Understanding & managing children and young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by Professor Rita Jordan

8.00pm - 10pm
at Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton.

This talk will take a brief look at what we know about the biology and psychology of ASD and how this can help parents, support staff and teachers understand and work with children and young people across the autism spectrum. It considers issues of how we conceptualise the disorder and the need to base our work on understanding individual needs through the perspective of the ASD ‘lens’.

Rita has a BSc: Psychology, an MSc: Child Development & Research Methods and an MA : Linguistics. She is a qualified teacher who has taught in mainstream and special schools, including 9 years as Deputy Principal of a school for children with ASD. She has taught special needs, language development, clinical linguistics, education, and cognitive science in Higher Education. Since 1993, she developed a range of professional development programmes in autism studies at The University of Birmingham, including a web-based one. She has written about and researched many aspects of ASD and has been involved in training events, consultations and conferences all over the world. She is editor of Autism: the International Journal of Research and Practice and serves on the Editorial Board of 3 other journals. She was consultant to the Expert Committee on the Education of Children and Young People with Autism for the Council of Europe (2003-2006).

This talk should be of interest to parents, counsellors, therapists, health care professionals, social workers, teachers and others working with children and young people.

This lecture will be held at the BRIGHTHELM COMMUNITY CENTRE, North Road, Brighton.