Tameside Action for Social Communication & Autism

World Autism Awareness Day Event
Dukinfield Town Hall, 25th March 2010

Tameside Action for Social Communication & Autism (TASCA) are hosting an event for World Autism Awareness day at Dukinfield Town Hall. The day will be held 25th March 2010, between 10.00am and 4.00pm.

The event is open to parents/carers, family members, friends of autistic children & adults, and professionals seeking more information on autism.

The day will be attended by the following organisations and groups, all of which you can meet:

• TASCA
• Integrated Services for Children with Additional Needs
• Direct payments (adult & children)
• Parent partnership, Portage
• The National Autistic Society
• T3SC
• Communication Language & Autism Spectrum Support
• Family Information Services
• The carers centre
• The Young carers
• Aiming High
• Adult services
• Community Police
• Tameside Fostering services
• ASGMA
• Connexions, The sunshine group
• Our Kids Eyes
• CAMHS
• Multi Agency Autism Team
• & many more

 

More information on TASCA

TASCA is a parent run support group for families with children (0-16yrs) living in the Tameside and Glossop area with autism, communication & social difficulties.

The group was originally set up in January 2001 primarily to meet the need for somewhere for parent’s and carer’s to turn should they require information, or simply have a chat with other families in a similar situation.

A carer could be an brother, sister, auntie ,uncle, grandma, grandad, or anyone over the age of 21.

TASCA's parents & carers meets at rose hill children’s centre once a month for a chat over a cuppa, with professionals from different sectors of the health service & Tameside Council attending throughout the year giving help, advice & information parents & carers may seek.

Available at the coffee morning is TASCA’s lending library where parents & carers are able to borrow books & DVDs on a wide range of aspects of autism & social communication difficulties.

Trips

During the school holidays we arrange trips to local parks, leisure activities or coach trips to zoo’s, farms & theme parks. Trips this year included Greenacres farm, Chester zoo, Alton towers, Eureka! & many more.

For next years events, please fill in the referral form.

TASCA in association with Slide and Seek playcentre

The Northwest’s largest play Centre hold a monthly coffee evening, with exclusive use for tasca children & their siblings. For more information contact Valerie on 07931466417.

Contact information

To contact TASCA:

Telephone: Valerie Bayley on 07931466417
E-mail: tasca4u@ntlworld.com
Website: www.tasca.org.uk