Understanding Autism and Inclusive Education

Introduced By

• Ruth Murphy, Disability Support Service, MTU Cork

Speaker

• James Moroney, Training Officer, AsIAm

Event Descriptor

AsIAm are running an awareness session for all MTU staff and students to provide a greater understanding of autism and the role that each of us can play in making MTU more autism friendly.

By the end of this session, participants will have a greater understanding of:

• What autism is
• The four main challenges that autistic people face
• The strengths of autistic people
• Autism friendly language
• The supports that we each can put in place to include autistic people in all aspects of college life.

Biography

James Moroney joined the AsIAm team at the start of 2021 as Training Officer. He was awarded a BA in Applied Psychology from University College Cork in 2011. He has since been working as a trainer in various different roles, such as delivering mental health workshops to secondary school students with Aware and delivering internet safety workshops to primary and secondary school students, as well as their teachers and parents with Zeeko. Since 2010, he has been involved in coaching rowing in his spare time. He hopes to use all the experience he has gained in these roles to help bring a greater awareness of Autism to everyone on the island of Ireland.