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Oliver McGowan Training

mrs.snooks

I had my Tier 1, Part 2 Training yesterday - online on Teams. And just wanted to say how good (overall) it was. 

The discussion from the two people with lived experience was one of the most useful bits of training I have had in a very long time. For me, the thoughts from the Autistic person were not new knowledge. But the thoughts from the person with a Learning Disability and Autism were a fresh, insightful reminder of how to better speak and treat people with learning disabilities.

There were a few painful parts from me:

1. That the training was provided by a private (non-NHS) Company hence making profit from providing the talk.

2. The facilitator was awful - patronising and seeming totally not thinking that she needed to take on board the advice that the speakers were teaching us.

3. It was a complete trigger for me and I felt quite awful afterwards.

4. That I felt I should have come out on the talk. It's funny. There I was and I wondered. Did the lived experience people know that there would be neurodivergent listeners right there with them 'in the room' as it were?

5. That it should be Part 1 of the Training. Much much better than the current part 1 - apologies to those who have tried to help with Part 1 to engage the reader, but the endless elearning just sucks the life out of it.

Anyone else done this training?

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  • I know where you are coming from with this. I see that a lot of these companies ar unregulated as a huge ethical issue. I spoke with one a month ago and their view was quite dumbed down. It made me feel like my views were one of a token autistic person, and all these things are only as good asn the information transferred.  As most of these people doing the courses may be half interested, or only temporary workers interested in short term gains. Effectively if you share your experience, you are also having it standardised within someone elses measurables - not on your own terms. I was a bit low for a few days after this. Just the lack of sensitivity and knowing that large numbers of autistic people were being pooled with false expectations that they might actually be given a job. Its kind of exploitative.

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  • I know where you are coming from with this. I see that a lot of these companies ar unregulated as a huge ethical issue. I spoke with one a month ago and their view was quite dumbed down. It made me feel like my views were one of a token autistic person, and all these things are only as good asn the information transferred.  As most of these people doing the courses may be half interested, or only temporary workers interested in short term gains. Effectively if you share your experience, you are also having it standardised within someone elses measurables - not on your own terms. I was a bit low for a few days after this. Just the lack of sensitivity and knowing that large numbers of autistic people were being pooled with false expectations that they might actually be given a job. Its kind of exploitative.

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