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Scoil Eoin Phóil Naofa, Tullamore, Offaly

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Autism and Anxiety Management
Primary aged children with autism experience anxiety in many situations, with some experiencing significant anxiety difficulties. While many reasons are shared with typically developing children, there are some key factors relating to autism that mean stress and anxiety are more likely. Everyone shows their anxiety in individual ways so the most reliable observations that a child is anxious are going to be made by the people who know the child best. This shows the importance of working closely not only within the wider family circle but also with the school staff.

This session is an introduction to strategies that can be used to alleviate the experience of anxiety in children with autism. This will include an introduction to cognitively based strategies and how to develop child centred strategies to deal with anxiety. 


Expected Outcomes
Parents will:
• Understand how the core difficulties of autism, including sensory difficulties, can contribute to the development of anxiety.
• Understand how anxiety can escalate and may result in an outburst.
• Develop some simple strategies to prevent the escalation of anxiety.
• Understand the basics of cognitively based management approaches.


Course Overview / Content 
• Anxiety triggers and build up.
• ‘On the spot’ anxiety management strategies.
• Developing a ‘stress kit’.
• Cognitively based approaches and the emotional toolkit.
 

Location

Scoil Eoin Phóil Naofa
Arden View, Puttaghan
Tullamore
Offaly
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Lorna Fitzpatrick

Lorna Fitzpatrick

Lorna Fitzpatrick is an Autism Trainer/Advisor in Middletown Centre for Autism. Lorna has 20 years’ experience in special education and has led an ETI initiative in the management of severe challenging behaviour and learning difficulties using a collaborative multiagency approach in the Belfast area. She has a qualification from the Institute of Applied Behaviour Analysis, California in the assessment and functional analysis of challenging behaviour and is also a Team Teach tutor. Lorna has a Professional Qualification in Headship and has been a member of the Senior Leadership team in Special Schools for the past 8 years.

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Scoil Eoin Phóil Naofa , Tullamore , Offaly

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