Why you should do this course:

  • You have patients who are on the autism spectrum
  • You have patients who could be on the autism spectrum
  • You want to learn more about autism
  • You want to be able to better relate to and communicate with autistic people

Course Description:

This purchase will be for Module 5 (5.1, 5.2, 5.3 & 5.4) only of the complete course ‘Understanding Autism for Healthcare Professionals‘.

  • Narrated presentation: You watch, read and listen to the learning materials.
  • Animations: Unique, charming, sweet animations based around the central character, The Girl With The Curly Hair, and her experiences in different situations.
  • Visuals and infographics: Colourful diagrams to help you understand.
  • Reflective questions: Consider what you have learned and apply it to your own situation.
  • Quizzes: Answer questions to check your understanding along the way.
  • Notes: Download a copy of the slides and transcripts.
  • Certificate of completion: Download and print a certificate for your CV or learning development.

Modules:

Learn why an autistic patient may have difficulty communicating and understand ways to improve your conversations with them.

Covers:

  • How an autistic person may misunderstand body language, facial expressions and tone of voice
  • How an autistic person may use their own body language, facial expressions and tone of voice differently
  • Understand how an autistic person might focus on literal words
  • The importance of ‘making sense’

Social imagination helps people to think flexibly. Autistic people may have weak social imagination. Learn how weak social imagination might affect an autistic patient’s understanding of a medical situation.

Covers:

  • Struggling to predict the outcome of a situation
  • Struggling to be able to see the bigger picture
  • Having trouble thinking flexibly
  • Misunderstanding what other people mean

Autistic people can have unusually intense interests. It’s important to understand that they may have found it upsetting to have altered their daily routine to attend an appointment.

Covers:

  • The impact of unusually intense interests on an autistic person’s lifestyle and relationships
  • Suggestions on how to use an autistic person’s interests to be able to engage with them

Learn why social interaction can be exhausting for an autistic patient and their need for time alone in order to recover.

Covers:

  • Why social interaction is difficult for autistic people
  • The importance of time alone
  • How autism might affect introverted and extroverted personality types

£25.00

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This Course Includes:

  • 1.25 hours of course material
  • Narrated presentations
  • Animations
  • Visuals & infographics
  • Sections for self-reflection
  • Quizzes
  • Copy of slides and transcripts 
  • 1 year access
  • Certificate of completion

Requirements:

You do not need to have any experience or understanding of autism.

Audience:

You should be working in the healthcare sector, although you do not necessarily need to be a clinical practitioner.

Purchase all of the modules together

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