Supporting Children and Young People with Autism

Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
T/615/2869
Credits:
7
Guided learning hours:
27 hours

Assessment Guidance

Portfolio of Evidence

Aim

To provide learners with an in-depth understanding of strategies that can be used to support the learning and development of children and young people with autism and the skills to apply some of these strategies in practice with a specific child or young person.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Understand the impairments and sensory sensitivities associated with autism.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1

    Explain how the areas of difference associated with autism can be categorised into either a triad or dyad of impairments.

  • 1.2

    Summarise the characteristics associated with each area of difference.

  • 1.3
    Explain how children and young people with autism may be hypersensitive or hyposensitive within each of the seven senses.
  • 1.4

    Assess the areas of difference, in relation to the triad or dyad including the sensory sensitivities of an individual child or young person with autism.

2

Be able to devise and use visual strategies to support learning and development.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Explain how visual strategies can be used to support the learning and development of children and young people with autism.
  • 2.2
    Develop different visual strategies for an individual child or young person for different purposes, providing information on how each strategy will be applied, monitored and its impact measured.
  • 2.3
    Implement, monitor and revise as necessary, a visual strategy for an individual child or young person with autism.
  • 2.4
    Review the effectiveness of the strategy and its impact.
3

Be able to assess the communication abilities and development needs of a child or young person with autism.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Evaluate an individual child’s or young person’s ability to communicate against the stages of typical communication development.
  • 3.2
    Explain how assessment findings can be used to support the development of communication skills in a child or young person with autism.
4

Be able to evaluate techniques, strategies and resources for supporting the development of communication skills for a child or young person with autism.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1
    Evaluate the appropriateness of different techniques and strategies that could be used to support the development of communication skills for an individual child or young person.
  • 4.2
    Assess the effectiveness of the resources and techniques used to support the development of communication skills for an individual child or young person.
5

Understand strategies to support the development of social skills in children and young people with autism.

Assessment Criteria

  • 5.1
    Explain how different strategies for developing social skills could be applied to support the development of social skills for an individual child or young person with autism.
  • 5.2
    Analyse the effectiveness of the strategies used to develop the social skills of an individual child or young person with autism.
6

Understand how to develop a suitable learning environment for children or young people with autism.

Assessment Criteria

  • 6.1
    Evaluate a specific setting against relevant local and national standards to assess its suitability as a learning environment for children or young people with autism.
  • 6.2
    Explain how a specific environment could be improved to better support the learning and development of children or young people with autism.
7

Be able to develop an effective relationship with the parents/carers of children or young people with autism.

Assessment Criteria

  • 7.1

    Assess the effectiveness of own relationship with the parents/carers of an individual child or young person.

  • 7.2

    Identify and implement improvements to own relationship with the parents/carers of an individual child or young person.

8

Be able to analyse the behaviour of a child or young person with autism and identify strategies for reducing or eliminating challenging behaviours.

Assessment Criteria

  • 8.1
    Use an appropriate tool to record relevant observations of the behaviour of an individual child or young person with autism over a period of days.
  • 8.2

    Identify behaviour that is challenging, the factors contributing to or causing the challenging behaviour, and what the child ore young person may be communicating through their behaviour.

  • 8.3

    Explain possible strategies for addressing challenging behaviours of an individual child or young person with autism.

  • 8.4

    Identify the skills the individual child or young person needs to better to self-regulate their own behaviour.