Treating Children with Autism New Skills

This webinar is aimed at educating parents, caregivers, and therapists involved in teaching children in general, and those with ASD in particular. It provides a solid grounding in Learning Theory and is littered with videos of therapists demonstrating specific techniques to teach children with Autism new skills. The techniques discussed and demonstrated can be used with any child. I

Children with Autism need extra assistance to learn. This webinar will teach you how to successfully teach new skills to children who may not naturally acquire new skills from their immediate environment.  Extensive information is provided to maximise learning in children with Autism.  You are taught how to break skills down to meet the individual needs of the child you are teaching.  Ways to assist and motivate your child to learn initial skills are discussed in detail. Video footage is presented to further explain the content provided.

'All children with Autism can learn, they just need help to do so'

Workshop outline

• Understanding Autism
• Learning theory: how do we all typically learn
• Understanding how children with Autism learn
• Motivation and Engagement
• Developmental learning areas: identifying what to teach
• Task Analysis: breaking down skills to meet the needs of the child
• How to teach to new skills: ways to assist
• Fading assistance to allow the child to be independent
• Mastering skills and tracking skill achievement

Developed and recorded by Dr Jacques Duff and Helen Salter
Duration 2 hours 36 minutes

Completion of this course does not confer professional registration or qualification. Participants who are not registered health practitioners should not use these techniques in a clinical or therapeutic capacity without supervision by a registered professional

Reviewed on: 28/02/2026 by: Bernard Ferriere - Clinical Psychologist; BA; Grad Dip Applied Psychology; Dip Clinical Hypnosis.
MAPS: Member, Australian Psychological Society
MASH: Member, Australian Society of Hypnosis
FCCP: Fellow of the College of Counselling Psychologists (UK)