SUPPORTING STUDENTS WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME
This course will be particularly helpful to teachers and learning support staff in mainstream education, SENCos, education managers and parents. Students with Asperger syndrome often underachieve throughout their educational careers. The course aims to outline the issues involved in the identification of students with Asperger syndrome and in meeting their educational needs.
The course will cover:
* Identification* Strengths and needs profiles for appropriate support
* What challenges do students face?
* The overlap with other autistic spectrum conditions
* Overlap with other SpLDs
* Management, support and intervention in schools/colleges
* Transition between stages of education
The course tutor
is Maggie
Anderson
Maggie has over
thirty years’ experience of working with children and adults with
cognitive differences in a variety of educational and social settings.
Currently, she works as a provider of specialist support to schools,
education authorities and families in the education of children and
young people with autistic spectrum conditions. She has published in the
field of early education and taught in Higher Education.
COURSES
Please click on the date of the course to download full course information and application form (PDF format: to be printed and posted to the mailing address shown with payment).
CENTRAL LONDON Thursday November 11th 10.00am-4.00pm (Click on date for form) ‘Early
Bird’ Rate for bookings received 4 weeks before course date £135 Contact: Debbie Pollard (As all of our administrators work part
time
you are likely to get a quicker response if you can email them - thank
you) |