10 Top Tips to Successful Education
By Dean Beadle
Successful education is about aiding and nurturing our young people to grow in to fully formed and well-rounded individuals. Regardless of shrinking budgets and the economic climate, we can still make ahuge difference to young people on the autism spectrum, because it is the strength of their relationships with their teachers and support staff that makes the most difference to them.
In the upcoming workshops Dean will be outlining the following issues and principles which he believes to be good practice for working with children on the autism spectrum:
1. Special interests/obsessions can be an invaluable a teaching tool.
2. Teaching social skills is as important as teaching academics.
3. In order to resolve a behaviour you must first understand the causes.
4. Put as much focus on the child’s strengths as you do on their targets and weaknesses.
5. Empower each child to see that their condition doesn’t have to hold them back in life.
6. Understanding the purpose and reasons for obsessive rituals.
7. Encouraging people with autism to stretch out their comfort zones.
8. Help young people to feel part of the solution rather than the cause of the problem.
9. Remember that children with autism are children, and therefore they should be allowed to make the same mistakes as other children.
10. Remember that behind every diagnosis is a child with individual needs – no two children with autism are exactly the same.
Dean Beadle is a public speaker and writer who is proud of being on the autism spectrum and he wouldn’t change it for the world. He is a successful adult. But it hasn’t always been that way. In the mid-1990s Dean was frequently being suspended from school and many believed that he’d end up in prison. This humorous and insightful speech will highlight: How did he manage to turn his life around? What strategies worked for Dean? How did Dean grow to accept his difference and celebrate it? Why were hairbands and cupboards so significant in Dean’s childhood? Find out all of this and more in this honest, thought provoking and inspirational session.
Don’t miss the exciting joint sessions with Dean!
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Melbourne (St Kilda) Thursday 23 May
Canberra Friday 24 May
Sydney (Burwood) Monday 27 May
For more information and to register
http://suelarkey.com.au/index.php?pr=Workshops