Webinar: Working with Autistic Learners in PE, Physical Activity and Sport

Course evaluation summary

Number of Participants: 172
Number of Respondents: 36

Overall Assessment:

What was best about the session?

Very informative.
The discussion and speakers.
The individuals who have autism.
The girls speaking about their own experiences.
Hearing from Grace and her experience was very thought-provoking. Thank you all.
Concrete examples and guest speakers.
Actually hearing from young people who experience this every day - hearing their experiences and what would have/have helped them.
The session reminded me of some teaching strategies that I could use. Hearing from the 2 young peoples experience was incredibly valuable.
Activity Inclusion Model and STEP Framework to apply to my practice.
I enjoyed the inspiring stories shown how it can be done and the additions you can change.
Hearing personal experiences was extremely valuable; some really informative insights and clear actions to take to improve inclusion of all pupils.
Links to other resources.
Everything.
The guest speakers perspective, very powerful and would love to have heard more.
The input from the 2 Autistic young adults.
Getting the young person perspective.
I thought it was so helpful to hear firsthand the challenges and things that may help others for those that have autism.
Hearing about the experiences of the two autistic speakers.
The speakers, great to hear real life experiences.
Great presentation, very engaging. Also really enjoyed meeting the two guests.
Interesting and practical ideas.
The lived experience shared was particularly valuable to hear and further reinforced the importance of supporting learners effectively. The insights and practical strategies provided were very useful, and I will be incorporating them.
Listening to real life experiences by autistic pupils.
The personal perspectives.
Hearing the perspective of an autistic coach.
Practical advice and Autistic presenters.
Guest speakers speaking from experience and access to frameworks to use when delivering sessions.
I gained some very useful tools to support assessment and making adaptations for learners, it was brilliant, thank you!
The use of clear examples and strategies that could be used was very useful.
Really enjoyed hearing from Grace.
Hearing personal stories, especially from Grace who spoke so eloquently about her experience in school.
Hearing from young people who could share their experiences. Alison was also very clear in her explanations.
Hearing from Autistic sports people.
The young coach speaking from experience in her journey.
Hearing Grace and Hollie personal experiences.
This is a truly fantastic session. The overview and adjustments to consider making in sessions are excellent, and easy to implement. Then Grace and Hollie talking about their experiences at school and studying were utterly inspiring and a great insight. I have one (possibly two) autistic sons (8 and 10), and they are just beginning to refuse school; the timing and quality of this session has been so good for me and my family. I'm so grateful for the efforts and honesty - thank you. I'm also most way through reading Grace's blogs.

What, if anything, do you think should have been included?

Nothing (17)
I would have loved to see how to over come the daily pe games/activities for disabilities and autistic learners.
I think the sharing of the experiences was most powerful and informative. Perhaps more time for a chance to ask questions to the Hollie and Grace to gain better insights.
Felt the start of the webinar was very fast paced with a lot of info, appreciate a lot to fit in.
More links to resources if available.
I don't think you could add anymore, although the hour went so fast, as it was so interesting.
Didn’t feel anything else was required.
Would have enjoyed more detail regarding VI, but this is because it's my specialism. Enjoyed the presentation!
The strategies shared were useful, though more examples of adaptations in practice would have been helpful.
I'm not sure! I felt that there was great engagement and learning when Grace & Hollie shared their experiences but time ran over a little bit. I think it was fab when there were questions in the chat and people were able to share their experiences and advice too.
More practical advice for within the class.
Need more time I felt the presenter's where having to race through what they had to say with very little question/answer sessions.
More chance for wider discussion - for example break out rooms.
I think the webinar would have benefitted from being a little longer due to how much important information needed to be covered. The lived experience was highly beneficial too.
Everything was included. Thank you.
I enjoyed the tools given at the beginning, it might have been good to have looked at that with specific case studies.
Nothing - the content was perfect for the time available!
I thought it was a brilliant webinar.
More presenters speaking of their experiences and challenges and solutions.
Not sure as I'm not PE/Active schools staff but work closely with both to support young people to complete Wider achievement Awards in physical activities and sport.
I would have watched for longer for more Q&A (I watched the recorded version as couldn't attend live).

What other CPD training would you like the SSC to provide?

A range of sports and games examples for ASN pupils.
Games to play.
More on sports equipment we could buy in to support inclusion further.
Seems a lack of training for Primary teacher on how to teach PE, especially inclusive. Could a course be created for this?
More things like this, showcasing a variety of disabilities with people with lived experience.
Always interested in VI and CVI in particular.
More classroom/PE gameshall etc based practical help with neurodivergent pupils.
Further training on neurodiversity and pupils within PE settings.
How to accommodate children with sensory issues in mainstream schools.
Sensory overwhelm in mainstream and accommodations which can be made, including personal stories from young adults who have experienced this.
More training to enhance children and young people with severe and complex needs PE experience.
More of this. I think within our sport communities there are a lot of coaches who know they need this, and others who don't know they need this. Any coach who attends a session like this will be a better coach (and person) and it will improve coaching, safeguarding, equality and inclusion for all of their participants.

How did you hear about this course?

Colleague: 13
Line manager: 9
SSC Website: 6
Active Schools: 3
SSC direct email: 3
Community Centre: 1
SDS website: 1