Understanding and Supporting Autistic People

This course will explore the key characteristics of autism that may impact on a person’s anxiety and stress levels. Delegates will explore a range of strategies to help increase emotional understanding, emotional regulation and coping strategies to help an autistic individual reduce the impact of anxiety. The course will also explore how you can minimise anxiety triggers or autistic people within your professional role or service.

Autism NI’s Impact Award is a training and support programme that provides schools, organisations and businesses with a framework to build autism accessibility across their setting.

The KEYHOLE Early Intervention Programme is holistic approach for young children to enhance their development from a young age. Topics covered, Play, Communication, Social Interaction, behaviour and the Early Years role.

This course will explore the key characteristics of autism and how they result in different experiences for an autistic person within work.

This course will explore the key characteristics of autism and how they result in different experiences for an autistic person, it will consider why females may be underrepresented or missed in diagnosis of autism and explore the main differences between male and female presentations of autism. This course will provide practical ideas that can be used to support autistic females particularly in the areas of routines and organisation, sensory, communication, emotions, self-esteem and relationships.

Understand what is meant by the ‘PDA Profile’ within autism, and how this may present.

This course will explore the key characteristics of autism and how they result in different experiences for an autistic person. This course will explore elements of structured teaching and will provide a range of practical ideas exploring the uses of structure to support autistic individuals.

Understand the purpose of social stories and comic strips, and how to create these for an autistic individual. This course will explore a range of practical examples of how to use these in a range of settings.