This course enables delegates to learn about autistic experience and supportive approaches. We would recommend this for professionals working across a range of settings. It is an introductory course aiming to build your knowledge of autism and how to support autistic children and adults, using the principles of the SPELL framework.

This course is aimed at people who are managing or working with autistic colleagues. The session focuses on strategies for managers and colleagues to increase their understanding of autism and develop their confidence in identifying and implementing reasonable adjustments for their autistic colleagues.

This course is aimed at HR professionals who are wanting to create an autism-friendly recruitment process, in order to attract and support autistic individuals in applying and interviewing for vacant opportunities at their organisation.

If you are looking to provide your staff with a more in-depth introduction to autism and autistic experience, this course will develop your knowledge and understanding through exploring key areas of difference.

This course is aimed at professionals who already have an understanding of autism, this training introduces the National Autistic Society’s SPELL framework and supportive approaches. SPELL is a framework for understanding and responding to autistic people’s needs. It will allow you to develop better practice and use evidence-based strategies to support autistic children and adults.

Enhance employee understanding of autism through lunch and learn sessions, tailored to your organization's needs. Topics covered include neurodiversity, autism, areas of difference, anxiety, and necessary adjustments.

A course exploring how you can help autistic children and adults to reduce stress and anxiety, how to understand behaviour, and how to support them during difficult times.

This course explores how sensory differences can impact autistic people and what supportive approaches may help.

This course focuses on the common toileting difficulties in autistic children.

This course focuses on understanding and supporting autistic children with eating challenges.

A workshop delivered by Dr Siobhan Timmins, Certified Social Stories Trainer, with the aim of supporting people in understanding how to develop and use Social Stories™.

This module provides perspectives from autistic people about how autism is defined and experienced. It will enable learners to recognise the strengths and challenges experienced by many autistic people and how to respond to create enabling environments.

This module explores how to recognise communication differences for autistic people and which factors impact upon successful communication. Learners will be able to better recognise the impact of these differences, aiming to reduce barriers to successful communication.

This module explores how people respond to information from the senses and how this can be experienced differently by autistic people. Learners will be better able to recognise the impact of these differences for autistic people and how to provide effective support.

This module explores the differences in how autistic people experience stress and anxiety. Learners will explore the factors that impact on stress and anxiety, in order to provide effective support to reduce the impact of stress and anxiety on autistic people.

This module explores providing support for people on the autism spectrum and their families. Learners will discover the experiences of families, consider common difficulties and acquire effective approaches for support. 

This module provides an introduction to autism, whilst focusing on the delivery of sport. Developed as part of the active for autism project, it focuses on the how recognising and understanding potential key areas of difficulty experienced by both the participants and the session leaders is vital to providing effective support.

This module aims to make the police more aware of autism and give them a better understanding of autism and ways in which they can offer support to autistic people. It focuses on different elements of policing by using case studies, exploring people's experiences in public spaces, and offering advice on how to make reasonable adjustments.

This module aims to support professionals to identify autistic women and girls. It is specifically aimed at diagnosticians, but was developed in such a way that it should be useful to anyone with an interest in autism, including autistic people, parents, carers and a wide range of other professionals. 

This module aims to increase participants’ understanding of autism and develop their confidence in identifying and implementing reasonable adjustments for their autistic colleagues.  It is suitable for all staff working alongside or managing autistic colleagues including managers, supervisors, HR staff, colleagues and workplace mentors. 

The aim of the module is to increase understanding of autistic experience, autistic mental health experiences and to explore supportive strategies to support young autistic people’s mental health.  

This module is specifically aimed at staff working in the public transport sector. It provides insight into autistic experience, and encourages delegates to consider what adjustments could make transport more accessible.

Essential Bundle (5for4): This bundle will give you access to all 5 of our essential modules for the price of 4. Modules include: Understanding Autism, Autism & Communication, Autism & Sensory Experience, Autism, Stress and Anxiety, Autism: Supporting Families.

Non-medical helpers and mentors (NMH) Bundle Our NMH bundles consists of six modules for the price of five: Understanding autism, Autism and communication, Autism and sensory experience, Autism, stress and anxiety, Autism: supporting families, Women and girls on the autism spectrum.

This course is for university staff who support autistic students and want to know more about autism and supportive approaches. This course meets part of the NMH Mandatory Qualifications for Specialist Mentor Autism and Specialist one-to-one Study Skills and Strategy Support – Autism.

This course develops your understanding of how to carry out care and support needs assessments that are sensitive to the needs of autistic adults.

This course focuses on how and why autistic people may be involved with the Criminal Justice System, and how professionals should be adapting their processes to meet their needs.

The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO) training is for clinical professionals who want to develop their clinical practice in assessing and diagnosing autism spectrum disorders. We offer two DISCO courses; a course for professionals who are looking to train in DISCO, and an update course for accredited DISCO users.

Mandatory training on learning disability and autism, with the expertise of autistic people, people with a learning disability and subject matter experts. The training is delivered by the National Autistic Society, who deliver the autism content and have been involved in ‘Oliver’s training’ since 2020, and the Estia Centre, a training centre that specialises in delivering training on learning disability.

4-day Tier 2 Lead Trainer training which will enable you to deliver all Oliver McGowan Mandatory Tier 2 training options to health and social care professionals.

This training licenses autism experienced professionals to deliver a one-day Essential Autism course to their staff teams.

A training course that licenses autism experienced professionals to deliver a two-day Autism and SPELL course to their staff teams.

This licensed user training will enable you to deliver the EarlyBird (under six years), EarlyBird Plus (ages five to ten years) or Teen Life (ages 10 to 16 years) parent support programmes to parents and carers of autistic children and young people.

This licensed user training is for professionals who are already licensed for EarlyBird Plus, and would like also to deliver the EarlyBird Programme.

4-day Tier 2 Lead Trainer training which will enable you to deliver all Oliver McGowan Mandatory Tier 2 training options to health and social care professionals.

This session offers a short introduction to neurodiversity and neurodivergence.

The course aims to develop delegates’ understanding of neurodivergence and supportive approaches and how to be a neurodiversity champion.

This postgraduate course is a successful collaboration between Sheffield Hallam University and the National Autistic Society.