Early Bird Course....recommendations???

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Not sure if this is just a regional thing or whether Autism charities around the country run the same thing...we have just (after 8 month wait) got the details of our place on the Early Bird course ran by Daisy Chain. The trainers are actually two lovely women who we know quite well....DDs Ed Psych and one of her TAs from Early support nursery. Has anyone else done the course and is it worth the amount of hols its going to take up....every tue for 13 weeks!!!!

13 weeks?! Gosh ours was about 6 weeks from memory, but they were 2.5 hours long.

I got a reasonable amount out of it, but if I HADN'T done the Hanen More Than Words it may have given me more to think about. Either is a good course, though our Early Bird course focused a lot on behaviours and reasons for the behaviours.

Here they only last 5 or 6 sessions, but are very well received I understand.

Thanks everyone! Its 2.5 hrs for 13 weeks but 4 of those weeks are home visits. Not a chance DH will be able to attend since he works an hours commute away and has used most of hols for school visits/pead appointments/nursery reviews etc so was thinking of asking DMiL to come in his place.....shes a wonderful woman and a great help to us but still very much in denial so think she would get even more than me out of it!!!

That's a good idea Jo re MiL :-)

our LA run their own version of the Early Bird course where I am, it was very good as an introduction, but tbh, I'd picked just about everything up from these very boards!

what was good about it was the hands-on session about visual schedules and prompts, sharing with other parents was invaluable for me on this subject.

each family were allocated 2 places, it was up to the parents who took up those places, as long as one was a parent. by the end of the course the vacant chairs were mostly ones allocated to support workers/professionals