NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism

Autism cannot be characterised by a single symptom but differs from person to person, this unit will help you understand the complexity of the disorder, as well as what characteristics that could be presented with someone with ASD. You’ll learn conditions that commonly come hand-in-hand with it and learn misconceptions surrounding it with relating theory.

Legislation and guidance have a huge impact on how much support individuals with ASD get, this unit will broaden your knowledge of what legislations exist and how you can support people with autism using a person-centred approach, also covering confidentiality and working in partnerships.

There are a wide variety of symptoms, skills and levels of impairment that individuals with ASD can display, often affecting their communication and social interaction. This unit will allow you to understand communication in autism both verbally and nonverbally, covering echolalia, expressive communication, rules of social communications, and learning the difficulties that they present, as well as how certain factors can aid communication in people with autism.

Throughout this unit you’ll look at how sensory, perception and cognition can affect someone with ASD from how they process information, sensory overload and strategies for it. You’ll cover sensory stimulation, activities and therapies, low arousal environment, possible strategies and visual supports for someone with autism, as well as time and sequence materials.

Some individuals with autism have ‘challenging’ behaviour which can present differently from person to person. This unit will help you understand how to aid positive behaviour in people with ASD, covering strategies for managing that challenging behaviour, the settings, events and things that could trigger it, and the techniques and strategies for de-escalation, coping and reaction. It will also take you through how to identify emotions and expression, how change and transitions can affect someone with autism, and how to support individuals who are struggling to cope.

This unit aims to help you support individuals with ASD to live a healthy and fulfilled life, covering everything from development and puberty to bereavement and support. Although some people with ASD, and their family live their everyday lives with some challenges, this unit will allow you to understand the support you can offer to them. Covering education, employment and life changes, rights of people with autism, positive aspects of living with the disorder and the support to maintain personal safety. Also including safeguarding, bullying and exploitation, positive risk-taking and strategies to protect from harm and abuse. As well as cyber safety and risk assessments and how autism can be affected by life events and transition. You’ll take away a breadth of knowledge in many areas of Autism.