Child Care and Understanding Autism QLS Level 3

Child Care

Level 3:

Unit 1: Healthy Living

• What is a 'healthy lifestyle?'
• Exercise
• Healthy eating
• Activities for young children
• Wellbeing for children and their families

Unit 2: Child Care at Home

• Documentation required for a home child care business
• Intellectual development
• Supervision and travel to destinations away from the child care setting
• Good health and safety practices indoors and outdoors

Unit 3: Building Positive Relationships

• Current legal requirements
• Respecting and valuing individuality
• How to deal with conflict

Unit 4: Health Promotion and Development

• Types of foods that should be avoided
• Special dietary requirements
• Childhood chronic diseases and how they can affect development
• Government guidelines on food and nutrition

Unit 5: Administrative Procedures within the child care setting

• Data Protection Act
• Keeping accurate and up-to-date information
• Methods and systems for recording financial information
• Tax and VAT
• Storing data

Unit 6: Development and Learning

• Using ICT
• Safety concerns
• Literacy, language and communication
• Numeracy, reasoning skills and problem-solving
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Creative development

Understanding Autism

Level 3:

Unit 1: Introduction to Autism

• The triad of impairments
• Communication and social interaction
• Repetitive and obsessive behaviour
• Diagnosis
• Effects

Unit 2: Supporting individuals with Communication, Social Interaction and Behaviour

• Legislation
• Formal and informal networks
• Communication and social reaction
• Managing behaviour

Unit 3: Understanding Sensory Processing Disorder

• Sensory Processing Disorder
• Five key senses
• The vestibular system’
• Proprioception

Unit 4:Identifying and understanding other conditions associated with autism

• Conditions
• Supporting individuals

Unit 5: Supporting individuals with autism to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle

• Poor health
• Social exclusion
• Develop plans
• Social inclusion
• Safeguarding

Unit 6: The importance of person-centred values in supporting individuals with autism

• Person-centred values
• Person-centred practice