Live Interactive: Get Konnected

Description

Our Get Konnected Autism and Social Skills Course is designed and delivered by our director Evaleen Whelton. Evaleen was diagnosed as an adult and created a social skills course for Autistic children over 8 years ago. She is also author of Konnect Series of Social Skills Books for kids aged four upwards. She developed this course to teach adults about the Autistic way of communicating and to “unteach” many of the myths that surround Autistic Communication.

Here’s what Yael Clark, Educational & Developmental Psychologist who recently completed this course says: “

“Evaleen is going to make you think! She’ll challenge your assumptions and take your understanding of autism to a whole new level. As a trainer, an author, and as an autistic advocate, Evaleen has added both to my professional knowledge and my self-knowledge. I am using her Konnect workbooks for my child clients and I finally feel like my support of autistic children is affirming and strengths-based, fostering self-respect and self-advocacy skills in my young clients while helping them to make sense of the social rules of the world in which we live. I wish I had had these books when I was a child!”

Get Konnected Autism and Social Skills Course

The live social skills course takes place over zoom. We will send you a link to join the course a day or two prior to the course date. We will also send you our Get Konnected Activity Book in pdf, slides, resources and a cert of completion.

The Get Konnected Autism and Social Skills Course aims to explain to you what communication is like for the Autistic person.

Course Content:

• What is autism?
• What are the social difficulties Autistic people have ?
• Explaining Autistic differences in communication.
• The models of disability
• Double Empathy
• Looking at how these differences, when misunderstood, can effect a child’s happiness and self esteem.
• Positive solutions for both child & parent or professional when we look at behaviour as part of communication.

Our Get Konnected Social Skills Course includes our Get Konnected Book with 40 pages of Activities:

• All about me: Self exploration activities
• Body Language: what it is, what it means and how to teach children about it through games & activities.
• Introduction to Autistic Body Language for parents & professionals. (eye contact, autistic facial expressions & early signs of distress and signs of emotion)
• Vocal Communication: How others use their voices to show meaning or emotion.
• Introduction to autistic communication of emotions.
• Activities & Steps to teach “joining in” and how to read the group situation.
• Introduction to Autistic Sensory Input
• Teaching children about friendship and ways to evaluate a friendship.
• Introduction to Autistic Friendship Model
• Activities on teamwork & conflict resolution and why these are particularly difficult if you can’t read each others body language.
• Activities on conversations and how they work.