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Friday
Sep292017

Westmead Feelings Program Launch

The Westmead Feelings Program resources, were launched by the Children's Hospital at Westmead and ACER at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Sydney on September 9.  Westmead Feelings Program 1 is a 15-month intervention program teaching children with autism spectrum disorder and mild intellectual disability about emotional understanding and social awareness, in close collaboration with parents, teachers and facilitators. Westmead Feelings Program 1 was previously known as the Emotion Based Social Skills Program, but has now been updated and published by ACER.

The accompanying resources and online professional learning are now available on the ACER website here.