Autism and behaviour: analysing and managing
This course will provide staff with ways to analyse behaviour in autistic children, taking into account their specific learning and processing styles. This will lead to discussing practical strategies to manage behaviour in school, including designing behaviour plans and links to school behaviour policies.
It is recommended that LSAs attend together with the school SENCO, so that strategies can be integrated within school-based behaviour policies and plans.
The course will NOT cover positive handling and restraint management techniques.
Pupils will:
- have effective behaviour plans in place to support their learning in school
Staff will:
- be equipped to understand and manage behaviour for autistic children.
Settings will:
- have a consistent evidence-based approach to analysing and managing behaviour for autistic children in their school
Staff supporting autistic children in school settings, to include LSAs, SENCOs, and Teachers
Evidence based literacy/dyslexia interventions (Primary & Secondary)
A practical/hands-on workshop to explore a range of evidence-based interventions. SENCOs will develop confidence in selecting appropriate literacy interventions to address specific areas of need to help students make progress in reading, writing, spelling, reading comprehension, and handwriting.
These will include computer-based and non-computer based interventions.
Practitioners will:
- have increased awareness and confidence in selecting appropriate technologies to reduce barriers to learning, promote inclusion and independent learning to meet the needs of individual learners
SENCOs
Supporting Autistic Children in Primary (x5 weeks)
This 5-day course includes the following:
Week 1
- What is Autism? The diagnosis and our experiences.
Week 2
- Sensory processing and strategies to support.
Week 3
- Communication and strategies to support.
Week 4
- Accessing the curriculum - strategies
Week 5
- Managing behaviour, emotion and anxiety difficulties
Pupils will:
- be provided with appropriate strategies and support to assist their inclusion, interaction, and access to all areas of the curriculum
Practitioners will:
- have a deeper understanding of autism, and how it affects children and their families
- be equipped with a range of strategies to support children with autism in mainstream primary school
Settings will:
- have staff who have a greater understanding of best practice in relation to autistic children, as well as the sensory difficulties they experience which can affect their ability to be included
Staff supporting autistic pupils in primary schools, SENCOs, Teachers, and Teaching Assistants
Date
17th April 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
24th April 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
1st May 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
8th May 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
15th May 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
24th April 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
1st May 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
8th May 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
15th May 2026 (9:30am - 12:30pm)
Venue
SEND Outreach Service, Discovery School, Battery Road, SE28 0JN
Tutors
SEND Outreach Support Service
Down Syndrome Support Group: Behaviour and SALT
Training will include:
- Looking at expectations of appropriate behaviour
- Self-help skills
- Strategies to support appropriate behaviour
- Speech and language difficulties that children with DS may have
- How to support and develop functional communication skills and strategies to support speech and language development
Pupils will:
- benefit from carefully planned support tailored to meet individual needs
Staff will:
- have increased confidence to effectively implement reactive strategies to develop and support appropriate behaviour
- have increased confidence in supporting speech and language development when supporting children with Down Syndrome
SENCOs, Teachers, and Support Staff supporting children with Down Syndrome