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Kerry Intervention and Disability Services - Mid Kerry Network, Tralee, Kerry

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Autism and the Teenage Years.        

                                                                  
Course Content 
This training event will explain what autism is and will examine why students can experience difficulties when faced with a transition to teenage life.   This session is the foundation for understanding commonly associated difficulties: challenging behaviour, sensory processing, anxiety and social communication.  The importance and design of a planned transition programme and the role of the parents in this process will be examined along with ideas and suggestions as to how best to prepare the young person for forthcoming adolescence and adulthood.  


Expected Outcomes.                                                                                            
Participants will have a better understanding of:                                                 
• The characteristics of autism,           
• How young people with autism think and learn                                                                   
• The associated features of autism,                                                                      
• The underlying reasons of how autism can impact the adolescent years.        
• Transition planning and the role of parents.

Location

Kerry Intervention and Disability Services - Mid Kerry Network
Aras an Phobaill, Boherbee
Tralee
Kerry
V92CRW8
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Majella Nugent

Majella Nugent

Majella Nugent is an Autism Trainer/Advisor in Middletown Centre for Autism. Majella has experience teaching and supporting autistic children and young people in schools. Majella’s experiences include Pre-school, Mainstream Primary and Post-Primary and Special Schools across Ireland. Majella also has experience teaching autistic students in Further Education. She has lectured and assessed modules on the Early Childhood Foundation Degree and the Level Three Autism qualification, as professional development for parents and professionals. Majella’s training specialism is Relationship and Sexuality Education, Transitions and Special Education Needs. Majella has contributed to the development of the curriculum as a Professional Associate with CCEA for learners with MLD and co-ordinated specialist trainings including Transition to Higher Education (Ulster University and Trinity College Dublin), 16+ Education and Employment, and Sibling trainings. Majella is an Associate Lecturer on the Post Graduate Certificate with Mary Immaculate College Limerick.

Event summary

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Kerry Intervention and Disability Services - Mid Kerry Network , Tralee , Kerry

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