Inclusive education for children with autism & special needs
What you'll learn
- Step by step hands on approach on how to incorporate inclusive education education within a mainstream school
- Create customized visual aids to help child with autism/special needs assimilate into mainstream school setting
- Learn how to manage meltdowns and tantrums when children with autism and related developmental issues faced challenges in mainstream schools
- Learn the importance of social stories and how it can be used to prime the child with autism/special needs cope better in regular schools
- Learn how to use "stop-think-do" approach to help child self regulate and make appropriate decisions in dealing with stress and conflicts.
- Learn the various theories of autism, ADHD, Asperger etc to have a better understanding on how to help them better in regular school.
- Increase your knowledge and confidence in working with children with autism/special needs with hands on experience via videos and layman language from lectures
- Gain the knowledge on how to collaborate teachers, allied educators and parents to help the better blend in seamlessly into mainstream school setting.
Requirements
- A computer or mobile device with internet connection is all you need
- You must be willing to invest USD$35 to learn quality theories and practical videos on how inclusive education can be implemented in mainstream schools for children with autism and related special needs
- You do NOT need any experience in special needs therapy or intervention to attend this course. This course use layman terms with clear audio and videos to teach you how to implemented strategies such as visual aids in regular schools for them.
- Ask me ANY questions via chat or email. I am always available to help your settle all your queries.
Description
Feeling stress and losing sleep of transiting your child with autism, special needs or challenging behaviors into mainstream schools? Fear and stress no more on this!
Be the first to learn from the author of "School shadow guidelines", world's 1st book how explaining in details on how to integrate children with special needs into mainstream schools.
I will show you step by step on how to use various strategies to help your child assimilate into mainstream school setting as soon as possible. All these are done with real life visual aids, real life examples, social stories and much more materials to aid your child for an inspiring inclusion education journey.
For a child with special needs to succeed, the collaboration between therapy, family and school is very important. Goals must be aligned and be consistent across these 3 components for the child to achieve his or her fullest potential. That is also why your role will play an indispensable part in helping the child bloom!
What exactly you will learn in this course?
Learn how to instill positive behavior support for children with special needs to integrate into mainstream schools.
Learn to develop visual aids to ease child into various transitions in mainstream school and build up healthy and good routines.
Develop skills to work with teachers and allied educators within school environment to achieve best possible outcome for the child in need ( child with autism and related issues)
Understand theories of various special needs issues which will aid your understanding of inclusion education for them.
Learn step by step on how to develop social stories which is essential to prime child for the complexities and rigors of mainstream school environment.
Learn and developed customize strategies such as anger thermometer, "stop-think-do" concept, "check in check out" system, behavioral contracts and much more for the child in need.
Use my strategies to handle meltdowns and severe tantrums in school successfully.
Scale up your arsenal of knowledge and strategies to handle all forms of issues that will occur when integrating children with special needs into regular schools.
Understand the various difficulties children with special needs might face in mainstream school and how to overcome them successfully.
Train regular teachers and teacher aids on how to help children with autism/special needs cope and learn better in mainstream schools.
What are you waiting for? Join us in our mission to help unlock each children's potential!
Who this course is for:
- Parents, teachers and para-professional who works with children in special school setting.
- School teachers, school allied educators and school leaders who wish to implement a positive inclusive school environment
- Anyone who wants to know more about children with autism, ADHD etc and help them assimilate into mainstream school setting.
- Educational or early intervention therapists who wish to learn more to improve their clinical skills
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 448 Reviews
- 10,732 Students
- 3 Courses
International Author who has published 2 books by Future Horizons Inc (USA) which is world leader in autism and sensory resources.
His books have been used by schools worldwide on inclusive education and parent training for children with special needs.
· School Shadow Guidelines (2015)
“Your child may find it difficult to adapt to new surroundings and learning environments from time to time. School Shadow Guidelines helps guide your child to develop appropriate behaviors in school, establish an environment that helps to strengthen academic ability, and also build up on his/her social interaction skills with the goal of independence. Special needs children can benefit from having inclusive education to aid in their development and growth; this is where school shadowing serves vital roles.”
· Parents’ Guide to Early Intervention (2021)
“Parents Guide to Early Intervention provides parents with a simple step-by-step model to help their children with special needs navigate the above issues. It is based on the Comprehensive Model for Early Intervention (CMEI) developed by Alex Liau, who has worked with children with special needs for the past 15 years. Alex has combined his experiences in working with parents in Asia, United States, Australia, and Europe in crafting early intervention plans for children with special needs.”
– Certified EIBI/ABA Consultant (Training Institute of Geneva Autism Center, Toronto, Canada)
– Guest Lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic for Diploma in Child Psychology & Early Education and Bachelors of Science (Early Childhood Education and Leadership)
– Graduate from the world renowned training institute, Geneva Autism Center.(Certification in the Principles of ABA for Teaching and Intervention)
– Trained and endorsed by world renowned Psychologist, Dr Jeb Baker who is an international expert in managing challenging behaviors and social skills training.
– Trained and certified in the introduction and advanced course of the SCERTS program.
– Personally trained by Carol Gray, who is the founder and president of Social Stories which is ranked one of the most effective tools to help children with autism. He is the only person in the region to be trained in the latest Social Stories 10.1.
- Completed the Professional Development course under Autism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT). Alex is trained in:
• ASPECT Comprehensive Approach for Education
• ASPECT Educational Outreach
The above certifications equip Alex with the expertise and best practices in supporting children with special needs in mainstream schools worldwide.
Alex obtained his degree in Psychology in the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has many years of experience working with children exhibiting a wide array of learning and behavior difficulties, with many diagnosed as having autism spectral disorder (ASD).
He received training on Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) in Australia and subsequently went to Houston, Texas to receive Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) training under Dr. Steven Gutstein and Dr. Rachel Sheely. He has presented in Australia, Houston and Singapore and has been invited to participate in interviews by the press in Singapore. Additionally, he has worked with clients from various countries like China, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Australia. He has also mentored and trained many therapists throughout his career.
His interest in children with special needs started while he was concentrating on Childhood Psychology and pursued a research project on autism and related disorders. The many successful cases he achieve while working intensively with children with ASD made him a firm believer of early intervention and other comprehensive, experimentally proven therapies. Alex has the ability to harness the confidence and self esteem of these children which in turn enable them to be more receptive to compliance training and regain the ability to learn and progress.
While utilizing the skills he acquired during training, he realized that the two therapies work well in tandem and children were receptive to different aspects of each therapy depending on the clinical presentation of the symptoms and impairments. He is the only therapist in Singapore that provides these two methods that synergise and facilitate the learning of a child. Since the RDI approach involves in building of rapport between the child and family, which works well in bringing about remediation of the child’s difficulties and reaps substantive benefits in the child’s development and progress when parents play an active roles in their child’s life, the focus then, is not only on the child, but also on his parents. Alex has generously provided the necessary emotional support and advice to the parents of children under his care.
As each child is unique, he develops individualized in-home behavioural intervention plans for children and teaching programmes for parents, tailored to the specifications and needs of each child, to effectively bring out the best potential of the child.
Alex also volunteers at Pathlight School under the Gound-Up Initiative (GUI). Alex sees the benefits of having the children with difficulties interact and grow together with other children and has extensive experience in providing mainstream school integration support through the various school collaborations. Embarking a step beyond, Alex has provided extracurricular activities to invoke the curiosity of these children by organising various group outings for all the children to participate in.