Course Overview
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who present with verbal and language difficulties may consistently face challenges in understanding the environment around them and regulating their emotions. These challenges may be stressful for caregivers and families to deal with.
In this workshop, we will be sharing strategies that will be helpful for individuals with ASD to build understanding of their environment and coping skills to regulate their emotions. The participants will be given practice to plan schedules and routines that will promote the overall well-being of individuals with ASD.
This workshop is designed especially for parents and professionals working with individuals with ASD who are in Special Schools or the Day Activity Centers (DAC) for the adults. The practices taught are relevant for individuals with ASD of all age levels.
This skills training has 4 major components.
1) Part A provides an overview of the difficulties and needs of individuals with ASD
2) In Part B, participants will be taught strategies on how to help an individual with ASD to have better understanding of their environment, eg. What to expect in the environment.
Participants will get to practice on these strategies.
3) In Part C, participants get to learn ways to identify and prevent lash out as well as strategies to manage a lash out.
4) Part D covers information and strategies to help such individuals to build emotional understanding and awareness
Target Audience
This workshop is designed especially for parents and professionals who would like to learn strategies to help individuals with ASD to have better understanding of their environment and to build skills to cope with their emotions. The strategies taught in this workshop are targeted for individuals with ASD who are in specials schools and DAC, for all ages.
It is suitable for:
1. Professionals working with individuals with ASD eg, Special School Teachers, Therapist, Psychologist
2. Parents of children or adolescents with ASD of all ages
Educational Institutions and Schools will especially benefit from this course.
Duration: 8 hours
Topics
Part A: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
o Core difficulties in individuals with ASD
o Tapping on the strengths of individuals with ASD in supporting their growth
Part B: Understanding the social world
o How to teach and manage expectations of their environment
o Build understanding and awareness of their environment
Part C: Managing and preventing lash out
o Using ABC behaviour model to identify and manage trigger to prevent lash out
o How to manage lash out
Part D: Building emotional awareness and coping
o Building different levels of emotional understanding
o Building different levels of emotional awareness
o Managing anxiety
Part E: Building routines that support overall well-being using Case Study
o Practise and discuss