Event information
Online Webinar
Practical Strategies for Success
The Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET) and the Australian Tertiary Education Network on Disability (ATEND) are pleased to bring you this webinar – it will be live captioned and there is no cost to participate.
Students on the autism spectrum are a “burgeoning population” (Wenzel and Rowley) who may find aspects of the hidden curriculum to be particularly challenging. Kimberley McMahon-Coleman and Kim Draisma have extensive experience working with university students on the spectrum, and recently published a book that provides tertiary educators and support staff with practical strategies for addressing challenges associated with ASD as they manifest in college and university environments. In this webinar, Kimberley McMahon-Coleman will draw from their findings to offer insight on how to use person-centred approaches to assist students with:
– Interpreting assignment tasks
– understanding unwritten expectations and codes of conduct
– working around rigidity of thinking
– project planning
– self-monitoring
– multi-tasking.
Audience
The webinar will be suitable for disability advisors, academic learning and literacy practitioners, and faculty teaching staff seeking a better understanding of the challenges of autism in the university classroom, and how to provide a person-centred approach to addressing them. This would also be relevant for VET teaching and support staff.
Presenter
Dr Kimberley McMahon-Coleman teaches in Learning Development at the University of Wollongong. She has a particular interest in developing the academic capacity of students with disabilities. With Dr Kim Draisma she has written Teaching University Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Guide to Developing Academic Capacity and Proficiency (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia, 2016). See more of Kimberley’s work on her websites: Autism Spectrum Disorder in Higher Education, and Shapeshifters in Popular Culture.
