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Training Course

Title: Autism Awareness for Health Professionals
Venue: Room 211, Touchbase, Sense Scotland, 43 Middlesex Street, Glasgow G41 1EE
Date: Friday 14 October, 2011

Participants at this course gave an unanimous rating of 5 (Excellent) for all sessions.
"Overall course was very interesting, giving much more understanding of ASD"
"Other members of the Play Service would have benefited from this course"
"Thoroughly enjoyed the day - needs to be longer"

This half-day course is for health professionals who have frontline contact with patients in hospitals, clinics, GP surgeries and after-care support settings. It will help them understand the nature of autism and some of the issues that can arise for people with autism using health services.
It is currently being offered as an in-house course for up to 15 participants. Please contact Jean Alcock for further information

Course Information in Word
Course Information as PDF

Training Brokerage

Working with top class specialist trainers, I offer training courses on a variety of topics relevant to practitioners supporting people who face barriers to learning, employment and leisure because of disability or other social disadvantage.
I can organise every aspect of a training course from hiring a venue, publicity and registering trainees to producing the course report and evaluation.
Alternatively, I can work with an organisation's training officer to bring in specialist expertise.

Broad Topics


Accessible Information:

  • awareness;
  • printed documents;
  • electronic communication including PDFs, PowerPoint,emails and websites;
  • "easy-read" documents;and
  • non-verbal communication

Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD):

  • awareness;
  • in learning settings;and
  • in health settings

Disability:

  • awareness;
  • breaking down barriers; and
  • disability discrimination legislation

Dyslexia:

  • awareness;
  • in the workplace;and
  • Professional Development Award in Supporting Individuals in Learning and Workplace Settings (SQA PDA G8LK 47).

Older People:

  • Awareness;
  • Elder Harm; and
  • Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007.

Courses can be tailored to meets the need of trainees and other topics will be considered.
Course Enquiry Form