Description
Course Overview
This Autism Awareness online course will heighten your awareness and increase your understanding of autism.
The course is split into three modules:
• What is autism?
• What are the main challenges?
• Characteristics and diagnosis of autism
Course Audience
The audience for this course includes:
- Carers, parents and professional organisations
- Adult and Children’s Social Care Services staff and other local authority partner organisations
- Housing and public health staff
- Health staff
- Education staff
Learning objectives
In this course you will learn:
• What autism is
• What causes autism
• About the autistic spectrum
• What the three main challenges people with autism face
• About the typical characteristics of individuals with autism
• About the importance diagnosing autism
• About the strengths and positives of having autism
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements
Course assessment and certification
Upon successful completion of this online course you will be automatically awarded a certificate containing the course name and completion date, which can be downloaded.





