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11/05/10

tpm collaborate on ASD awareness for employers

tpm Director Brian Quinn, and hairdressing employer Sandra Brown from Hairtek, offered ‘Employer Perspectives’ during training delivered by Dawn Makinson from Outreach Support Services for Mainstream Education on May 10th 2010.

The training hosted by Connexions and funded through Learning and Skills Council Invest to Change budget, gave 15 Merseyside employers the opportunity to learn about young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders and how to address some of the barriers they face in education and employment.

Part of Autism Initiatives UK, OSSME provide bespoke support for children/young people with autism from Early Years to the Work place, as well as a range of accredited and bespoke training to a range of clients in the learning and skills and care support sectors.

tpm has participated in a range of LSC funded and bespoke ASD training for staff since early 2009 and this is documented in a DVD Project Report commissioned by the Invest to Change Steering Group.

Speaking about tpm’s ASD workforce development training, Brian Quinn stated: “our journey to awareness on ASD has been enlightening and rewarding. OSSME staff have been supportive and empowering facilitators of our learning and helped us provide real and valuable work experience opportunities to ASD students. Getting our employers involved completes an important cycle that is critical to the quality work-based learning experience’’

Founded in the early 1970s in the Merseyside region, Autism Initiatives is a parent-led charity and a member of both the Autism Alliance and the Confederation of Service Providers for People with Autism (CoSPPA).

Find out about World Autism Awareness Day.

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