Safeguarding Children and Young People and Autism Awareness

Safeguarding Children and Young People and Autism Awareness

The NCFE Level 2 Award in Safeguarding Children and Young People is an ideal qualification for those who work with children and young people who require specific training in this area.

This qualification has been developed in response to the Every Child Matters: Change for Children agenda. The qualification is supported by the Children’s Workforce Development Council, the Training and Development Agency for Schools and Lifelong Learning UK .

Autism is a diverse and mystifying condition that has been the focus of much scientific research over the last few decades. The Autism Awareness course aims to develop your understanding of autism and gives practical suggestions when working with autistic individuals.

Today, autism refers to a whole range of social, language and communication problems. Severity ranges from hardly there at all, often undiagnosed and even unrecognised, to severe, where it is virtually impossible for people to participate in society.

There are no boundaries between the conditions Kanner and Asperger identified, often people are in-between, whether in between Asperger’s syndrome and Kanner’s, or in between “normal” and Asperger’s syndrome. Therefore, collectively we refer to “autistic spectrum disorder”, or ASD, as this allows for the differences in both symptoms and severity. A person without ASD is called a neuro-typical.

This course will enable you to become familiar with various approaches to autism, have increased awareness of how to obtain a diagnosis and enable you to understand genetic environmental causes of autism. The Autism Awareness course will also explain how research in other conditions can help research into autism.

The aim of this module is to provide a better awareness of the term “autism” and “autistic spectrum disorder” (ASD).

• Define autism
• Understand the difference between autism and Asperger’s syndrome
• Explain the gender differences
• Identify conditions related to ASD
• Explain how research in other conditions can help research into autism