Aim: 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.
Objectives:
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 behaviour 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.
- Understand how to meet the needs autistic people in the workplace
Introduction
Welcome to the Halo Staffing Tier 2 Autism.
We begin this course with an explanation of the spectrum of autism including abilities, disabilities, and spiky skills profiles.
This will be followed by the importance of equal, timely access to autism assessment and diagnosis including some of the barriers to diagnosis.
The next topic will be about the legislations relevant to autism in the UK.
We will then describe quality care, person-centred support, and strategies to support autistic individuals.
The following topic will be about supporting autistic people in dealing with change.
The next topic will inform you how the behaviour of an autistic individual may indicate stress.
We will then explain you how to interpret a change in an autistic individual’s presentation or behaviour.
This will be promptly followed by a description of common issues faced by autistic people and how you can support them.
The next two topics will be about stimming, activities that people with autism adopt to ‘self soothe’ or ‘self-regulate’ or just ‘calm down’.
We will then inform you about the common communication needs of autistic people.
This will be followed by a description about how health inequality affects autistic people and what are the main causes of it.
List of reasonable adjustments to be put in place so that people with autism can access health care and other services will be the next topic.
The role of health action plans and health passports in signposting important adjustments will be informed next.
We will then inform you about the types of abuse which may be especially relevant for people with autism.
This will be followed by an explanation of how people with autism do have the right to make decisions and what should be your role in supporting them in this process.
The next topic will be about raising a safeguarding concern and where to get information and advice on Mental Capacity Act or Equality issues.
We will then list your responsibilities as a care provider for an autistic person.
The importance of working with others, including role of family members, carers and supporters in the lives of autistic people will be informed next.
Finally, we will explain how employers can meet the needs of autistic people in their workplace.
