SKILLS Motor Skills CPD & Parent Course 
Effective Methods to Teach Motor Skills to SEN Learners 0-22 years of age

Motor skills are one specific domain for which deficits and delays are common in ASD. These fine motor skills refer to one's ability to make fine hand movements that often require sophisticated object manipulation and appear more vulnerable to delay in ASD relative to general gross motor behaviours such as walking. 
Autism affects the development of motor skills in infants and toddlers, and the more severe their disorder, the slower their progress in being able to do things such as grasp objects and move around. 
Development of fine motor skills is associated with expressive language outcomes. To develop fine motor skills, we need to start with development of gross motor skills. 
This online course How to Teach Motor Skills to Learners with ASD and Related Disorders is aimed at learning how to teach motor skills in the right order to address gross, fine and oral motor skills with the use of evidence-based practices.

View Motor Skills Curriculum to see what examples we are going to work on during this CPD course.

Title: Using selected best evidence-based practices to teach Motor Skills to ASD Learners
Complex solutions to apply in every day life and work with ASD Learners to teach Motor Skills to children and teens aged 0-18 years old.
If:

• you want to find out how a SEN teacher, a mainstream teacher, a special needs assistant, a therapist or a parent can effectively support an ASD learner in acquiring foundational and more advanced skills to help them get ready for pre-school or primary, post-primary or special school
• you want to implement the most effective selected techniques that are both attractive and motivating for your ASD learner to encourage them to collaborate with you, while learning not only school readiness skills, but also the important skills in other inter-related areas, such as: motor skills, receptive and expressive language, social emotional skills and play and leisure skills
• you consider it important to diversify the long-term therapeutic and educational processes and use comprehensive methods to target multiple areas with your child or pupils/clients
• you want to get confidence in how to effectively and correctly modify the activities, techniques and goals by gradual implementation of various elements of evidence-based practices in your work or life with an ASD learner
• you always do your best to adjust the activities and a level of difficulty, based on your learner's unique learning profiles and their individualised needs.

If one or more of those statements applies to you, take part in this meaningful and practical certified online training, during which you will learn how to smoothly implement best solutions that are easy to implement in the classroom, in the clinic and at home.This online training on How To Teach Motor Skills Effectively is divided into 2 forty-minute blocks to allow for the most effective use of the training time while having your questions answered by a an expert SEN teacher who is an ASD therapist, an ASD education & behaviour consultant and a mother of an ASD child. This training is for you if you want to get important knowledge on how to shape your practical teaching skills. Additional questions you may have can be addressed via email, a live chat during the course or during your 1-1 online consultations.

You will find out about:

• Prerequisites to develop motor skills - gross, oral and fine motor skills
• How to skilfully select therapeutic and teaching methods and what are they that will best help in work on school readiness skills
• How to expand the learner's skills onto a few other related areas while still focusing on school readiness skills
• How to skilfully apply teaching techniques and select activities to allow for the generalisation of skills
• How to select IEP goals and measure progress
• How to troubleshoot and effectively search workable solutions during your activities with your learner.

Detailed course programme:

• challenging behaviours and their functions 
• motivational strategies in the classroom and in 1-1 work
• individualised motivational contracts with pupils
• significance of ongoing attention and approval provided to a pupil throughout the day 
• the significance of proactive activities.

A practical part of each SKILLS course will relate to creating behavioural contracts, motivational systems and proactive activities that are important to effectively teach specific SKILLS in your selected course/s. 
We will find out how to easier teach specific skills if we have the right system in place in our classroom or at home.

Part 1

• The impact of a neurodevelopmental delay on the development of sensory motor functions, cognition, social emotional learning, language and social communication - why the early childhood stimulation of those areas is crucial in setting up any ASD learner for the best possible success in the school years and in adulthood
• Common deficits in ASD and related neurodevelopmental disorders and how to effectively target those deficits
• Warning signs in the dysfunction of neurological processes that lead to insufficient school readiness that impacts all other areas of development
• How to skilfully select some of the evidence-based practices to address motor skills and match them to your learner's unique profile.

Part 2

• Stimulation of motor skills development based on implementing selected core and main activities and matching IEP goals and procedures to address the development of those skills
• Examples of IEP goals and selection of best educational and therapeutic strategies to stimulate motor skills in a hierarchical sequence
• Useful activities and suggested materials as supportive components of any quality motor skills lesson / session at home, in school or in the clinic
• Troubleshooting and examples of how to best resolve problems that may arise during a session / lesson
• Collaboration between family home and school / clinic - how to better carry out joint intervention activities to enhance generalisation of skills in a naturalistic setting and in the community
• Selected ready lesson plans from the list below to teach the following skills:

Area: Core
1 Imitating Gross Motor Movements-Younger
2 Imitating Gross Motor Movements-Older
3 Imitating Actions with Objects-Younger
4 Imitating Actions with Objects - Older

Area: Fine Motor
5 Opening Containers
6 Practicing Snapping and Unsnapping
7 Tracing Lines, Shapes & Letters
8 Tracing Name
9 Tracing Numbers
10 Pasting with Glue
11 Cutting Lines with Scissors
12 Cutting Shapes
13 Finger Painting
14 Colouring a Picture
15 Colouring within the Lines
16 Imitating Written Models
17 Printing Name
18 Printing Numbers
19 Writing within a Boundary
20 Writing Letters in Cursive
Area: Oral Motor
21 Completing Blowing Responses

Area: Gross Motor
22 Throwing a Ball
23 Catching a Ball
24 Playing Catch
25 Kicking a Ball
26 Motor Imitation with Equipment
27 Doing Jumping Jacks
28 Doing Sit Ups
29 Following an Exercise Video