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Learning Disability and Autism (Level 2)

A deeper course for carers supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people — communication that works, sensory worlds, understanding distress, the health signs that get missed, independence and everyday risk, and working with families and routines. Judgement, scenarios and escalation throughout. Builds on Learning Disability and Autism Awareness.

Modules
7
Lessons
7
Progress
0%

What you'll learn

  • Beyond awareness: the person, not the label
  • Communication that works
  • Sensory worlds: overload, meltdown and shutdown
  • Distress and behaviour: what it tells you
  • Health inequalities: the signs that get missed
  • Independence, choice and everyday risk
  • Families, routines and transitions — bringing it together

Course content

Beyond awareness: the person, not the label

  • Beyond awareness: the person, not the label
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Communication that works

  • Communication that works

Sensory worlds: overload, meltdown and shutdown

  • Sensory worlds: overload, meltdown and shutdown

Distress and behaviour: what it tells you

  • Distress and behaviour: what it tells you

Health inequalities: the signs that get missed

  • Health inequalities: the signs that get missed

Independence, choice and everyday risk

  • Independence, choice and everyday risk

Families, routines and transitions — bringing it together

  • Families, routines and transitions — bringing it together