Boarding Pass for Autism-Workshop
Workshop for mental health professionals and educators working with children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
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Mental health professionals and educators working with children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Cost
Free admission
Reservation and more info
Booking required, at education@onassis.org
Booking requests will be treated on a first-come first-served basis.
T: +30 210 3713 000
Introduction
How does a child or adolescent with autism deal with the new -and often stressful- experience of an airplane trip?
Photo: Andreas Simopoulos
Do you remember the first time you flew by plane? Light signals, check-in, gates, announcements, airport control, fasten your seatbelts, ready for take-off… Air travel can be highly stressful. How does a child or adolescent with autism deal with the different stimuli in an airport?
As part of the innovative program “Boarding Pass for Autism”, which is realized by the Onassis Foundation and is already on its third year, an educational workshop is being organized for the first time, addressed to mental health professionals and educators working with children and adolescents with ASD.Information on the purpose and methodology of the “Boarding Pass for Autism” educational program
Acquaintance with handbooks produced in previous years by the scientific team of the “Boarding Pass for Autism” educational program
Training in the personalized use of the educational handbook on social histories
Supervision/guidance on participants’ case studies
Visit to the Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” and attendance of an air travel simulation process
