Qualification: Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care Optional Units
Unit: Unit 378 Understand how to support individuals
with autistic spectrum conditions
Learning outcome: 2. Understand how autistic spectrum conditions can impact on the lives of individuals and those
around them
Assessment criteria: 2.1 Describe ways in which autism can impact on the everyday lives of individuals, their
parents/carers and siblings, and others close to them
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- Ways that autism can impact the everyday lives of individuals include:
- Difficulties finding work
- Difficulties with everyday living tasks
- Difficulties with establishing and maintaining relationships
- Difficulties communicating with others
- Harassment, discrimination and stigma from society
- Difficulties accessing services and facilities
- Ways that autism can impact the everyday lives of an individual’s family include:
- Parents may have to become full-time carers and not have time for other things in their lives
- Parents and siblings may feel guilty or anxious
- Parents may worry about how their child will manage after they die
- Siblings may be neglected
- Additional stress
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