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This course will provide you and/or your team with an advanced understanding of autism, spectrum of autism including abilities, disabilities, and spiky skills profile, the legislation relevant to autism in the UK along with quality care, person-centred support and strategies to support autistic individuals in dealing with change, how behaviour may indicate stress and how to interpret a change in an autistic individual’s presentation or behaviour, the common issues, communication needs and health inequalities faced by autistic individuals.

The health action plans, autism health passports and reasonable adjustments which are required to ensure people with autism have an equal access of health services, stimming and other self-soothing techniques employed by autistic individuals to calm themselves, the abuse and safeguarding concerns including where and who to raise them with, the role family members and carers in supporting an autistic individual has also been informed via this course. Finally, the course will explain how employers can play their part in providing a safe and supportive employment for people with autism.

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To provide people with responsibility for providing care and support for an autistic person or people, but who could seek support from others for complex management or complex decision-making, with the knowledge and understanding required to support autistic children, young people, and adults.

By successfully completing this course you will be able to:

- Understand the spectrum of autism including abilities, disabilities, and spiky skills profiles
- Understand the importance of equal, timely access to autism assessment and diagnosis and some of the barriers to diagnosis
- Describe the legislations relevant to autism in the UK
- Describe quality care, person-centred support, and strategies to support autistic individuals
- Understand how to support autistic people to deal with change
- Understand how the behaviour of an autistic individual may indicate stress
- Understand how to interpret a change in an autistic individual’s presentation or behaviour
- List common issues faced by autistic people and describe how to support them
- Understand stimming
- Understand the activities that people with autism adopt to ‘self soothe’ or ‘self-regulate’ or just ‘calm down’
- Understand the common communication needs of autistic people
- Understand how health inequality affects autistic people and what are the main causes of it
- List the reasonable adjustments to be put in place to access health care and other services
- Understand the role of health action plans/health passports in signposting important adjustments
- Understand about the types of abuse which may be especially relevant for autistic people
- Understand that people with autism have the right to make decisions and know how to support them in this process
- Describe how to raise a safeguarding concern and where to get information and advice on Mental Capacity Act or Equality issues
- List your responsibilities as a care provider for an autistic person
- Understand the importance of working with others, including what role do family members, carers and supporters play in the lives of autistic people
including what role family carers and supporters may play in the lives of autistic people
- Understand how to meet the needs autistic people in the workplace

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£799 - Cost of this course is for all 16 attendees

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