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St. Catherine's Special School, Newcastle, Wicklow

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Autism, Severe Learning Difficulties and Developing Social and Leisure Activities

This course looks at developing play, social and leisure skills for children and young people who have autism and severe learning difficulties. It looks at how to enable children and young people to make active choices in how they spend their free time, at the specific teaching strategies to enable understanding of the social rules of recreational activities and at involving pupils with complex needs in the wider learning community. This can range from something as simple as being able to watch a DVD for ten minutes while a parent makes a phone call, to more complex skills like turn taking, sharing, waiting, making positive choices, and communicating personal preferences.

Expected Outcomes
Parents will:
• Gain an understanding of the importance of developing social and leisure skills for independence, personal well-being and for extra-curricular life.
• Identify strategies to promote choice making, access to leisure facilities in the community, and teaching points for practicing the small steps towards the over-arching skills required to engage in social and leisure activities.

Course Overview / Content 
Overview:
• What do we mean by social and leisure choices? Why are they important?
• How can we identify student preferences and allow for meaningful communication of these? 
• What strategies can we use to teach children and young people with severe learning difficulties how to engage in social and leisure activities appropriately, and with increasing independence?

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St. Catherine's Special School
Killmullen Lane
Newcastle
Wicklow
A63 X935
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Event summary

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St. Catherine's Special School , Newcastle , Wicklow

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