You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s June Meeting
Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer
“Jane Austen and Autistic Spectrum Disorders:
Re-examining some of her characters’ challenges with conversation,
empathy and social interaction from a 21st century perspective”
Sunday, 9 June 2019, 2-4 pm
Fletcher Free Library, Community Room*
235 College St, Burlington VT
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With a degree in speech language pathology from McGill University, Phyllis Fergusson Bottomer has had a long career working with children and adults with communication challenges. A longtime reader of Jane Austen, she has used her professional knowledge to view some of Austen’s most puzzling characters through this lens of social and communication impairment. Her book So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (2007) brought this topic to the fore, and she has travelled the world over to give talks at various Austen society groups and conferences. Active in JASNA as a Board member, Chair of the JASNA Grants Committee, and many years as Regional Coordinator for the Vancouver Region, Phyllis also (along with her husband) has become enamored of English Country Dance and they travel as “dance gypsies” to balls and week-long dance camps all over the continent (and why she is here in Vermont!)
~ Free & open to the public ~ ~ Light refreshments served ~
For more information: JASNAVTregion [at] gmail [dot] com
Please visit our blog at: http://JaneAustenInVermont.blog
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Hope you can join us!
* If there is no available parking at the Library or on surrounding streets, please note that parking is free on Sunday in the parking garage on Cherry St, a short walk to the Library.
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Upcoming 2019 meetings:
Jane Austen in Vermont 
Thanks Deb. One of these days I’ll turn up.
Aren’t we all on the autistic spectrum? Some of the most loving children I have taught have been diagnosed with autism. They are special.
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