Course Details
Course Overview:
Course Format: Two day, in-person training.
Cost:
- £249 per delegate (course only)
- £449 per delegate (course plus 5 x AQA Unit Award Accreditations)
Cost includes lunch, refreshments and a full ‘structured teaching starter kit’ backpack.
This course is certified by the CPD Certification Service and AQA Unit Award Accreditations available (see below for further details).
What you will learn:
This course aims to help professionals develop their skills and confidence in supporting young autistic children or those that may be awaiting an assessment.
Topics include play, communication, social interaction, behaviour, and the Early Years role. The aim of the course is to enable you with the skills and confidence to support the child and family in a person-centred and neuroinclusive way.
As part of this course, all delegates receive a range of comprehensive resources and a ‘Structured Teaching Starter Kit’ with a range of toys, activities, and visuals that you can implement within your setting, worth over £50.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Explore a range of differences an autistic pre-school child may have in the early year’s environment.
- Be able to implement strategies to support autistic children within a pre-school setting.
- Explore using a range of structured visual approaches to support autistic children in your environment.
- Gain knowledge of how to structure physical environments and activities for autistic children.
- Develop skills in supporting and interacting with autistic pre-school children and their parents.
- Receive guidance on how to use the Connecting with Autism ‘Structured Teaching Starter Kit’.
Who should attend:
This course is ideal for any early years practitioners including nursery staff, health visitors, Sure Start teams, and others working with young children in educational or care settings.
AQA Accreditation:
AQA Unit Award Accreditations available for delegates to demonstrate their learning and professional development.
Accreditations take the form of a short answer written assessments and usually takes approximately 30-40 minutes per unit (emailed to you to complete and return after the course is complete). There are five accreditations available at an extra cost of £40 per unit.
- Understanding autism in early years
- Using schedules and activity systems to support autistic people
- Structured teaching for autistic people
- Understanding autism and communication differences
- Supporting autistic children in the early years setting
Booking information:
To book your place online, please complete the form below and make your card payment via our online processing system.
If you would like to be invoiced for your place, please email training@autismni.org with your training request and a member of our team will book your place.
Once your place has been booked, you will receive a reminder email 48 hours before the training with final details about the course (please check your spam folder if it is not in your inbox).
Training Cancellation Policy:
A booking cancellation can be made at any time up to 5 working days before the workshop at a cost of 50% of the booking. For notice of less than 5 working days, you will be invoiced for the full cost of the booking.