Training for Professionals and Businesses

Autism Berkshire offers bespoke training workshops for professionals who support autistic children, young people and adults, and organisations that want their staff to understand more about autism.

The workshops aim to give participants an understanding of what autism is and how it can affect autistic people’s social and communication skills, sensory processing and behaviour.

Sessions share strategies to help professionals support autistic people and address issues including food refusal and sleep difficulties.

Courses can be delivered at a workplace, another venue, or online.

Our training teams include autistic adults and parents of autistic children and young people.

We can also provide advice about how to make venues and events autism-friendly.

For more information, to discuss your requirements and what a workshop may cost, email contact@autismberkshire.org.uk or call 01189 594 594 (option 1).

Among organisations that have benefited from visits by our trainers are Reading Buses, Thames Valley Police and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough.

Staff at Reading Museum and the Museum of English Rural Life (part of the University of Reading) have attended tailored training workshops to help them deliver autism-friendly relaxed opening sessions.

Among their comments afterwards were:

“Extremely helpful information, not just for interactions in the workplace but all aspects of life. Thank you for your time and expertise.”

“Very friendly staff, good introduction and directly relevant to all aspects of museums.”

“It was very useful to have presenters who had personal experience of the difficulties that autistic people experience, rather than a purely ‘academic’ presenter.”

“Really helped me to understand the needs of autistic people.”

After a twilight training session at a Berkshire school, the deputy headteacher said: “Thanks so much for yesterday’s session. When I walked around school afterwards, there was a lot of discussion going on. Lots of teachers really thinking about the children in their class!”