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The Ovspring Developmental Clinic will be having their 2^nd run of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) 3-Day Clinician Training.

Start Date: 29 February 2008

End Date: 4 March 2008

Activity Type: Medical Professionals, Psychologists, Speech-language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists & other EI team members

Time: 09:00:00

Venue: To be announced

Faculty: Lucia T. Horowitz, B.Sc, M.A., Ph.D. (University of South Carolina), Licensed and Certified School Psychologist

Description
The 3-day training for clinicians on the The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) will benefit professionals who are proficient in clinical assessment of individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities, who are keen to be trained in the use of the ADOS are welcomed to apply on a first come first serve basis. The professional should also be proficient in working with children through play and direct interaction. Over the course of the workshop, participants will attend a combination of lectures and observe the demonstration of a “live” coding session by the trainers. Following training, the participants may purchase practice videos / DVDs and ADOS kits from Western Psychological Services (WPS) for independent administration practice. This training will benefit participants who already have another team member who is already reliable on the ADOS. Priority will be given to participants with team member(s) in the same institution who have attained reliability.

Fee: SGD 1142.70 (incl GST)

Closing Date: 1 February 2008

Local Sponsor / Administrator
Ovspring Developmental Clinic Pte Ltd
1 Fifth Avenue #02-02 & #03-04 Guthrie Hse (off Sixth Avenue) Singapore 268802
Main Line: +65 64668090 Fax: +65 64671344
Email: training@ovspring.com

I know a lot of people who are itching to see Charice Pempengco's second performance in the Korean show Star King. Out of 50 nominees, she was voted by the viewers as their top overseas guest they would like to see again in the show.

Oh God, I can't believe it's now 2008 and the holiday break is over. I guess some of the books I got last Christmas have to wait a bit, including:

• Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper from Lara
  
• The Last Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency by Jim Bellows from Don
  
• Magyk (Septimus Heap Book 1) by Angie Sage from Ate Carol
• Flyte (Septimus Heap Book 2) by Angie Sage from Ate Carol

And oh, in case you haven't read it, the main story in the December 2007 issue of the PJR Reports is how media covered the Manila Pen siege last Nov. 29 and how the journalists felt it was they and their profession that were under attack by the end of the day.

A confrontation on basic issues
The Siege of the Pen
PJR Reports December 2007
by Booma Cruz, Junette B. Galagala and Hector Bryant L. Macale

Reviewing the video footage that she took while talking to a Magdalo soldier on the balcony in the Manila Peninsula during the siege, Probe producer Zanneth Tafalla froze for a few seconds and gasped. She called her colleagues to look at the tape.

On the television screen, the soldier—who was wearing the red and white armband that was the symbol of the Magdalo group—was calmly telling Tafalla, “Umiwas na kayo (Save yourselves).” Until the producer reviewed the tape, she did not notice that a red dot from the gunsight of a sniper stationed somewhere was being aimed between the eyes of the soldier who was asking her to leave.

If the sniper had pulled the trigger, Tafalla knew that she would never get over the horror of seeing a man killed right in front of her.

Tafalla and about a hundred members of media were inside the Manila Peninsula when former Navy Lieutenant Senior Grade Antonio Trillanes IV, now an elected senator, and Army Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim led a few dozen soldiers in calling for the withdrawal of public support from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Many other journalists covered from outside the hotel.

“It seemed like a regular coverage… until the intermittent gunshots (were fired) and the tear gas (was lobbed). You didn’t fear for your life when you were holding your camera. But there was tension all throughout,” said Hera Sanchez, senior producer-reporter of Probe.

Sanchez was stationed at the hallway of the second floor where Trillanes, Lim, and their supporters were holed up in a room monitoring the situation.

Read more here.