Autism and the Primary School Programme (Parent) St John the Baptist Boys' NS, Limerick

Dee Hogan is an Autism Trainer/Advisor in Middletown Centre for Autism.

Dee has extensive experience teaching and supporting autistic children and young people. Her experiences include Pre-school, Early Intervention Autism Classes, Primary Autism Classes, Mainstream Primary and Special Schools.

She has written, lectured and assessed modules on the Special Needs Assistant and Level Four Autism qualifications, as professional development for parents and professionals. Dee has also worked as a part time Lecturer with University College Cork designing and delivering the Diploma in Autism Studies as well as providing training for teachers, third level students, parents and professionals.

Dee’s training specialisms are Reframing Behaviour, Early Intervention, Classroom Strategies, and Transitions. Dee holds a MEd in Special Education Autism from the University of Birmingham.

Joan is a second level science teacher working independently as Posautive.

Following many years teaching in mainstream classrooms, Joan worked on individual planning in centres for adults with learning disabilities and those with mental health struggles.

She, then, became one of the first SENOs in Ireland, observing and providing school supports for students with atypical needs across eighty rural schools.

While studying for an M.Ed. in Autism, Joan was taught by and met a variety of autistic adults, which ultimately led to her own autism assessment. Prior to meeting such a diverse range of autistic people, Joan would only have recognised autism in people with profound and complex support needs.

Joan is passionate about using students’ interests to support autistic learners of all levels of cognitive ability to access education and contented lives.

She currently works on a variety of projects with agencies such as Middletown Centre for Autism, Dublin City University, Nua Healthcare, Fingal Libraries. In recent years, creating and delivering the Posauteen and Posaudult courses to help autistic people understand and advocate for themselves has been a major focus of Joan’s time.

Dee Hogan is an Autism Trainer/Advisor in Middletown Centre for Autism.

Dee has extensive experience teaching and supporting autistic children and young people. Her experiences include Pre-school, Early Intervention Autism Classes, Primary Autism Classes, Mainstream Primary and Special Schools.

She has written, lectured and assessed modules on the Special Needs Assistant and Level Four Autism qualifications, as professional development for parents and professionals. Dee has also worked as a part time Lecturer with University College Cork designing and delivering the Diploma in Autism Studies as well as providing training for teachers, third level students, parents and professionals.

Dee’s training specialisms are Reframing Behaviour, Early Intervention, Classroom Strategies, and Transitions. Dee holds a MEd in Special Education Autism from the University of Birmingham.

Interactive Webinar Sessions

As means of adding additional interaction to webinars, Middletown Centre for Autism will be offering a range of webinar watch sessions, with internationally renowned speakers.

In a watch session, we will play a pre-recorded presentation and the speaker will be in attendance, as part of the session. Any questions you may have can be added to the Chat box. The speaker, then, can pause the video and answer the query or add additional explanation to the point being made, giving us all the opportunity to have advice and guidance clarified.

So, you are essentially watching the session along with the presenter.

Webinar watch sessions seek to build new ways to bring people together with the ultimate aim of differentiating and exploring the topic further whilst promoting and engaging in meaningful conversation.

As a means of adding additional interaction to the webinars, Middletown Centre for Autism will be offering a range of Watch Parties, with internationally renowned speakers. Watch Parties seek to build new ways to bring people together, with a shared interest, using pre-planned and recorded webinars, but with the ultimate aim of differentiating and exploring the topic further whilst promoting and engaging in meaningful conversations

With a Watch Party, we will play a pre-recorded presentation, but the speaker will be in attendance, as part of the session. Any questions you may have can be added to the Chat box. The speaker, then, can pause the video and answer the query or add additional explanation to the point being made, giving us all the opportunity to have advice and guidance clarified.

Dee Hogan is an Autism Trainer/Advisor in Middletown Centre for Autism.

Dee has extensive experience teaching and supporting autistic children and young people. Her experiences include Pre-school, Early Intervention Autism Classes, Primary Autism Classes, Mainstream Primary and Special Schools.

She has written, lectured and assessed modules on the Special Needs Assistant and Level Four Autism qualifications, as professional development for parents and professionals. Dee has also worked as a part time Lecturer with University College Cork designing and delivering the Diploma in Autism Studies as well as providing training for teachers, third level students, parents and professionals.

Dee’s training specialisms are Reframing Behaviour, Early Intervention, Classroom Strategies, and Transitions. Dee holds a MEd in Special Education Autism from the University of Birmingham.