CHCEDS056 - Provide support to students with autism spectrum disorder

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• undertake each of the following on at least one occasion for at least one student with autism spectrum disorder (ASD):
• contribute to planning of support
• provide support
• prepare two learning resources for use with students with ASD.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• organisational policies and procedures for working with students with ASD
• ASD and its effects on development and learning
• different roles of people supporting students with ASD and the required collaboration between them:
• education support worker
• teachers
• other professionals
• legal and ethical requirements:
• anti-discrimination and inclusion
• disability
• child safety
• confidentiality
• principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• historical context for ASD and current perspectives on:
• causes
• diagnosis
• treatments and therapies
• types of learning resources used with people with ASD and their key features:
• modified materials
• technology
• ways to support teaching strategies:
• contributing observations
• ensuring understanding
• following teacher example
• communication techniques for engaging students with ASD in the education context
• positive behaviour support techniques for students with ASD.