Middletown Masterclasses

Masterclass: Autism and Emotional Regulation
This Masterclass will focus on key considerations when supporting emotional regulation for children and young people in both Primary and Post Primary environments. This training explores interoception as a key concept when supporting autistic students learning about their body signals and promoting regulation, helping children to become aware, label and express their emotions gives them the skills to manage alongside their peers.

This Masterclass is suitable for any educational professional with previous training or experience supporting an autistic student’s emotional regulation.

Participants will:
Understand how to adapt or change the environment to support emotional regulation.

Increase understanding of the physiological basis of fight, flight and freeze responses and how this relates to emotional regulation.

Have an increased understanding of impact of sensory processing including interoception on nervous system responses.

Consider communication and gestalt language processing and links to emotional regulation.

Develop an understanding of how to individualise supports to suit the child or young person.

Use a neurodiversity affirming approach to support development of self and co-regulation skills.

Middletown Centre Masterclass:

This Masterclass has a limited number of places for experienced education professionals who work closely with autistic children and young people in a variety of education settings.

Middletown Autism Centre Masterclass Overview 

Friday 15th November 2024 

Key Aims 

• To explore and reflect on the wide-ranging individual needs, strengths and interests of autistic children and young people. 
• To identify and critically discuss the practical challenges in effectively meeting wide-ranging individual needs within the classroom context. 
• To develop knowledge, understanding and skills in the use of specialist supports including the consideration of adult intervention, resourcing and classroom management and environmental design. 

Learning Outcomes 

• To demonstrate the ability to identify the individual needs, strengths and interests of autistic children and young people using a range of case study examples. 
• To troubleshoot how to overcome the practical challenges in meeting wide-ranging individual needs within the classroom context and identify appropriate and meaningful specialist supports to promote learning. 
• To develop a bank of ideas and supports to support the wide-ranging individual needs of autistic children and young people within the classroom context to include adaptations to classroom design, management, adult intervention and resourcing. 

This Masterclass aims to support school leaders and experienced teachers to critically reflect on and identify with a broader range of individual need within the classroom context. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in the use of specialist supports to enhance learning including the effective use of adult intervention, resourcing, classroom management and environmental design.  

Participants will be encouraged to engage in group discussion, reflect on their own practice, troubleshoot practical challenges using case study scenarios and develop a bank of ideas and supports for use in the classroom context.