E-Newsletter July 2007 #1
Here is your update on TACA (Talk About Curing Autism). If you are new to our site... WELCOME! This newsletter is produced two to four times each month.
We are a California autism education and support group. We want to make this e-newsletter informative for you. As always, email your thoughts and/or questions so we can improve it.
We focus on parent information and support, parent mentoring, dietary intervention, the latest in medical research, special education law, reviews of the latest treatments, and many other topics relating to autism. Our main goal is to build our community so we can connect, share and support each other.
Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) provides general information of interest to the autism community. The information comes from a variety of sources and TACA does not independently verify any of it. The views expressed herein are not necessarily TACA’s.
In this month's edition:
- TACA's 3rd Annual Friends & Family Campaign - THANK YOU FOR HELPING TACA!
- TACA Group Meetings
- TACA Cooking Classes
- TACA Calendar Quick View
- General News
- Vaccines News
- The United Kingdom Autism Rates Rise to 1 in 58 Children. CAMPAIGN TO HELP DR. ANDREW WAKEFIELD!! ACTION ALERT!
- Maloney/Weldon Vaccine Legislation
- More from David Kirby - Three New Entries
- More from Dan Olmsted & Generation Rescue: Vaccinated Children Two and a Half times More Likely to Have Neurological Disorders Like ADHD and Autism, New Survey in California and Oregon Finds
- Update on California Assembly Bill: AB 16
- Frequently Valued Information (FVI) – a new column
- Upcoming TACA Fun Activities
- Vendor Announcements
- Books & Web Sites
- TACA Volunteers NEEDED!
- Conferences, Seminars & Workshops
- Personal note
2 | TACA Has Eight California Meeting Locations |
Corona (Inland Empire) Costa Mesa (Orange County) Los Angeles (Newly Added!) San Diego Santa Rosa Torrance (South Bay) Visalia (Tulare County/San Joaquin Valley) West Hills (San Fernando Valley) |
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3 | TACA GFCF Cooking Classes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chef Lisa Ackerman will provide a brief gluten-free/casein-free cooking class featuring a variety of “kid favorite” foods that are healthy options, fast to make, and crowd pleasers for the family. Join us for fun and GFCF kid-friendly foods!
California Integrative Hyperbaric Center, 16251 Laguna Canyon Road Suite 175, Irvine CA 92618, 949-428-8878 Junly 25 – 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Per person fee $15 Menu based on registered attendees' selection of TACA’s most popular recipes. |
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7 | TACA Frequently Valued Information – NEW |
A new feature for the TACA eNews for families – Frequently Valued Information (FVI) The goal of FVI is to provide updates and “need to knows” quickly to make your life easier! This month’s FVI edition: I WANT TICKETS TO JACK FM’s SHOW! TACA does not have connections for the show. The best bet: Go to www.931jackfm.com and sign up for the LEAGUE OF ORDINARY LISTENERS. They will email you ticket pre-sale information. Write an essay about “HOW TACA HAS HELPED MY FAMILY” and win two tickets for the August 18, 2007 show! More details in the next TACA Enews! |
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8 | Upcoming TACA Activities |
Just for FUN – once a month
Come join your TACA friends at PUMP IT UP in Huntington Beach, Lake Forest and newly added Rancho Cucamonga and Sorrento Valley for some good ol’ family fun! See schedule |
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9 | Vendor Announcements | ||||||||||||||
California Integrative Hyperbaric Center “Family Support Night” Group Meetings (Newly Added!)
VIDEO LINKS ANNOUNCING NEW SERVICES - BLOOD DRAWS & IV TREATMENT SERVICES: OMNIBUS – VACCINE HEARINGS Want more information about the hearings? Daily audio and transcripts can be obtained at: ftp://autism.uscfc.uscourts.gov/autism/index.html For general information visit: http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/OSM/OSMAutism.htm To access the audio conference portion: US/Canadian participants dial: (888-638-9716) Please tell the operator you are calling to join the autism hearing. Walgreens Makes an EFFORT to Hire Disabled Individuals See news segment on Walgreen's commitment to hiring the disabled and, SIGNIFICANTLY -- the efficiencies it has brought to the company. Thanks to a VP with a child affected by autism. Two Families from IOWA provide AMAZING TV COVERAGE ON AUTISM Stunning coverage. KCAU-TV coverage for a second day has presented the best coverage on the reality about the autism epidemic. http://www.kcautv.com/ If you hit this link, you'll see Autism Argument: Part Two (on the left is also a link to Autism Argument: Part One) Sensaria Natural Bodycare Good News (20% discount all of the time), Bad News (discontinued 32-oz Shampoo /Conditioner) My daughter says “what’s the good news first”. The good news is that you can now sign up for a new program that I am able to offer and receive your 20% discount 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is the Premier Member program. For only $25, you’ll receive exceptional benefits for an entire year and will be treated to exclusive product specials as well as 20% off of your Sensaria products. Exclusive special offers will be emailed to you twice a month and you will not have to wait to order or receive them only at TACA meetings. Contact me for more information on this and to sign up. The bad news is that the 32-oz Shampoo and Conditioners will be discontinued as of August 1st. The 16-oz sizes will still be available at the cost of $15 each retail ($12 for Premier Members). You can stock up this month if you like the 32-oz size until supplies last. These should stay good for up to two years (guaranteed for one year) by not opening them and keeping them in a cool, dark cabinet. Your 20% discount as a TACA member applies. Sensaria is coming out with several new products and has created a great way to put together your own personalized skin care system. Go to the website to see these new products or ask me to mail you a new catalog. Don’t forget about having your own Spa Class and earn products for free and half off. Jamie Davis, (562) 431-1866, pampered@adelphia.net, www.mysensaria.com/jamie FACT SURVEY FACT is a small not for profit community offering support to families living with ASD. Currently FACT is looking to offer its services to Orange County families. We would like to determine what services families would find helpful and where they would be best located. Since we are a not for profit we plan to make these services available to all families. We have placed a survey on our website and would appreciate having families complete it. It can be accessed by going to www.factfamily.org. The link to the survey is on the home page. We will be in touch with those families who respond as quickly as possible. Thank you. Also, please feel free to join us in San Clemente on Saturday July 21. Please email Carin at factorangecounty@gmail.com so that we can make a place to meet you. |
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10. | Books and Web Sites |
CHANGING THE COURSE OF AUTISM –
By Bryan Jepson & Jane Johnson A great book to give to a naysayer, June 14, 2007 By Lisa Ackerman Parents, family and friends of children affected by autism: This is an excellent book to buy several copies AND GIVE to the naysayers that you know. These are the folks that say Autism is not treatable.This is extremely well organized book with every study referenced in the back of the book. Every sentence is backed up with science. Parents need to know this is NOT a how-to book. Even if it was a how-to book - please work with a Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) Doctor to provide answers to your childs unique needs. Go to Autism Research Institute for that information on who is a doctor that treats autism and where to find them. By the time they finish the book - perhaps some minds will finally be changed. Instead of promoting NO HOPE or GOD FORBID FALSE HOPE - this book presents FACTS. Autism is treatable. Thanks team Thoughtful House. Well done. |
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11. | TACA Volunteer Opportunities |
TACA has grown so much over the past six years and our amazing volunteers help make TACA do what it does for families. Currently over 100 volunteers allow TACA to run and serve the almost 2300 families. Volunteer hours are crucial to our operations and so needed and appreciated. It is our goal to make volunteer positions available to those in our community (family, friends, vendors, and sometimes our parents) as times permits in our busy schedules! Please consider this options:
Thank you for considering a volunteer position at TACA. |
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Personal Note - JACK IS BACK! |
Just seeing this logo GETS ME EXCITED! The good news: our friends at JACK FM have adopted TACA for their Second Show! TACA will be the beneficiary of the $1 per ticket sales and other great fundraising activities for this fun event. The amazing part of this arrangement is all the TACA / Autism awareness that will be part of the promotional efforts. These promos will be aired on 93.1 Jack FM more than 30 times a day during the concert preparation efforts. What is so amazing is Jenny McCarthy helped a great deal with these announcements for TACA and for the autism community. For show details: www.931jackfm.com – Concert date: August 18, 2007 Announcement of the bands will be on Monday at 5 p.m. For tickets: Please do not contact TACA. Please sign up as for the LEAGUE OF ORDINARY LISTENERS for a shot at presale tickets. Location: Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine. Special thanks to our friends at Jack FM for bringing TACA back and support our efforts! WE LOVE JACK FM! And another special thanks to Jenny McCarthy for continuing her efforts to help TACA & the families we serve. Please stay tuned at JACK FM to hear all the concert, autism announcements, and TACA efforts! Your friend on the journey, Lisa A, Jeff & Lauren’s mom, Glen’s wife And Editor: Kim Palmer (thanks Kim!) |
Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) provides general information of interest to the autism community. The information comes from a variety of sources and TACA does not independently verify any of it. The views expressed herein are not necessarily TACA’s. TACA does not engage in lobbying or other political activities.
P.S. TACA e-news is now sent to 3,385 people! • Number of TACA families we serve: more than 2,300 |