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Working within ASD programmes

  • 08-11-2012 10:10am
    #1
    slingerz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,295 ✭✭✭


    Hi i was wondering what qualifications/route would someone need to follow in order to work with children who have autisim/other conditions in secondary school?

    any advice would be apprecirated.


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  • #2
    eager tortoise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭eager tortoise


    There are a few different roles that would be relevant, depending on the context. I work in a voluntary secondary school that has an ASD unit within it, but all of the students in the unit participate to some degree in mainstream classes so really all teachers are working with them. There are a couple of teachers with postgraduate qualifications in Special Needs Education and they are really the facilitators of these students in terms of assessments, organising how they access they curriculum, taking them for small group life skills lessons etc. Then there are the Special Needs Assistants that work with these students as they participate in mainstream, to ensure they are supported etc.

    The students would also see educational psychologists, who may assess and determine what level of support they need as they progress through their education.


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