CONT912: Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Course Schedule

Registration will remain open until 4pm EST on the posted registration deadline date.

Course Description

How can you make your classroom more inclusive for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? Expanding your knowledge about ASD will enhance your teaching skills and make your classroom more inclusive. 

Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder looks at the background of autism, the team approach inside and outside the school to support learners with autism, and the supports and interventions to build relationships with students and families, colleagues and community resources. Making learning visible and using assistive technology to support social, communication, and emotional domains are also elements of the course.

You'll have the opportunity to develop a collaborative, strength-based, learner-centered IEP using core competency goals. You will consider the importance of transitions for learners with autism from entering Kindergarten to adulthood. The course finale celebrates your learning with a culminating task in which you choose how to show what you know.

In this course, you will have the opportunity to

• learn how autism affects students and families at different life stages and summarize characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
• explore supports for receptive language, expressive language, picture exchange communication systems (PECSs), visual supports, social narratives, and augmentative and alternative communication
• analyze the role of social communication, domains of autism, the language used when advocating for instructional support, and learner transitions across the grades
• discover and develop evidence−based supports for communication and social skills, and use restricted patterns of interests and activities for educational roles of those working with ASD students
• examine emerging trends in autism research
• plan and design a team approach to support students
• apply assistive technology and make learning visible
• prepare an IEP for peer review
• propose evidence-based practices for transitions and advocate for support in your classroom, school, and beyond 

Application Requirements

Courses and Post-Graduate Certificates are approved by TQS for Category Upgrade. If you would like these courses to be used towards Category Upgrading, you must have a valid BC Teacher Certificate.

ECEs, EAs, and other education professionals are welcome to take the courses without Certification.

Course Materials

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Accommodations

Applicants who require accommodations for a specific learning need (e.g., learning disability) within their AQ/ABQ course, should click here for further information and support.

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Refund Schedule

If you drop a course:

1. by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee.
2. after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee.

For more about our refund policies, visit our Fees & Refunds page.