Certificate of Achievement
Marlene Geraldine Acevedo y Ovando
has completed the following course:
This online course explored the concept of attention and its impact on autistic people, and helped you develop tools to assess and teach attention in autistic children at school. It also guided you through the ideas of attention and its links to neurodivergence such as autism and ADHD.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Lila Kossyvaki
Associate Professor in Severe Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
University of Birmingham
Dr Carmel Mevorach
Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate key areas of difficulties for autistic people and the uniqueness of each individual
- Explore the different attention functions
- Develop your understanding of why attention is a key factor in learning
- Identify the unique ways attention is presented in autistic people
- Explore how attention can be taught
- Reflect on the main reasons technology can be an effective tool to teach autistic individuals
- Investigate an evidence-based app and how it improves attention in autistic children
Syllabus
- Autism
- Models of attention
- Attention and learning
- Technology and autism
- Attention in autism
- Attention training
- Computerized progressive attentional training (CPAT): how it works and case studies
Issued on 23rd March 2026
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