BeginningWithA Reviews

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.

I think the only thing that was 'missing' as it was an online course was the opportunity to practice administering the ADOS. I imagine had it been in person delegates would have been in pairs or groups to take it in turn to actually administer the ADOS. The only other comment is that at the beginning of Day 1 the trainers asked people to keep their cameras on, but some people never put theirs on, and as the course progressed more people had them off. I mostly kept mine on, and only turned it off if I needed to concentrate. But I then felt a bit 'exposed' as was aware that people could see me and I could not see them. I was tempted to keep mine off due to this and wonder if more people turned theirs off as the course progressed as others had? So, it might have been beneficial for the trainers to remind people of the etiquette of keeping their cameras on both for the benefit of the trainers to see people, and for the delegates.

I'm very pleased to have taken this course, I enjoyed it, and I expect it will be very helpful in my future work. Many thanks.

Really enjoyable course with lots of helpful resources and exercises provided. The trainer was very knowledgeable yet approachable and pitched things at a level for all, thank you!

Brilliant course, really well organised. Our learning was very well supported via guidance offered on how to access resources, alongside the tasks that were set to develop our skill in administering the ADOS/ADI-R.

The course felt well organised and well laid out. I thought the facilitator was engaging and highly skilled at managing the zoom format.

Very helpful course in terms of getting a taster for ADOS and ADI administration. However, it feels like this is the beginning of a process of learning, with further practice and supervision needed.

Excellent run course, excellent teacher and the IT support / systems were excellent in terms of easy to use and very responsive.