Autism and Understanding Anxiety for those with additional learning difficulties

Autism and Understanding Anxiety for those with additional learning difficulties.
For many autistic students, school can be a major source of stress. Everyone shows their anxiety in individual ways, so the most reliable observations that a student is anxious are going to be made by the people who know the student best. This shows the importance of working closely not only within the family structure, but also with the school staff.

This session is an introduction to supports that can be used to alleviate the experience of anxiety in autistic students. This will include an introduction to cognitively based supports and how to develop student centred supports to deal with anxiety.

Participants will:

• Recognise signs of escalating anxiety and potential emotional responses
• Develop a range of simple supportive approaches to prevent the escalation of anxiety.
• Understand the fundamentals of cognitively based management approaches.