
AET Schools Making Sense of Autism
Gain a better understanding and awareness of autism and the way it affects children in schools
Who is this training for?
This is a raising awareness module for anyone working in schools. This includes teaching and support staff, office and ancillary staff, caterers, caretakers, transport staff and governors.
What will you learn?
- Enhance your understanding and awareness of autism and how autism can affect children in schools
- Know the importance of understanding the individual child and their profile of strengths and needs
- Identify potential barriers to learning for autistic children
- Begin to make reasonable adjustments in the way you support autistic children
- Reflect on the information you need to collect for creating a one-page profile

AET Post 16 Making Sense of Autism
Who is this training for?
For everyone involved in the Post-16 sector who would benefit from having an understanding of autism. This includes teaching and support staff, office staff, caterers, transport staff, governors, employers and careers advisers.
What will you learn?
- Enhance your understanding and awareness of autism and how autism can affect learners in Post-16 settings
- Know the importance of understanding the learner and their profile of strengths and needs
- Identify potential barriers to learning for autistic learners
- Begin to make reasonable adjustments in the way you support autistic learners
- Reflect on the information you need to collect for creating a one-page profile

Use of positive language to address SEMH needs
A free online session - The course will look at the types of difficulties children may experience in the setting and the behaviours that may be observed as a consequence. We will explore a range of strategies to help support children with SEMH in the classroom with a consideration of those with learning needs.

Managing your SEN Register
Please watch the video from the Autumn'21 SENCo Cluster meeting re 'Managing your SEN Register'

AET Early Years Making Sense of Autism
Who is this course for? All early years staff, including support staff, admin staff, caretakers and lunchtime supervisors.
What does this course cover?
• What is autism?
• How does it impact on CYP?
• Some basic strategies will be covered.
Course Aims
A 2 hour whistle stop tour of autism, as a starting point for settings to be able to consider whole school approaches to supporting CYP. Participants will gain basic understanding of autism, and some strategies to help CYP.

AET - Schools Good Autism Practice
Gain practical knowledge and discover hands-on tools and techniques to support pupils with autism in your setting.
Who is this training for?
The session is suitable for practitioners working with school-age pupils on the autism spectrum in both mainstream and specialist services. This includes:
- teachers
- senior management
- teaching assistants
- any other practitioner
What will you learn?
- To develop your knowledge and understanding of good autism practice.
- To reflect on and improve your practice through guidelines and activities.
- How to use the schools autism competency framework to evaluate and develop how you work.

CLOSED COURSE SMSA
Who is this course for? All school staff, including support staff, admin staff, caretakers and lunchtime supervisors.
What does this course cover?
• What is autism?
• How does it impact on CYP?
• Some basic strategies will be covered.
Course Aims
A 2 hour whistle stop tour of autism, as a starting point for settings to be able to consider whole school approaches to supporting CYP. Participants will gain basic understanding of autism, and some strategies to help CYP.

AET Schools Making Sense of Autism - Dunalley Primary
(Partial accreditation towards school’s GAIQM)
A 1 hour free session for your school. Please arrange directly with your Advisory Teacher.
Who is this course for? All school staff, including support staff, admin staff, caretakers and lunchtime supervisors, particularly in schools working towards the GAIQM quality mark.
What does this course cover?
• What is autism?
• How does it impact on CYP?
• Some basic strategies will be covered.
Course Aims
A 1 hour whistle stop tour of autism, as a starting point for settings to be able to consider whole school approaches to supporting CYP. Participants will gain basic understanding of autism, and some strategies to help CYP.

An Introduction to Precision Teaching
This is a 90 minute session which is designed to be delivered on school INSET days or as a twilight session.
• The rationale for using precision teaching
• The ‘six step’ process and how each stage works in practice
• Essential principles and common problems when using this approach
Course aims – to develop an understanding of using precision teaching methods as a way of planning and monitoring the effectiveness of targeted reading, spelling and numeracy interventions.

Assessing and improving memory skills for pupils with Special Educational Needs
- For participants to gain knowledge and understanding of how poor memory skills can impact on learning.
- For participants to be able to implement strategies and advice from the course to more effectively support the children with poor memory skills that they work with.

Bespoke - Understanding an avoidant profile
Bespoke training for class staff.
This course aims to
- develop understanding of autism with an avoidant profile
- explore strategies to support a child with this profile