Child Care and Autism Awareness (Level 3) Bundle - A Home Study Distance Learning Course

COURSE OVERVIEW

A distance learning course is the ideal way to gain a qualification in Child Care and Autism Awareness. Whether you're looking to go on to further education, improve your job prospects or expand your knowledge, distance learning Child Care and Autism Awareness is a flexible and convenient course, which allows you to comprehensively prepare for an exam or career through home study. What's more, because the distance learning Child Care and Autism Awareness course is a fully comprehensive course, no prior knowledge is required.

This course has been designed to enable you to strengthen and develop your knowledge and understanding of home-based childcare practice. Course topics covered within the Child Care Diploma course include: The introduction to childcare practice, childcare and child development (0-16), the childcare practitioner and planning to meet children's individual needs.

The Child Care Diploma course will help you to improve your knowledge and skills, meet the requirements for basic training as part of childminder registration or application to be a registered childminder and undertake professional development.

Autism is a diverse and mystifying condition that has been the focus of much scientific research over the last few decades. The Autism Awareness course aims to develop your understanding of autism and gives practical suggestions when working with autistic individuals. Today, autism refers to a whole range of social, language and communication problems. Severity ranges from hardly there at all, often undiagnosed and even unrecognised, to severe, where it is virtually impossible for people to participate in society.

There are no boundaries between the conditions Kanner and Asperger identified, often people are in-between, whether in between Asperger’s syndrome and Kanner’s, or in between “normal” and Asperger’s syndrome. Therefore, collectively we refer to “autistic spectrum disorder”, or ASD, as this allows for the differences in both symptoms and severity. A person without ASD is called a neuro-typical.

This course will enable you to become familiar with various approaches to autism, have increased awareness of how to obtain a diagnosis and enable you to understand genetic environmental causes of autism. The Autism Awareness course will also explain how research in other conditions can help research into autism.

Course Key Topics

The Child Care & Autism Awareness course is divided into following comprehensive modules.

Child Care

Module 1: The key features of child development and developmental needs of children 0-8 years inclusive of individual and special needs
Module 2: Providing for children’s physical needs inclusive of health and safety
Module 3: Learning through play for child development
Module 4: Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children
Module 5: Legal responsibilities of the childminder and responsibilities for working together

Autism Awareness

Module 1: What is Autism?
Module 2: Legislation and Autism
Module 3: Triad of Impairments
Module 4: Explaining Autistic behaviours
Module 5: Causes of Autism
Module 6: Diagnosing Autism
Module 7: Approaches to Autism
Module 8: Practical Suggestions when Working with Autistic Individuals
Module 9: Explaining the Myths

Home Study Tutor Support

You will be provided with comprehensive materials designed to provide you with everything required to complete your Child Care & Autism Awareness course. You will have your own personal tutor helping you with your course work and with any questions you may have. Plus you can contact our Student Advisors by email or phone for all the practical advice you may need – so we really are with you 100%.

What's more, you'll have access to the online student portal, where you can interact with other students, browse our resource library and manage your account.

Course Assessments

The Child Care & Autism Awareness courseis marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor following NCFE guidelines. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.

We send the full course out, you then read through the course in your own time and complete the assignments which you send to your tutor for marking. There is no word count for these assignments. However, one sentence answers will be rejected and you will have to re-submit it for marking.

Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by the national awarding organisation NCFE, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the programme.

Course Duration

We recommend you spend approximately 360 hours of your time studying for the Child Care & Autism Awareness course. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 7 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 14 hours a week you could complete it in six months.

Get started today, and you can earn your Award in Child Care & Autism Awareness in as little as six months, or take up to a year, if you prefer – the choice is yours.