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Autism
Understanding Autism, see more detail below

All Care workers

Full day

• What is Autism? – The history of Autism and an overview of Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
The triad of impairment
• Social Communication - Looks at how we communicate and what function it serves, concentrating on verbal and non verbal cues and visually supported techniques used to support client’s with Autism.
• Sensory Issues – How senses such as sight, smell, hearing and touch can be hypersensitive in Autistic service users and how to manage the environment to minimise potential distress
• Social interaction – Lack of understanding and difficulties in making friendships, inappropriate social behaviours and lack of social skills
• Social Imagination – We look at difficulties experienced in understanding how others think, feel and react and problems with imagination
• Behaviour –Obsessions, rituals and routines and their importance, what purpose they serve.

Discussion and Question and Answers

On the successful completion of the course all students will be issued with a course certificate.

£395 + vat

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Northern Training Limited
Tel: 0845 344 0138
Fax: 0845 344 0138
Email: info@northerntraining.co.uk

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