University of Birmingham
- Start Date: 18 Jul, 2022
- 4 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Develop your insight and skills to better understand how attention works in autistic people.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Build strategies to meet the needs of children with autism
As more people are diagnosed with autism, it is very likely that a teacher will have to teach an autistic child at some point in their career. Research has shown that adapting strategies to meet the needs of autistic children can benefit all children in a classroom.
On this four-week course from the University of Birmingham, you’ll explore the concept of attention and its impact on autistic people. Given the potential benefits of attention on broader academic attainment and inclusion, this course will help you develop tools to assess and teach attention in autistic children at school.
Explore attention control and sustained attention on the autism spectrum
Attention control is comprised of several relatively high-level cognitive mechanisms, all of which are critical for learning.
This course will guide you through the ideas of attention and its links to neurodivergence such as autism and ADHD. You’ll look at studies showing the different ways that attention can be improved in students with poorer sustained attention.
Discover techniques and technologies to support attention training
Technology seems so appealing for many individuals with autism and can significantly help with attention and learning. Technology can be a useful educational tool in a teacher’s toolbox to use based on pedagogical decisions, especially for children with autism.
You’ll explore the various technologies used to support autistic children’s learning, as well as the research studies and evidence on the topic.
Dive into Computerized Progressive Attentional Training program
Throughout the final week of this course, you’ll focus on the Computerized Progressive Attentional Training (CPAT) program and how you can use CPAT to support attention training in autism.
This course is designed for teaching staff as well as anyone working with individuals with autism.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham has been challenging and developing great minds for more than a century.
Characterised by a tradition of innovation, research at the University has broken new ground, pushed forward the boundaries of knowledge and made an impact on people’s lives.
The University continues this tradition today and has ambitions for a future that will embed its work and recognition of the Birmingham name on the international stage.
Universities are never complete. They develop as new challenges and opportunities occur. At Birmingham the aim is to innovate and push the frontiers of understanding; it asks new research questions and turns theory through experiment into practice – because that’s what great universities do.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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