Inclusive Practice: Autism (6-hour, face-to-face course)

Assess · Plan · Do · Review

Part of Inclusion by Team Teach

Inclusive Practice: Autism is a practical, face-to-face, CPD-certified course from Inclusion by Team Teach. It helps schools build consistent, evidence-informed practice that educators can apply immediately.

Overview

This CPD-certified course has been created to provide practical support to anyone working with autistic children and young people in schools and education settings.

Many of us are aware of autism and how it can impact an individual’s learning experience, but it can be difficult to know how we should adapt everyday practice to support our students more inclusively, how to remove any barriers to learning for them, and how we can respond more confidently and consistently to meet their individual needs.


Inclusive Practice: Autism helps staff understand how autistic students may experience communication, sensory environments, transitions, learning, and emotional regulation and how unmet needs can shape behaviour.

Course attendees will learn practical, inclusive strategies for real-life situations, to enable autistic students to participate effectively in learning, build self-esteem and independence, engage with staff, peers and their environment successfully, and develop a strong sense of belonging.


The 6-hour course covers:

  • Autism and neurodiversity, including a move away from deficit-based language.
  • How differences in communication, cognition, interests and learning may show up in the classroom.
  • The sensory and physical environment, including the eight sensory systems, environmental overload, visual supports and structured teaching.
  • Behaviour as communication, anxiety and emotional regulation.
  • Transitions, curriculum adaptations, social interaction and play.
  • Working with parents, carers and SEND professionals, alongside whole-school practice.


Who is this course for?

Anyone working with children or young people who would like to deepen their understanding of autism and possible barriers to learning, discover how unmet needs can shape behaviour, and develop practical strategies to support students for more inclusive and effective learning environments.

Headteachers, senior leaders, SENDCOs, inclusion leads, MAT leaders, teachers, teaching assistants, learning support staff, behaviour leads and pastoral teams.


Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain current evidence-informed perspectives on autism and how these influence behaviour, communication and learning.
  • Recognise the impact of sensory processing, executive functioning, communication differences and emotional regulation on participation in school.
  • Apply practical, strengths-based strategies that reduce barriers and promote inclusion within mainstream classrooms.
  • Use the Assess, Plan, Do, Review framework to identify needs, implement reasonable adjustments and evaluate their impact.
  • Work effectively with pupils, families and colleagues to develop consistent, person-centred approaches that improve outcomes for autistic learners.

This course is delivered in four parts:

Part / TitleKey Topics & ThemesModules Covered
PART 1 Assess — Seeing the Whole Picture
  • What autism is and isn't, and key thinking frameworks (double empathy problem, monotropism, and predictive processing)
  • Why identification isn't culturally neutral, masking, autistic burnout, and Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)
  • Reframing assessment to build a full picture of strengths alongside difficulties, rather than a deficit checklist
Module 1: Foundations of autism & neurodiversity
Module 2: Understanding autism in the classroom
PART 2 Plan — Language, Experience & Partnership
  • Why language matters, sensory processing needs, and interoception
  • Redesigning transitions rather than expecting a child to cope with a difficult one
  • The social experience of autistic pupils, families as experts, and unequal family access to systems
  • Supporting children as their own advocates and supporting neurodivergent colleagues
Module 3: The sensory & physical environment
Module 4: Behaviour as communication & emotional regulation
PART 3 Do — Communication, Executive Function & Strategies
  • Matching strategies to the need in front of you rather than relying on the label
  • Modelling and scaffolding executive function, and why forced eye contact costs processing capacity
  • Effective visual support, now-and-next boards, and deploying TAs to extend teaching rather than replace it
Module 5: Inclusive pedagogy & transitions
PART 4 Review — Progress & Leading Change
  • How autism overlaps with other neurodivergence and trauma
  • Building lasting change through visible quick wins and standing review cycles
  • Prioritising inclusive design over individual fixes, whole-school consistency, legal frameworks, and addressing the impact of exclusion
Module 6: Collaboration & professional practice

What makes this different from other autism training courses?

This course:

  • Explains the cause behind the behaviour: covers the thinking frameworks driving behaviour and experience, so the strategies make sense rather than feeling like a checklist.
  • Intersectionality runs through every section: race, gender, sex, class, language and other identities run through the whole day, covering who gets missed, misread or diagnosed late, rather than sitting in a single add on slide.
  • Strengths based throughout: strengths and difficulties are treated as coexisting, not autism framed purely as a deficit.
  • Focuses on the system: strategies focus on redesigning transitions, the sensory environment and how support is offered, rather than asking a child to mask or try harder.
  • Built to last beyond the day: the Assess, Plan, Do, Review structure mirrors the graduated approach itself, so staff can keep using it back at school, backed by the workbook’s activities and glossary of terms.


Additional info:

  • Certificates are valid for 12 months.
  • A branded participant digital workbook is included, with activities, a glossary and a legal quick reference section.
  • Access to the Inclusion Knowledge Hub with 20+ hours of downloadable resources, videos, articles, podcasts, live and recorded webinars, practical tools and insights to strengthen positive inclusion practices.


The Team Teach Experience

Team Teach is an accredited, award-winning provider of training in behavioural support strategies. The Team Teach approach and philosophy have been developed by practitioners with over 25 years’ experience in delivering respectful, accessible and practical behaviour, inclusion and SEND support solutions.

Team Teach has supported more than 13,000 settings globally to develop effective approaches to behaviour support and reduce the need for restrictive physical intervention when responding to behaviours of concern.

Our work has consistently shown that behaviour cannot be considered in isolation. Understanding the individual needs, communication, environment and circumstances that influence behaviour is central to creating safe, supportive and inclusive environments.

This understanding provides a natural foundation for our work in inclusion and SEND. Drawing on our experience of working with educators and support staff across a wide range of settings, our inclusion training focuses on helping staff better understand the needs of children and young people, recognise barriers to participation and learning, and put practical strategies in place to support inclusion.

By connecting inclusive practice with behaviour support, we help settings take a more proactive approach: understanding needs earlier, adapting practice where appropriate and creating environments in which children and young people are better able to engage, learn and thrive.

We are the only company of our kind to have received a National Training Award, the highest level of award in the UK. Focused on teamwork and communication, our courses foster supportive working practices, helping people recognise the needs of the children and adults they work with, offer help where necessary, and be able to make use of support when offered.


Ready to book your training?

Please select your course from the available dates and locations.

You can book online using a valid credit card or generate an invoice for your employer.

By purchasing this training, you acknowledge that Team Teach Connect is included as part of your purchase. The Team Teach Connect fee will be billed to your setting only once the trainee(s) are certified.


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