Course Schedule
Session |
Course Dates |
Registration Deadline |
Status |
Summer 2022 |
Jun 27, 2022 – Aug 12, 2022 |
Jun 26, 2022 |
Open |
Late Summer 2022 |
Aug 08, 2022 – Sep 30, 2022 |
Aug 07, 2022 |
Open |
Fall 2022 |
Sep 26, 2022 – Dec 02, 2022 |
Sep 25, 2022 |
Open |
Fall/Winter 2022 |
Nov 07, 2022 – Feb 10, 2023 |
Nov 06, 2022 |
Open |
Winter 2023 |
Jan 23, 2023 – Apr 07, 2023 |
Jan 22, 2023 |
Open |
Late Winter 2023 |
Feb 20, 2023 – Apr 21, 2023 |
Feb 19, 2023 |
Open |
Summer 2022
- Dates: Jun 27, 2022 – Aug 12, 2022
- Deadline: Jun 26, 2022
- Status: Open
Late Summer 2022
- Dates: Aug 08, 2022 – Sep 30, 2022
- Deadline: Aug 07, 2022
- Status: Open
Fall 2022
- Dates: Sep 26, 2022 – Dec 02, 2022
- Deadline: Sep 25, 2022
- Status: Open
Fall/Winter 2022
- Dates: Nov 07, 2022 – Feb 10, 2023
- Deadline: Nov 06, 2022
- Status: Open
Winter 2023
- Dates: Jan 23, 2023 – Apr 07, 2023
- Deadline: Jan 22, 2023
- Status: Open
Late Winter 2023
- Dates: Feb 20, 2023 – Apr 21, 2023
- Deadline: Feb 19, 2023
- Status: Open
Registration will remain open until 4pm EST on the posted registration deadline date.
Course Description
The additional qualification course, Teaching Children with Communication Needs (autism spectrum disorders), focuses on the development and the implementation of program design for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This course provides a detailed look at the characteristics associated with ASD. You will explore research-based approaches to instruction and ways to negotiate challenging behaviour. This course looks at the significance of working with school-based teams and community personnel. Creating a positive learning environment that reflects care, diversity, and equity is the foundation of this course. This course enhances professional knowledge (through lived experience, inquiry, and reflection), ethical practice, and leadership. This course is aligned with the Ontario curriculum, legislation, government policies, frameworks, strategies, and resources.
In this course you will:
- analyze, interpret, and implement Ontario’s curriculum, district school board polices, frameworks, strategies, and guidelines
- apply background information regarding the characteristics of ASD
- explore theories that attempt to understand the triad of impairments
- generate ways to create a positive learning environment conducive to the intellectual, social, emotional, physical, cultural, spiritual, and moral development of students with ASD and design ways to develop their social skills
- develop awareness of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit perspectives and ways of knowing
- incorporate various types of programming and therapies such as applied behavioural analysis into classroom practice
- access and explore a variety of resources, including technology
- discover a variety of positive behavioural supports including reinforcement schedules
- collect information about sensory needs and ways to deal with sensory defensiveness
- develop an understanding of how to create and sustain professional learning communities
- develop lessons which show an understanding how to create and sustain safe, healthy, equitable, and inclusive learning environments that honour and respect diversity
- model and adapt expectations, strategies and assessment practices in response to the individual needs of students
- facilitate the creation of learning environments conducive to the intellectual, social, emotional, physical, environmental, linguistic, cultural, spiritual, and moral development of the student
- identify ways to collaborate with in-school personnel, parents/guardians, and the community
- refine professional practice through ongoing inquiry, dialogue, and reflection
- support and model ethical practices
- illustrate the need to respect and conserve resources in the environment
- integrate environmentally respectful perspectives and practices
Application Requirements
We will use the OCT number you provide during online registration to confirm that you are an OCT member.
Course Materials
N/A
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:
- by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee.
- after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee.
Session |
100% Refund Deadline |
50% Refund Deadline |
Spring 2022 | May 06, 2022 | Jun 10, 2022 |
Late Spring 2022 | Jun 03, 2022 | Jul 01, 2022 |
Summer 2022 | Jul 15, 2022 | Aug 12, 2022 |
Late Summer 2022 | Sep 02, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 |
Fall 2022 | Oct 28, 2022 | Dec 02, 2022 |
Fall/Winter 2022 | Dec 23, 2022 | Feb 10, 2023 |
Winter 2023 | Feb 24, 2023 | Apr 07, 2023 |
Late Winter 2023 | Mar 17, 2023 | Apr 21, 2023 |
Spring 2022
- 100% Refund Deadline: May 06, 2022
- 50% Refund Deadline: Jun 10, 2022
Late Spring 2022
- 100% Refund Deadline: Jun 03, 2022
- 50% Refund Deadline: Jul 01, 2022
Summer 2022
- 100% Refund Deadline: Jul 15, 2022
- 50% Refund Deadline: Aug 12, 2022
Late Summer 2022
- 100% Refund Deadline: Sep 02, 2022
- 50% Refund Deadline: Sep 30, 2022
Fall 2022
- 100% Refund Deadline: Oct 28, 2022
- 50% Refund Deadline: Dec 02, 2022
Fall/Winter 2022
- 100% Refund Deadline: Dec 23, 2022
- 50% Refund Deadline: Feb 10, 2023
Winter 2023
- 100% Refund Deadline: Feb 24, 2023
- 50% Refund Deadline: Apr 07, 2023
Late Winter 2023
- 100% Refund Deadline: Mar 17, 2023
- 50% Refund Deadline: Apr 21, 2023
For more about our refund policies, visit our Fees & Refunds page.