Description
This presentation celebrates the unique presentation of autistic girls and women. The presentation will equip the participant to:
- Understand why autistic girls and women are under diagnosed
- Recognise camouflaging and compensation coping mechanisms
- Recognise the ways the profile of abilities for autistic girls may be different to boys at different stages of development
- Appreciate the different pathways to diagnosis in autistic adolescent girls and women
- Utilise two new screening tools (QAS-C) designed to identify the characteristics of autism in children, adolescents and in women
- Understand issues regarding self-identity and low self-esteem for autistic girls and women
- Strategies to enhance the concept of self
- Learn activities in a group programme (Being Me) developed for autistic teenage girls
- Recognition of the effects of alexithymia and empathic attunement on the ability to experience and express emotions
- Strategies to recognise and regulate emotions
- The value of Energy Accounting to reduce the depth and duration of depression
- Understanding how Polyvagal theory can facilitate emotion management
- Learn strategies to develop friendship skills in childhood and adolescence
- Choose resources to improve social reasoning abilities
- Understand issues regarding adult relationships especially vulnerability, sexuality and being a mother
- Learn best ways for seeking and maintaining employment
See trailer below for more information on content for the day. (Please note that the topics for the live webcast and the online pre-recorded course are the same.)
About the speakers
Prof Tony Attwood PhD With a career spanning five decades, Professor Tony Attwood is considered to be one of the world’s foremost experts on Autism Spectrum Disorder. He currently works in his own private practice and is also an adjunct professor at Griffith University, Queensland and the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His book Asperger’s Syndrome – A Guide for Parents and Professionals has sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into 27 languages. His subsequent book, The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome, published in October 2006, has sold over 300,000 copies and has been translated into 18 languages, and is one of the primary textbooks on Asperger’s syndrome, otherwise known as Autism Spectrum Disorder – Level 1. Tony has been a sole and joint author for a further 14 subsequent books published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Future Horizons Inc. and Guilford Press. He has also contributed to 38 research papers and 22 book chapters.
Dr Michelle Garnett PhD Dr Michelle Garnett is a clinical psychologist who has specialised in autism for three decades. Her peer-reviewed research has informed understanding of early detection, the female profile and the importance of good mental health for autistic individuals. She has co-authored seven highly regarded books on autism, six with Prof Tony Attwood. Her most recent book, Autism Working: A Seven-Stage Plan to Thriving at Work lays out a practical plan for autistic adolescents and adults to thrive at work, including how to onboard an autistic employee. Her 2019 book with Barb Cook is a seminal work on the female presentation, Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism. She co-wrote Having Fun with Feelings on the Autism Spectrum and Ten Steps to Reducing Your Child’s Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum to provide guidance to parents of young autistic children. She runs a private practice in Brisbane, Australia, and regularly provides training in autism nationally and internationally.
