
Explore developmental disorders with a focus on autism and ADHD, learn early intervention strategies, behavioral and therapeutic approaches, and key autism traits like joint attention, repetitive behaviors, and social cognition.
Explore how Asperger's differs from severe autism, with social communication challenges and routine-driven behavior. Learn ADHD features and classroom strategies, including structured teaching, ABA, and social stories.
Explore how visual aids reduce anxiety and support learning for children with developmental and mental disorders by leveraging visual strengths, processing, and structured routines such as visual schedules.
Learn to use social stories as visual aids to teach autistic children appropriate behavior and social skills. Follow guidelines for descriptive, perspective, and directive sentences and a three-step writing process.
Identify and manage meltdowns in children with autism, noting triggers and escalation signs, then apply redirection, social stories, containment, schedule stabilization, and gradual task adjustment to support calm, safe transitions.
Think of a meltdown situation for a child in need. Use what you learn in the lecture and attached resource, device a customized strategy to deal with the meltdown.
Learn to coach children with autism in toilet training through readiness assessment, preparation, and structured teaching using scheduled sittings, visual schedules, and positive reinforcement to support independent toileting.
Have you come across any children with developmental disorders? Do you know how it affects their lives and the lives of the people around them? What can you do to help?
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Autism, affects the individual’s learning and thinking patterns. This in turn affects their behavior and how they interact with other people. A good understanding of Autism is critical to customizing effective intervention strategies for individuals with special needs.
After attending this course, you will be able to
- Identify characteristics of children with autism, ADHD and other developmental issues.
- Step by step guide on how to help them improve from their current conditions.
- Learn and create visual aids to help them navigate transitions, build routines and improve their wellbeing in home and school settings.
- Find out the most current techniques of helping children with autism/special needs to communicate via words or picture exchange communication system (PECS)
- Create a basic curriculum so they can learn alphabets, numbers and cognitive skills more easily
- Teach them super important life skills such as toileting, self-feeding, putting on shoes and much more!
- Learn ways on how to handle meltdowns at home and public places.
- Learn the basics of how to generalize what is learnt in this course into the real world setting!