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Autism Awareness Day
September 19
Special Discount Price!

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Celebrate a day of fun with the autistic community.  For only $35 per person your ticket includes:            

  • All-you-can-eat picnic of BBQ Chicken, Western Style Beans, Fresh Garden Salad, Soft Drinks & Ice Cream Novelties served from 11:30am-12:30pm (unlimited beverage service from 10:30am -1:00pm)
  • Autism organizations support groups exhibits
  • A great opportunity to gather with the autistic community
  • A ticket to participate in our raffle.
    (Season Passholders can purchase a picnic only ticket for $13.)
If you are looking for ways to get involved please contact  Kelly.Carlsted@cagreatamerica.com.

Schedule for Autism Awareness Day
10:00am Park Opens
10:00am-3:00pm Partners have booths in Celebration Plaza
10:30am-1:00pm Sensory Stations and Water Balloon Toss set up in the back of the Picnic Grove
11:30am-12:30pm Picnic in the Picnic Grove
(11:30am-12:30pm with unlimited beverage service from 10:30am -1:00pm)
1:00pm-2:00pm Key note speaker Paul Nussbaum* in Showtime Theater
1:00pm-3:00pm Scavenger Hunt at Alpha Xi Delta Sorority’s booth
2:15pm-2:45pm Nick Guzman performs on Celebration Plaza stage
2:45pm Raffle on Celebration Plaza stage
3:00pm Vendors Leave
3:00pm-4:00pm Bsides 60’s band performs on Celebration Plaza stage
4:00pm Dora the Explorer Sing-A-Long at Nickelodeon Theater
5:00pm Meet the Nicktoons in Celebration Plaza


Schedule subject to change without notice.

*Paul Nussbaum was diagnosed with autism when in his forties, and is currently in his fifties. Despite having autism, he has had a full life including earning a college degree, honorable service in the military and has started his own handy man service to make ends meet. Additionally, he has organized a winter expedition across Yosemite to raise awareness for autism, and is co-founder of an autism social support group. Current projects include writing a manuscript for a book and planning an expedition across Greenland to raise international awareness for autism. He has been a key note speaker on a number of autism related occasions and consults with organizations to help develop effective programs.

PARTICIPATING SPONSORS

Autism Speaks

Autism Services Foundation

Pacific Autism

     

Autism Tree Project Foundation

Pacific Child and Family Associates

Sensation Nation

     

Tucci

C .A . R . D .  


Development Spectrums

     

The TreeHouse 

I Can Too Learning Center

 

SVILC

     

 

Enriching the Lives of Children with Autism, Inc.

 

Center for Learning and Autism Support Services, Inc. 


How To Learn

     

 

Associated Learning & Language Specialists, Inc.

 

Autism Today 

 

UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute 

     

 

Kaurna


Center for Speech Language & Occupational Therapy


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