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Today, 1 in 150 individuals is diagnosed with autism, making it more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined. It occurs in all racial, ethnic, and social groups and is four times more likely to strike boys than girls. Though there is currently no single known cause or cure, autism is treatable. Children do not "outgrow" autism, but studies show that early diagnosis and intervention can lead to significantly improved outcomes. With the right services and supports, people with autism can live full, healthy and meaningful lives.
Innovative Learning is dedicated to offering training solutions to help meet the current challenge of aligning understanding, skills and competencies of those in a support role including family members, educators, practitioners, law enforcement, and the general public. This is done through a comprehensive course library that focuses on key topics and essential competencies using critical elements of effective best practice and educational models.
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Assisting with Medications for Support Staff This course has been designed for anyone who works with an individual who takes medications. The purpose of the course is to help staff understand the effects of medications and how they work in the body. It gives an overview of what people need to be aware of when assisting with the administration of medications and what to look out for. This course is a must for anybody who works with an individual who takes medications. Autism for Direct Support Staff Autism for Direct Support Staff has been designed to provide a comprehensive overview of Autism for those people who have little or no background of the topic. Modules include topics ranging from the overview of Autism itself to Professionalism and Philosophy. While the course title suggests it is only for support staff, we suggest staff at all levels of an organization would benefit from completing it, particularly supervisors and managers. Remember, "For supervisors to supervise and for managers to manage, they need to know what staff have learned" (Deming, 1974). Autism for Family Members Whether you are a parent a brother, aunt, uncle or grandparent, understanding autism and what it means for the person and their family assists with achieving the best outcome for all. "Autism for Families" is a short course designed to assist parents and other family members with understanding what autism is and how it affects their family member. While parents can become quite expert with regard to how autism affects their son or daughter, other members of the family can often be left out and sidelined. Everyone involved in the life of a person with autism has a role to play in supporting both the individual and the parents who are often isolated in their understanding and support of their child. By educating the whole family, individuals are more able to support each other and maximize the outcomes for all concerned. Training hours is approximately 5 hours. No classroom teacher or teacher aide can be expected to be an expert on autism. This course will help you understand some of what you see and some of the more recent information about autism. This will be especially useful to those who have not received autism specific training in their teacher education programs. This course will also provide guidance of positive behavioral supports aimed at helping children with autism develop in both the classroom and their wider community. Clients Rights and Informed Consent This course has been designed to inform you about the rights of clients. Human rights are the basic rights that people have in all aspects of their lives, and it is important for support staff to recognize and support these rights when working with their clients. Case studies are used throughout this course to emphasize behaviors that violate the client's rights, and inform you on how to effectively resolve any problems that you encounter. This course also contains information about informed consent, and will help you to understand some of the different needs that people have. Data Collection for Support Professionals Challenging behavior is the one thing that continues to consume our time, resources and emotion in the work we do. The more efficiently we support people to change their behavior, the more closely we achieve the outcomes we strive toward. Understanding whether our efforts to support behavior change are working, is the foundation of any effective behavior support plan. To know this, we need data! Data Collection for Support Professionals is a "quick course" of study in why we need to collect data and covers the fundamentals of how to do so. This includes graphing and how to ensure the data you collect is reliable. Dual Diagnosis - Developmental Disability and Mental Illness New Zealand Only Perhaps the most challenging clinical aspect of providing mental health care to people with developmental disabilities is the diagnostic assessment of psychiatric disorders. Although it has been reported that persons with developmental disabilities experience the full range of psychiatric disorders, at rates higher than the general population, many mental disorders, for various reasons, are misdiagnosed, under-diagnosed, or undiagnosed in this population. The degree of accuracy of diagnostic assessment with this population is critical to best practice as it provides the foundation for treatment and service planning. This course will explore Dual Diagnosis and possible treatment processes for people with dual diagnoses, and recommendations for providing Dual Diagnosis services. Emergency Preparedness and Response This course has been designed to give you and your colleagues an understanding of the emergencies that you need to be prepared for, including specific industry information for schools, hospitals, and other workplaces. Workplace safety during an emergency is very important, and well planned procedures and plans can mean the difference between life and death. The course covers Earthquakes, Floods, Hurricanes, and Tornadoes. Harassment in the Workplace It is important that harassment is not a problem in all workplaces. This course has been designed to inform you about what constitutes harassment, the different types of harassment, and the legislation that means harassment is illegal. This course is aimed at employees as well as employers. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (United States only) United States Only The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the US Congress in 1996 and became effective July 1st, 1997. The Act is a combination of regulations designed to reduce inefficiencies, fraud, and misuse of information in the health care industry and to protect the health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, get divorced, become pregnant, or move. This course focuses on the Privacy and Security Rules of the Act as they are more relevant to the direct support worker, who is the primary audience of this course. Healthcare Decisions for Support Staff This course has been designed to give you a basic understanding about the health care decision-making process. It covers information about supporting individuals to make their own decisions, issues of capacity, substitute decision makers, and during emergency situations. This course has been designed to instruct you on the process of incident reporting. Every incident - whether anything happens or it is just a near miss - needs to be reported on. This course will inform you on the basics of this process. Infection Transmission and Control This course has been designed to give new employees an introduction to Bloodborne Pathogens, Infection Control, and Universal Precautions. The topics are very important for all workers in the health care industry and demonstrate the importance of good practice in order to stop the spread of infectious diseases. Models for Behavior Support Planning This course will provide direct support staff, teachers and other professionals with a model that will increase options when dealing with challenging behavior. By understanding how we can work to change environments, support people to learn alternative ways of getting their needs met, increasing skill base and independence as well as directly influencing behavior with the use of behavioral technology, we can increase the likelihood of avoiding that crisis in the first place. That said; behavioral crises still happen however successful we are, so we also need to understand what to do in these situations. By the end of this course you will better understand how such approaches will assist you. Person Centered Planning (PCP) is a course designed to provide a firm understanding of the philosophy and process of thinking and planning in a person centered way. EVERYBODY should do this course. Whether you are a newly employed support person or a seasoned professional or manager, this course will allow you to truly understand what it means to provide support to someone in a "Person Centered" manner. Philosophy, Values and Advocacy is a "quick course" of study concerning the importance of these core underlying principles with relation to providing support services to people who have disabilities. Whether you work in the mental health, developmental disability, educational or general medical sectors, this course will be of value to direct support staff and professional staff alike. Positive Behavior Supports Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is fast becoming the support philosophy of choice and is being mandated around the world. PBS has been shown to be an effective means of changing behavior while maintaining, and indeed increasing, dignity, independence and people's involvement in their communities. This "quick course" is aimed at providing direct support staff and professionals alike with the fundamentals of what it is to provide support according to the principles of PBS to people who have challenging behavior. Professionalism is not just something for doctors, lawyers and other formally qualified people. Professionalism is something that EVERY person in ANY job should understand. This is especially the case for people working in Human Services. This "quick course" of study is for anyone working in the Human services sector at any level. Recognizing and Reporting Abuse This course is designed to instruct you on how to recognize abuse that may be taking place, and how to report what you see. It covers mandated reporters, types of abuse and neglect, and what you should do if you witness or experience some form of abuse. Building on the notion of "normalization" for people who are aging or have a disability, Social Role Valorization (SRV) can be seen as a tool for analyzing the process and effects of the societal devaluation of these groups and individuals. ALL members of the organization at ALL levelst they support. Supervision for Excellent Practice What is supervision? Who needs it? How does it happen and what should someone expect when having supervision. These are all questions that are addressed in this course designed for both the supervisor and supervisee. This course is aimed at anyone working with people and who wants to make sure they are working as effectively as they can by understanding how they can maximize the benefits of an effective supervision process. Supporting People with Challenging Behaviors This course has been designed to give you an increased awareness and understanding of challenging behaviors, and help you to understand some strategies to help prevent challenging behaviors from occurring while supporting people when they do. This course focuses on the key elements of effective best practice and educational models for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders. |
