Reflecting on Autism: Developing a Person-First Perspective

1. Understand and apply a ‘person first’ perspective  to analyse and problem solve issues and  challenges associated with autism. 

2. Critique own and others’ biases, prejudices and assumptions associated with autism. 

3. Demonstrate research and communication skills for post graduate level.

This  assessment is prescribed to advance  reflective  skills  based on the development of  knowledge about autism from the perspective of the lived experience. 

The assessment is about your own and others’ perspectives of autism through the lens of the lived experience. 

This  assessment  prepares  you  to  gain  a  deeper  insight  to  the  challenges and issues surrounding autism. 

This  assessment  requires  you  to reflect using a person  first  perspective to gain a deeper understanding of the lived experience for individuals with Autism and their carers. 

To  prepare  for  completing  this  assessment  you  are  required  to  reflect  by  drawing  upon  your  own current  understandings about  Autism  and  a  person  first  perspective.  Further,  you  are  required  to reflect on your own and others’ views about Autism.

1. Describe the current experience(s) you have had of autism in the community (if any), and how this experience has influenced your views. 

2. Based on your work in modules 1 & 2, where you have encountered a range of perspectives on autism including from those people who are living with Autism, consider how your own beliefs may have been extended, reinforced, or challenged as a result.

Evidence of unsatisfactory  achievement of one or more of the  learning objectives of the course,  insufficient understanding of the course content and/or unsatisfactory  level of skill development.