Making your Practice Autism-Friendly
Autism is part of daily life for many families and professionals and this course is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of autism itself and of how to make your practice or workplace more autism friendly. Our two experienced authors are a family team. Debbie Waller is a respected therapist, writer, speaker and trainer. She is also Mum to Rae, who just happens to be on the Autistic spectrum. Rae works as a sensitivity reader for both fiction and non-fiction, specialising in autism and LGBTQ+ issues.
About the Free Making Your Practice Autism Friendly Course
Autism is “a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with and relates to other people, and how they experience the world around them”. Source: The National Autistic Society. Around 700,000 people in the UK are autistic, more than 1% of the population. Inevitably, some of your clients are on the autistic spectrum.
You may not necessarily be working with autistic people for issues directly connected to their autism. But the condition is inevitably part of their personality and how they respond to the world. By understanding it more fully, you can make the experience of working with you as positive and easy as possible, whatever their presenting issue.
What you’ll learn:
- What autism is and how it is experienced.
- The dyad of impairments and wider aspects of autism.
- How autism can affect daily life.
- Practical tips for making your practice autism-friendly.
The course includes: brief summary slideshows for each module, practical activities to consolidate your learning, links to wider reading, and free resources.
Summary slideshow of module one.
Support: free email support for three months after you order the course.
Suitable for: originally intended for hypnotherapists, this course has also proved popular with counsellors, psychotherapists, life coaches, and even those in non-therapy roles such as prison officers, healthcare professionals, teachers, beauticians, and hairdressers. It’s also helpful for people with autistic family members.
Commitment: time taken to complete the course varies, depending on how much of the suggested wider reading and research you choose to complete. Average is around 5-6 hours.
Level: introductory, skills and knowledge development, suitable as CPD
Feedback on YHT’s Understanding Autism Course
I have worked in this area and done full-day courses on this subject, and yet this has been the best training I have done on this subject. TW
I thoroughly enjoyed the course on ‘Understanding Autism’ which was presented in such an engaging easy format. The generous sharing of your knowledge on the subject matter and the many knowledgeable findings and links presented during the course has truly shown that Autism indeed stands for a group of people that are ‘Always Unique, Totally Intelligent and Sometimes Mysterious’. Thank you for allowing me to be part of the group to take this course. Bruni Brewin – President Emeritus, Australian Hypnotherapists Association
I loved this so much I couldn’t put it down and stop. Every therapist should read this. SW
Easy to understand and a comprehensive guide to those not aware of Autism… I would recommend that all therapists and those working in the care sector do it. Even parents of non-Autistic children. Think it should be rolled out in schools to teach all children about it so that they are not stigmatised. MS
Excellent course that condenses a wide and complex subject into an easily understood format. It forms a solid foundation that anyone can build on, and is an excellent add-on for any therapist that will undoubtedly enhance their practice. PA
How to Get This Free CPD Training
- To get instant access to the course files, use this button.
- Complete the course in your own time, score 80% or more on our online quiz to receive a free certificate*.
*Please note: CPD hours/points are not automatically shown on the certificate, as the time people spend on the course varies depending on how many of the optional resources they use. With that in mind, it seems unfair to give everyone the same credit.
If you need a certificate with hours confirmed, please keep a note of how long the course takes you to complete. Drop us an email with this information when you’ve taken the quiz, and we can issue one manually. There is a £5 admin fee for this.