Residential Special Schools and Colleges Training for Experts by Experience

About this training

Experts by Experience (EbEs) are those with relevant lived experience or a close family member of someone with relevant lived experience. This training will educate attendees on the National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP) course content which they will then co-deliver alongside a qualified NATP trainer in a residential special schools and colleges setting.

Please note that specialist or high-level skills are not required to attend the course.

Aims of this training

• To successfully train as an EbE to co-deliver the NATP course in a residential special schools and colleges setting alongside an NATP trainer.

• To communicate the barriers experienced by autistic people in a residential special schools and colleges environment.

• To discuss examples of existing good practice and innovative approaches of working with diagnosed and/or undiagnosed autistic people, rather than on or for them.

• To practise how to facilitate delivery of slides and animations in settings with a NATP qualified co-trainer.

Who is this training for?

To attend the residential special schools and colleges EbE training, attendees must fulfil the following eligibility criteria:

• Be autistic, or have a sibling or child who is autistic.

• Have experience of a co-occurring mental health condition, for example depression, anxiety or psychosis; or have an autistic sibling or child with a co-occurring mental health condition.

• Have relevant lived experience, either yourself or with your autistic sibling or child, in the setting type you would like to deliver training in, for example experience as an inpatient for the inpatient care streams.

• Have an existing relationship as a lived experience expert with an NHS service, residential special school or college, or children and young people health and justice service that you plan to deliver training in.

• Not be a clinician or professional in the service you wish to deliver training in.