Autism & Anxiety: Understanding and Supporting your Child
- 8 Sections
- 37 Lessons
- 5 Quizzes
- 3h Duration
Course Overview
Module 1: What is Anxiety?
Module 2: Autism & Anxiety
Module 3: Managing Anxiety, Part 1
Module 4: Managing Anxiety, Part 2
- Reduce uncertainty about decisions
- Manage unexpected or sudden change
- Choose the best day and time for difficult tasks
- Identify which element of a situation makes your child anxious (The Volcano Concept)
- Decide whether a situation is really worth the anxiety
- When the problem is 'how,' not 'what'
- Use masking in a helpful way
- Psyche up
- End of module 4 quiz
Module 5: Managing Anxiety, Part 3
Module 6: Apply your Learning
Summary & Certificate
Autism & Anxiety is for parents and carers of autistic children and teenagers who wish to better understand their child's experiences of anxiety and explore practical strategies to help make everyday life more manageable.
What you'll learn
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Understand what anxiety is and why autistic children and teenagers may experience it differently or more intensely
- Recognise signs of anxiety in your child and identify situations, environments or expectations that may contribute to it
- Understand how your child might experience and communicate anxiety, and how to acknowledge and respond to their feelings and needs
- Develop a toolkit of practical strategies to help prevent, reduce or manage your child's anxiety
- Support your child in understanding their own needs, making informed choices and building a life that works with their autism rather than against it
Estimated duration
3 hours
Course access
365 days
Single-user license & account restrictions
Enrollment in this course grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license for one (1) individual person only to access and view the course materials for personal, non-commercial educational purposes.
Your login credentials are strictly personal. You may not share your username, password or course access with any other person, nor may you host group viewings, stream the content to multiple viewers or distribute any materials (including lessons, videos and images) to third parties.
We reserve the right to monitor account activity and immediately suspend or terminate access without a refund if unauthorised account sharing or distribution is detected.
Copyright
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Course materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of The Curly Hair Project Ltd.
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