BeginningWithA Reviews

Great course - very thorough.

Great course overall, zoom being zoom made it hard at times to be as focussed as I would be in real life, but on the other hand obviously made it super flexible

It is a great training program.

This course has fulfilled all my expectations and more. I did my original ADOS training with Fiona Scott from the Cambridge Autism team, live training across Hertfordshire paediatricians, SALTs and me as consultant clinical psychologist as we ran joint assessment clinics and therapy/ follow-ups. I needed to update and refresh this training, along with the ADI. My experience with Fiona's training meant I was particularly drawn to the Cambridge teams expertise and superb delivery. The offer of an online Combo training course was a significant additional attraction with busy working schedules and Covid-19 vulnerabilities. It also meant that we had candidates across the country in a range of sectors/services which was brilliant. I would also like to say a huge thank you to them both for their kindness, compassion, and humanity as well as their amazing clinical and organizational expertise. I was especially grateful to them for discretely extending the video availability and for staying on to cover the toddler module at the end of a very long week of teaching. Thank you too Garry and Carol for your excellent organization. The whole experience made learning a pleasure. I will be glad to keep in touch.

I really enjoyed this training and felt that it worked effectively via Zoom. Carol was a really engaging and knowledgeable trainer and the Moodle functions were a great addition in consolidating my learning from the course. I came to the training knowing very little about both the ADOS-2 and the ADI-R and now feel that I know a great deal more - I am very thankful for that. A big thank you to Carol and Garry and a special mention to all of the clients in the videos who gave their consent to being part of this course.

Was a bit overwhelming at first, just for the sheer intensity and amount of information that was needed to do both the ADOS and ADI-R - but Carol was really reassuring and containing and made the experience an helpful learning one.

Many thanks to Carol and Garry, the convenience of remote learning took a lot of stress away for me, although the course was online, it was still very interactive with plenty of opportunity to ask questions or add to any discussion that was taking place.

Really excellent course. Carol is a great trainer and I feel confident to administer both assessments. Great back and forth discussions to answer questions and Carol made it really easy to understand and very person centred. Thank you.

I wholeheartedly recommend this course. I feel really confident that I can start to build up my repertoire of skills in this area.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and I feel far more confident now in working with service users who may be on the autism spectrum. The videos and the discussions post scoring proved valuable. I believe everyone who attended the course will have taken a lot from it. Carol has been an excellent trainer. Thank you.