Autism and Understanding Anxiety: Autistic Children and Young People with High Care and Education Needs

Autism and Understanding Anxiety: Autistic Children and Young People with High Care and Education Needs

For many autistic children and young people with high care and education needs, school can be a major source of stress. Everyone shows their anxiety in an individual manner, so the most reliable observations that a child or young person is anxious are going to be made by the people who know the child or young person 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 children and young people with high care and education needs.

This will include an introduction to cognitively based supports and how to develop child or young person 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.