Spectrum Gaming Autism Acceptance Training
Spectrum Gaming has a huge focus on advocacy - ensuring autistic young people's voices are heard, and one way we are aiming to do this is by offering in depth autism training, focused on the lived experience of autistic young people.
This series of 6 webinars has been coproduced with autistic young people, and delivered by autistic adults, or young people themselves, with the focus on helping professionals, parents/ carers and more improve their understanding of autism.
It is focused on some key areas that are often misunderstood and aims to bring together both theory, and authentic lived experience of autistic young people who are often unheard.
Purchasing gives you access to the recordings of our 6 training modules, the slides, and our huge bundle of collated resources.
Access to all training is limited to 6 months, as this enables us to change and refresh our content as our understanding evolves and develops.
Who are your trainers?
The training is led by Andy Smith. He became the Creative Director of Spectrum Gaming in July 2021, after running Spectrum Gaming on a voluntary basis for 14 months.
Andy is a 27 year old autistic adult, and before Spectrum Gaming worked for 2 years as the advocate for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities at Bury Council, in addition to co-chairing the North West SEND Young people’s Co Production Steering Group and the Greater Manchester Selective Mutism Network.
In 2017 he set up ‘Autistic Life’, a Facebook Page which shared educational content about autism and now has over 33,000 followers. In 2018 Andy worked as an associate consultant at Pathways Associates to implement the UK’s biggest consultation on the priorities of autistic young people, which over 2,900 young people contributed to. Andy represents the views of SEND young people in a variety of area Greater Manchester SEND Board, the Greater Manchester Autism Consortium and more.
Session 2 of the training is delivered by 5 autistic young people, who are also members of the Spectrum Gaming community.
