For Professionals : Girls & autism

Full day course

This course is suitable for education professionals working with girls or women with social communication difficulties, on the pathway or with a diagnosis of autism.

Autistic girls often demonstrate less traditionally obvious traits of autism or may mask their difficulties, and are therefore often misdiagnosed or diagnosed later than boys are.

Course aims:

• To develop an understanding of how autism is diagnosed
• To increase understanding of how autism may present differently in women and girls
• To increase understanding of how this may appear in an education context
• To develop a practical toolkit that can be beneficial to autistic individuals at school and at home