Workshop on Teaching Basic Skills to Children with Autism

This training course has been designed to explain where and how to begin educating children with autism and to equip participants with practical skills. The materials provided to participants clearly demonstrate, step by step, how to plan and deliver instruction in basic skills. In planning the course, consideration has been given to the session-based education system used by the majority of children with autism.

Course Content:

Many children with autism spectrum disorder perform below their potential because their families or educators demand advanced and complex skills without giving sufficient attention to the teaching of foundational skills. What these foundational skills are—which we might liken to the foundations of a building—and how they should be taught must be among the priority questions for educators and families. In this workshop, the fundamental skills that serve as prerequisites for many other skills in the development of children with autism spectrum disorder, and how these skills should be taught, will be shared based on over 15 years of practical experience. At the start of the workshop, we will discuss the teaching methods frequently used in the instruction of foundational skills. Subsequently, we will cover attention-directing, responding to names, following instructions, discrimination skills, requesting, waiting, prerequisite skills for developing language skills, basic play skills, and the teaching of simple and complex imitation skills, presented in a hierarchical sequence. During the workshop, how each skill is assessed, practised, data is collected and visualised will be explained, supported by videos and dramatisations.

Training Materials and Certificate Information:

All participants will receive a certificate of attendance, and the following materials will also be distributed:

• Sample data collection form
• Sample graph
• Worklists organised in hierarchical order for each programme
• Initial assessment form explaining how each skill is assessed
• Booklet explaining how each skill is practised

Who Can Attend:

Special needs teachers/specialists, psychologists, child development specialists, pre-school teachers, class teachers, teaching assistants, shadow teachers, parents.

Capacity: 30 participants

Duration: 6 hours

Fee: 350 TL

For the attention of participants:

Bank Account Details:

Participants are kindly requested to make their payments to the İş Bankası account in the name of "Çadem Psikoloji", with the IBAN number "TR15 0006 4000 0011 4500 0213 14".

Once you have made your payment, you must send your payment receipt to the email address [email protected]. For any questions regarding the training, please contact our Çadem Psikoloji Bakırköy Branch on 0212 570 06 07.

Requests for participation, cancellation, or refunds of the training fee will not be accepted after the registration date specified in the training content.

In the event of a training cancellation due to a reason attributable to ÇADEM PSİKOLOJİ, participants’ fees will be refunded within 15 days of the cancellation date.