Our Professional Short Course on Reframing Autistic Behaviour is a practical and rewarding course that explores common Autistic behaviours (including meltdowns, shutdowns, and burnout) and their underlying root causes. It will increase your understanding of your Autistic clients and students while providing you with the skills to enhance their flourishing across the lifespan through respectful support that fosters resilience, autonomy, and authenticity.

During the Professional Short Course, you will have access both to academic research, as well as to Autistic lived expertise, which is considered as equally – if not more – valuable as peer-reviewed academic literature.

Who is this course for?

Our Professional Short Course (previously known as Emotions & Behaviour) is suited for any professional looking for deeper knowledge of the complex relationships between Autistic internal experiences, dysregulation, and behaviours.  

Our most popular professional offering to date has equipped professionals from a range of fields with vital skills and understanding, including:

• Medical and Health
• Psychology
• Allied Health
• Education
• Disability Support
• And more.

What can I gain from this course?

Participants who complete this short course will:

• Develop a deep understanding of the connection between dysregulation and behaviours in Autistic individuals
• Learn how to best support Autistic clients or students with empathy and compassion during emotional dysregulation and overwhelm
• Challenge and reassess the concept of pathologised Autistic behaviour, promoting a more respectful approach
• Discover best practices endorsed by the Autistic community and supported by innovative research, to help Autistic individuals with varying support and communication needs in ways that actively enhance their wellbeing
  

What makes this course unique?

Unlike other courses offered on Autism, Reframing Autism’s Professional Short Course on Reframing Autistic Behaviour is developed, designed, and presented by an all-Autistic team. It is not only information-rich, but actively centres Autistic experience as meaningful, and approaches Autism from a perspective of building broad and genuine wellbeing for every Autistic individual and the Autistic community.  

Enrol today to start making a genuine difference in the lives of the Autistic individuals you support.

Delivery and structure: 

All materials and lectures are online, pre-recorded, and available on-demand. 

The course content will be available in read-only form once the coursework is completed.

Workload:

6 hours (plus 2 hours for the self-study pre-requisite Autism Essentials + Professional Development Certificate course).

A certificate of completion for 6 hours will be issued at the end of the short course if all mandatory elements are completed. These elements include reviewing the materials and completing the multiple-choice quizzes.

Reframing Autism's values

There are some key ideologies upon which all of Reframing Autism’s work is based, and which will run throughout the course. These include: 

• Always presume competence. 
• All human beings, regardless of intersectionality, or support or communication needs, deserve acceptance, authenticity, and autonomy. 
• Just as Dr Ross Greene says, “kids do well when they can”, so too all Autistic individuals do well when they can. 
• Inclusion is a human right and comes when you belong and are welcomed as your authentic, intact Autistic self. 
• All Autistic individuals, regardless of intersectionality, or support or communication needs, are full and whole humans as they are, with the right to demand equity and to have their dignity respected. 
• Autism is not a disorder and Autistic people are not “less than”. 

Reframing Autism’s core values include to respect, accept, embrace and empower through gentle influence. Reframing Autism has a commitment to respecting diversity across intersectional and marginalised minorities and to providing as much of a safe space as possible for everyone. 

Self-selection criteria

This course presents information and perspectives that Reframing Autism believes are in the best interest of the Autistic community and its ongoing collective and individual wellbeing. Of course, we understand that not everyone shares our values and perspectives. The following information summarises the ideological underpinnings for our course. If you feel that there exists a significant “values mismatch” between your perspectives and ours, we encourage you to consider your openness to learning – and to having your thinking challenged – before registering.

For this Professional Short Course to be effective, each participant should be ready to be challenged. To get the most out of your learning requires a commitment to curiosity and a willingness to be open to new information or different perspectives.  

We may present information that is different to the way you have always thought about or done things. There may be some moments of uncomfortable self-reflection based on new information or new perspectives. You may disagree with some of these perspectives. We ask that you express your disagreement respectfully, and we undertake that same commitment to you.