Autism and special needs: Early intervention therapy model

Description

Have you come across any children with developmental disorders? Do you know how it affects their lives and the lives of the people around them? What can you do to help? 

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Autism, affects the individual’s learning and thinking patterns. This in turn affects their behavior and how they interact with other people. A good understanding of Autism is critical to customizing effective intervention strategies for individuals with special needs. 

After attending this course, you will be able to 

- Identify characteristics of children with autism, ADHD and other developmental issues.

- Step by step guide on how to help them improve from their current conditions.

- Learn and create visual aids to help them navigate transitions, build routines and improve their wellbeing in home and school settings.

- Find out the most current techniques of helping children with autism/special needs to communicate via words or picture exchange communication system (PECS)

- Create a basic curriculum so they can learn alphabets, numbers and cognitive skills more easily

- Teach them super important life skills such as toileting, self-feeding, putting on shoes and much more!

- Learn ways on how to handle meltdowns at home and public places.

- Learn the basics of how to generalize what is learnt in this course into the real world setting!

What You Will Learn!

• Understand the theory and importance importance of visual aids that helps in children with autism and related special needs issues.
• Step by step system to create visual aids to help the child with autism/special needs build routines. This will aid them in transition between activities.
• Develop visual aids to help children with special needs cope better in terms of managing their behaviours and helping them in their academic development.
• Real life videos and examples on teaching children with autism/special needs basic life skills such toilet training and eating independently.
• Examine the difference between autism, Asperger , ADHD and related developmental disorders
• Step by step guide on how to manage meltdowns and tantrums for children with autism and related special needs issues
• Achieve better relationship with your child with autism/special needs with communication techniques taught in this course
• Learn to be highly efficient in developing rapport and closer relationship with children with autism with our customized therapy techniques and video examples
• Create confidence and ability in doing up materials and see real life examples of how visual aids and knowledge can help improve well bring of child with autism

Who Should Attend!

• Family members of persons with developmental disorders such as ASD, ADHD or global developmental delay (GDD)
• Parents, caregivers and school teacchers who wants to help their child or loved ones with special needs
• Educational or early intervention therapists who wish to learn more to improve their clinical skills
• Anyone who is keen to work with children with special needs and wants to know more to help them.

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