Scottish Autism

Day

Wednesday 15 June

Time slot

14:00-15:00

This event took place almost 2 years ago

Room

Boisdale 1
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Kerry-Ann MacDonald
01259 720 044

Topics

Evaluation & impact Health & social care Learning & development

Overall aim

• How practitioner knowledge and experience together with a ground up approach to continuous improvement, long term, sustainable development in practice can be achieved.

• The seven statements that set out our ethics that guide and inform our contemporary understanding of autism.

• To explore this approach and how it can contribute to sustainable changes in practice, resulting in improved services for autistic people and their families.

Description

Utilising practitioner knowledge/experience together with a ground up approach to continuous improvement, long term, sustainable development in practice can be achieved.

The Autism Practice Improvement Frameworks combines practitioner experience with established improvement methodology. Underpinned by seven statements that set out ethics that guide/inform our contemporary understanding of autism and our approach to supporting individuals in our services.

We’ll explore this approach and how it can contribute to sustainable changes in practice, resulting in improved services.

This session is open to all who work in the sector.

Who was the event aimed at?

Directors

Who spoke at this event?

Charlene Tait, Deputy CEO has worked in the field of autism for over thirty years. In that time she has been engaged in direct practice and service development. She was Lecturer and Course Director in Postgraduate Autism studies at the University of Strathclyde and has been involved in a number of national strategic initiatives.

Her main areas of interest are in family support and enabling quality of life and quality lifestyles for people across the autism spectrum.

Joanna Panese has 12 years’ experience in the third sector through direct practice, service development and management roles. Joanna has worked alongside autistic people in supported living and day services, and has managed services that provide vocational and skills development opportunities.

Joanna leads on the development of practice both internally and externally providing practice and service development support across Scottish Autism, and partner organisations.