Tourette Connection is a meet-up group for anyone whose life is affected by Tourette Syndrome: self, spouse, partner, child, sibling, teacher, health professional, etc. Children are welcome to attend-supervision, snacks, crafts, and games are provided. Our next meeting is March 14th.  There is no charge to attend our monthly meetings. 

… You will have access to me, a Child and Family Psychologist with 25 years of experience and success helping many kids and families. No question is off limits and I will do my best to answer it for you. 5)Eat! We will have some sort of yummy dessert type food to eat while we meet. One caveat: I would like these meetups to not be marketing meetings where people without kids come to hand out cards to people. Aside from people getting to know my topics and learn from them & the professionals I bring …

This group is for fathers of children with Aspergers Syndrome (and PDD-NOS) to get together and share the unique experience of being a father of a child with AS, and to arrange recreational activities for the kids too. The reason this is designed for fathers specifically is that almost all of the support groups I have seen on this topic are for mothers, or are dominated by mothers. Parenting AS affects men in a unique way, and Aspie kids need male presence that meets their needs too.

The Northern Illinois center for Autism (NICA) is a 501c3 non profit organization that was developed by parents, guided by professionals and has grown over these past 5 years into an organization that has a networking membership of over 575 contacts. Serving well over 1,250 people annually, NICA continues to grow and assist people with autism, their family members and those in the community who support them.

Mom's & Tot's Who Rock Dundee and surrounding areas is a play group where Mothers can hang out while their kids are having fun! Whether it be through special weekly play dates, out and about adventures, Birthdays, theme days, movie days, holidays, Mom's night out, music days, arts and crafts days & cupcake days...etc.  We have a variety of different age kids, although it seems like the toddler (3-5) range is dominant.  We try to schedule 2 meet ups a week.  One meetup is typically a play date at …

… Please no outside food allowed, except for infants and children with special dietary needs. We encourage members to plan their own meetups at Nibbles or other locations and to use this site to communicate with other members and share experiences, resources, difficulty and support. This meetup is organized by Nibbles' owner. One of our goals when opening Nibbles was to become a place where parents could meet other parents. By using meetup.com we are able to invite parents with similar interests …