Autism Awareness Course
What will I learn?
Improve your skills with our 'Understanding Autism in The Gambia' course. It's designed for health workers who want to learn more about Autism Spectrum Disorder. This short, good-quality course talks about important things like keeping to a schedule, using pictures to help, and ways to make things easier for people with sensory issues. You'll learn how to spot problems, work with families, and build support groups. We'll also teach you how to keep people feeling safe and manage things that might overwhelm their senses. You'll get useful, real-world ideas to make things better for your patients and create places where everyone feels welcome.
Apoia's Unique Features
Develop skills
Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below
Learn how to make and stick to schedules so things go smoothly.
Use pictures and other visual aids to help people understand and communicate.
Work together with families and other health workers to give the best support.
Use methods to make places and activities easier on the senses, so everyone can join in.
Figure out what things might bother someone's senses and learn how to handle them to avoid meltdowns.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.
- Choose which chapter to start with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can add
You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below
This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.