website at GRASP
- Subscribe
(http://www.grasp.org/subsc.htm)
Then go to GRASP
- Meeting place and directions or to
(http://www.grasp.org/res_sg.htm
for meeting place and directions)
AHA's
support page for directions
- http://www.ahany.org/sg_adult.htm
Contact:
646.242.4003 for questions
The
Elija Foundation - Serving parents, educators,
professionals and
caregivers
of children with ASDs. Utilizing research based treatment
(Applied Behavior Analysis (A.B.A) as their firm foundation
of intervention) they strive to keep their educational
programs for their children effective, exciting, enjoyable,
well-rounded, non static and based on the most current
research findings.
Email: elija@optonline.com
Phone: 516.433.4321
Nassau
Suffolk Autism Society of America (NSASA)
CHADD
(Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder)
Webpages list meeting information and are updated monthly:
CHADD
of Nassau County:
CHADD
of Suffolk County:
CHADD
of NYC:
GRANDPARENT
SUPPORT - GASAK I and GASAK II
Grandparent
Advocates Supporting
Autistic Kids (GASAK)is
a support, information and advocacy group of concerned
grandparents of children on the autism spectrum. At
these meeting for networking and sharing experiences
there will also be resource tables with useful information
for programs and services available to families of children
with autism.The groups are co-led by Judy Greenberg,
the grandparent of a child on the autism spectrum. There
is no fee for the meetings and everyone is welcome.
GASAK
I - NASSAU
GASAK I meets on the last Thursday of the month from
11:30 am - 1:00 pm at 480 Old Westbury Road, Roslyn
Heights, NY 11577. For further information and directions
please contact:
Margo
Messina at 516.626.1971 ext 370.
GASAK
II - SUFFOLK
COUNTY
GASAK II meets monthly on Wednesdays from 10:00am -
11:30am at the Cody Center,
Port Jefferson, NY. At this meeting for networking and
sharing experiences will also be a resource table, with
useful information for programs and services available
to families of children with autism. Refreshments will
be served. For further information contact Ellen
Woodward at 631.632.3127.
NEW ENGLAND
Asperger's
Association of New England
Phone: (617) 527-2894
Contact:
Stephanie Loo
NEW JERSEY
ASPEN,
Inc.
Contact: Lori Shery (732) 321-0880
New
Jersey Adult Issues
Contact: Florence
Cohen and Mary
Meyer
Phone: (732) 536-2916
NEW YORK
GRASP Manhattan
Monthly meetings for adults diagnosed along the autism
spectrum. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of
each month from 6-8 p.m. plus a yahoogroup for outside
discussion. Meetings facilitated by GRASP's executive
director Michael John Carley.Subscribe
through GRASP's website at: (http://www.grasp.org/subsc.htm)
For further information: www.grasp.org
Contact: (646) 242-4003 for questions.
Manhattan GRASP Meetings
339 West 24th Street - Community Room
(between 8th and 9th Avenues),
Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of every month
from 6-8 p.m.
JCC Manhattan The JCC in Manhattan and
FEGS introduce Adaptations,
the Young Adult Life Skills Network. Adaptations
offers college-educated young adults- people in their
20s and 30s- needing special support, the benefit of
a supportive environment as you work toward achieving
your life goals. Adaptations
offers a wide variety of opportunities from social activities
to ways to improve interpersonal skills, explore career
options, and more. Both daytime and evening activities
are available.
Contact Melissa Jacobs at 646-505-4367 or at mjacobs@jccnyc.org.
Website:http://www.jccmanhattan.org/adaptations.
PENNSYLVANIA
ASCEND
ASCEND Group, Inc., an Asperger Syndrome information
alliance for Southeastern Pennsylvania. A group similar
in activities to AHA.
Email: info@ascendgroup.org
GRASP Philadelphia
Monthly meetings for adults diagnosed along the autism
spectrum plus a yahoogroup for outside discussion. GRASP
Advisory Board member Bob Hedin, facilitates.
Subscribe through GRASP's website at GRASP
- Subscribe
(http://www.grasp.org/subsc.htm)
Email: rehedin@aol.com
for questions, meeting place, and directions.
GRASP Erie
Monthly meetings for adults diagnosed along the autism
spectrum plus a yahoogroup for outside discussion. GRASP
Advisory Board member Trista Rupp Plott, facilitates.
Subscribe through GRASP's website at GRASP
- Subscribe
(http://www.grasp.org/subsc.htm)
Email: aspergers@hotmail.com
for questions, directions and meeting place.
Virginia
GRASP Williamsburg
Monthly meetings for adults diagnosed along the autism
spectrum.
GRASP member Katie Brazier facilitates.
Subscribe through GRASP's website at GRASP
- Subscribe
(http://www.grasp.org/subsc.htm)
Email: katiebrazier@msn.com
for questions, directions, and meeting place.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Asperger Adults of Greater Washington
A support, social and advocacy group that welcomes adults with Asperger's, high functioning autism, nonverbal learning disorder, semantic pragmatic disorder and PDD-NOS.
Members may be professionally or self-diagnosed.
Meets monthly in downtown Washington.
Contact: info@aagw.net
Website: http://www.aagw.net
WESTCHESTER (New York)
WestchesterParentLink
- Support for Parents of School-Age Children
Email: Kay
Phone: Susan at 914-763-0971
Kay at 914-666-2099
Support
for Parents of Adult Children with High Functioning
Autism/PDD/Asperger's Syndrome.
The
group will meet on the fourth Sunday of the month from
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at Blythedale Children's Hospital
on Bradhurst Avenue in Valhalla, Westchester County,
NY.
Please join us for support and information and to discuss
the many issues related to your adult child's disability.
We will also feature speakers covering topics of interest
to the group.
For further information:
Phone:
Judy at 914-526-3329
Email:
Judyomid@aol.com.
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