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

Participants will:

• Appreciate how anxiety can escalate and may result in an emotional response
• Develop some simple supportive approaches to prevent the escalation of anxiety.
• Understand the basics of cognitively based management approaches.