- Summary
- Contents – Part One
- Understanding Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
- Understanding Special Educational Needs and Disabilities – Autism Focused
- What we can see vs What we can’t see
- Other common examples of special educational needs
- Theory of Mind – ToM
- Communication and Autism (ASD)
- Quiz One
- Non-Verbal Communication – Visual Support
- Why do we use visuals in SEN settings?
- PECS – Picture Exchange Communication System
- Phase 1: How to communicate
- Phase 2: Distance and Persistence
- Phase 3: Picture Discrimination
- Phase 4: Sentence Structure
- Now and next boards
- Makaton
- Communication support – Social stories
- Examples of Social Stories
- Quiz Two
- Verbal Communication
- Emotional Regulation and Autism
- Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
- Positive Behaviour Support plan (PBS)
- EHCP – Education, Health and Care plan
- Why do SEN Children have an EHCP?
- Quiz Three
- First Day in an SEN Environment
- Contents – Part 2
- Key things to help prepare for your first day
- Soft Play benefits for SEN
- OT (Occupational Therapy) for SEN
- Benefits of OT
- Sensory Room Benefits for SEN
- Quiz Four
- Fine Motor skills
- Crisis – what it looks like and what to do
- Your role in a crisis
- Stage 3 – Crisis
- Safe Space/De-escalation space
- Safe space log
- Quiz Five
- Behaviour Iceberg
- Transitions and Autism
- Sensory Overload and Autism
- Key points about sensory overload in Autism
- Ear Defenders
- Always remember…..
- Quiz Six
- End of Course
- End of Course Assessment (SEN)
- End of training course