Autism Awareness 101 Video Series

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The Autism Awareness Video Series is a resource for students and adults. This video series is an
interactive, user-friendly, online environment that offers an informative description of autism, including
common characteristics of autism, identification of social interaction difficulties, dealing with difficult
situations, how individuals with autism communicate, and tips on supporting individuals with autism.

Benefits

Target Audience

What you'll learn

The Autism Awareness Video Series is composed of seven mini-videos ranging from three minutes to six minutes each.

Click on each module below to see a short snippet of the course.

Autism 101

Intro To Autism

Objectives

After completing Video 1 – Introduction to Autism:

-Participants will learn the characteristics of autism to help them recognize what autism is and what autism is not.

Duration: 6:15

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Autism 101

Communication

Objectives

After completing Video 2 – Communication Challenges, participants will be able to:

-Identify the difference between receptive and expressive communication

-Recognize common communication difficulties for persons with autism spectrum disorder

Duration: 4:37

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Autism 101

Common Characteristics: Social Interactions

Objectives

After completing Video 3 – Common Characteristics: Social Interactions, participants will be able to:

-Identify common social interaction difficulties that people with autism often struggle with in social situations

-Recognize how social difficulties impact their relationships with others in the community

Duration: 6:06

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Autism 101

Common Characteristics: Sensory Processing

Objectives

After completing Video 4 – Common Characteristics: Sensory Processing, participants will be able to:

-Identify common sensory processing difficulties that people with autism struggle with as part of their daily lives

-Recognize how sensory difficulties impact their behavior and interactions with others

Duration: 5:00

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Autism 101

Common Characteristics: Restricted, Strong Interests

Objectives

After completing Video 5 – Common Characteristics: Restricted & Strong Interests, participants will be able to:
-Identify how people with autism may present themselves when they act in restricted ways or show strong interests in certain area of their lives
-Recognize how to re-direct people with autism to help them to move through restricted or strong behaviors
-Recognize the similarities and differences between “normal” interests in things that people enjoy and restricted and or strong interests that people with autism may exhibit in social situations
Duration: 3:30

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Autism 101

Part 1: Tips to support persons with Autism and Create an “Autism – Friendly” Environment

Objectives

After completing Videos 6, 7, & 8 – Tips and Strategies to support persons with Autism and Create an “Autism-Friendly” Environment, participants will be able to:

-Recall and apply general strategies to support individuals with autism

-Identify ways to adapt the environment to avoid potential sensory triggers and enhance the experiences for persons with autism in the social situations

-Create an autism-friendly environment using the tips and strategies learned in the “Autism Awareness 101 Video Series”

Duration: 6:04

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Autism 101

Part 2: Tips to support persons with Autism and Create an “Autism – Friendly” Environment

Objectives

After completing Videos 6, 7, & 8 – Tips and Strategies to support persons with Autism and Create an “Autism-Friendly” Environment, participants will be able to:
-Recall and apply general strategies to support individuals with autism
-Identify ways to adapt the environment to avoid potential sensory triggers and enhance the experiences for persons with autism in the social situations
-Create an autism-friendly environment using the tips and strategies learned in the “Autism Awareness 101 Video Series”
Duration: 4:22

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Autism 101

Part 3: Tips to support persons with Autism and Create an “Autism – Friendly” Environment

Objectives

After completing Videos 6, 7, & 8 – Tips and Strategies to support persons with Autism and Create an “Autism-Friendly” Environment, participants will be able to:
-Recall and apply general strategies to support individuals with autism
-Identify ways to adapt the environment to avoid potential sensory triggers and enhance the experiences for persons with autism in the social situations
-Create an autism-friendly environment using the tips and strategies learned in the “Autism Awareness 101 Video Series”
Duration: 4:22

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Benefits

Evidence-Based Content

This video series is designed to engage all audience levels. The informal approach cleverly provides a learning experience derived from evidence-based and real-world information on autism. The Autism Awareness Video Series is grounded in facts which dispel and prevent misinformation about autism. It can help adults and students gain empathy for individuals with autism, avoid and reduce bullying, and teach the audience how to interact with and relate to individuals on the autism spectrum.

Flexible

The video series is flexible. The videos can be viewed incrementally…at work, at home or even out and about, on any type of device from a cell phone to a desktop computer.

Professional Development

The Autism Awareness Video Series can be used as Professional Development, in social/emotional focused classes to inform students, and to provide administrators and public officials with an overview of autism that enables more effective communication with parents.

Students

Help students to understand and gain empathy for classmates. Learn why students with autism act as they do, react as they do, and gain tips and strategies of how to interact in social situations.

Teachers

Teachers will learn critical information about what autism is and what it is not. Teachers will also gain tips and strategies to help their students to interact with students who may be on the autism spectrum in learning and social situations.

General Staff

Administrators will learn critical information what autism is and what it is not, and gain tips and strategies to interact with individuals on the autism spectrum successfully.

Administrators

Learn critical information about what autism is and what it is not, and gain tips and strategies to interact with individuals on the autism spectrum successfully.

Public Officials

Learn critical information about what autism is and what it is not, and gain tips and strategies to interact with individuals on the autism spectrum successfully.

Everyone

Learn critical information about what autism is and what it is not, and gain tips and strategies to interact with individuals on the autism spectrum successfully.