BeginningWithA Reviews

Great course with bonus insights from a highly experienced tutor.

A really helpful insight into administering the 2 diagnostic tests. It reassured me that professionals will all have different opinions and interpretations but the end goal - determining whether someone is showing evidence of an autistic condition - is usually agreed.

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.

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.

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.

Informative and experiential workshop to help build confidence in using these measures