Latest Stories from the QSAC Blog
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Do We Hear “Four?”
After years of people asking us to bring back QSAC’s charity golf tournament, we’ve decided that 2012 is the year! We are in the early stages of planning this year’s golf outing for this fall and would love to have you involved. If you’re interested in volunteering, serving on the...
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QSAC Program Participants Celebrate Success
On the night of April 23, four of QSAC’s consumers - Parsram, Brian, Kyle, and Spiridon - were presented with awards from the Queens Council on Developmental Disabilities for successfully overcoming challenges and for making outstanding gains in the programs they attend. Lisa Veglia, Deputy Executive Director of QSAC said,...
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Brandon Learns to Ride a Bike
Brandon pedals for the first time. Most nineteen year old teenagers have the freedom to go to the park and enjoy riding a bike on a nice spring day. They do so without appreciating that they have the coordination and skills to ride without any difficulty. Brandon is a nineteen year old...
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Hundreds Gather to Learn More About Autism
QSAC’s annual autism conference was a huge success. On Thursday, April 19, more than 200 people gathered for a day-long agenda of workshops on a variety of topics. Conference workshops included an introduction to autism, language and communication, increasing independence, feeding challenges and a special series on adolescent sexuality. QSAC’s Executive...
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Autism and Infectious Behaviors
According to the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring, an active surveillance system network that estimates the prevalence of ASDs from 14 sites in the USA, the overall prevalence of ASDs during 2008 was 1 in 88 children. Their data suggest that the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder between 2000 to...
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