Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Autistic Pupils

Anna Bateman
Mental health expert and former DfE adviser

Webinar

1h 8m

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This webinar will provide you with first-hand experience of how to support autistic pupils and overcome some of the common challenges schools and colleges may face.
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This webinar will provide head teachers, leaders, mental health leads, SENCOs and teachers with first-hand experience of how to support autistic pupils and overcome some of the common challenges schools and colleges may face.

In this webinar, mental health and wellbeing expert Anna Bateman, discusses the complexities of autism in an educational setting and provides practical advice using real-life examples on how schools and colleges can support autistic pupils.

Outcome 1:

Understand the broader context and data around mental health for children and young people with autism

Outcome 2:

Identify some of the most common challenges that schools and colleges face in engaging autistic young people and overcoming these barriers

Outcome 3:

Recognise how to support students who are autistic, including creating a whole school culture and the importance of using the correct language and strong communication

Outcome 4:

Learn from best practice models delivered first-hand by staff and how they have implemented successful strategies

Outcome 5:

Recognise further tools and resources which can help to support your provision around mental health and autism

Anna Bateman

With more than 24 years’ experience in education as a teacher, trainer, consultant and Interim Executive Board member, Anna Bateman has gained a fantastic understanding of pedagogy, school improvement, leadership and what works.

She is passionate about placing prevention at the heart of every school, integrating mental wellbeing within the curriculum, school culture and systems. Through this work, students have the opportunity to learn skills and techniques to cope with modern day pressures alongside their academic studies.

Over the last 10 years Anna has worked with and transformed hundreds of primary and secondary schools. She has excellent subject knowledge and a solid understanding of how schools work. This puts her in a unique position to be able to offer highly innovative and bespoke programmes to resolve specific and complex issues.

As a previous member of the advisory group for the Department of Education, advising them on their mental health green paper, Anna has operated at the forefront of new initiatives and her passion is to drive these forward to the benefit of schools, school leaders and of course pupils and students.

Moreover, she is an accredited facilitator for the Academic Resilience Approach (Young Minds), Youth Mental Health First Aid Trained as well as a licensed PATHS trainer promoting alternative thinking strategies.

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