Blog Archive 2013

Katherine George, esq. Chair of WAAA Education Committee, Legal Analyst Congratulations! In response to comments and call to action from Washington Autism Alliance & Advocacy (WAAA) and our formal Petition to Rulemaking. A. WAC 392-172A-03120: Aversive Interventions We avoided adoption of the proposed language that aversive interventions are designed to teach appropriate behavior.  It is […]

Do you have a favorite professional or service you’d like to add to the WAAA Resource Directory? You can submit a listing, review and rating!  It's simple, takes a couple of minutes.    Click “submit A Listing” (login required). To edit or update an existing listing, please log in, find the listing and click “edit” and “save […]

Parents of adult kids with autism are creating jobs that play to their strengths — like starting a T-shirt silk-screening shop if they are artistic, or organic farms if they like to work outdoors. Lori Ireland and a handful of other parents in Chapel Hill, N.C., had a simple dream: They wanted their teenage children […]

  WAAA is proud to have provided 55 scholarships to IDEA-Blueprints to Special Education  held on September 18th in Federal Way.       Attorneys Katherine George and Michael Wiggins provided us with invaluable information on navigating the educational rights of students with ASD's. Most in attendance provide mental health counseling to low-income students, and their families […]