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Duration: July 21-September 15, 2025
Cost: $975 (group rates available; tuition remission available for qualified Drexel employees)
Live Session Dates: Mondays and Wednesdays, July 21-September 15, 2025, 6:00-6:30 PM ET (Additional cohorts announced soon.)
Microcredential Granted Upon Completion
For group rates or tuition remission, please email the training team.

Members of the autistic community aim to achieve full and productive lives and deserve to be understood for their unique abilities. Many efforts to support, serve, and include autistic individuals provide a limited perspective of the complexities of autism, or perpetuate outdated myths about the ways autistic people experience the world.

This program is designed to debunk common myths, explore recent scientific findings, and gain insight into the lived experience of those with autism. Its goal is to provide professionals in education, health, and human services (e.g., direct support professionals, 1:1 aides, nurses) with the knowledge they need to engage more effectively and humanely with members of the autistic community. Family members and caregivers of autistic individuals are also encouraged to enroll. Topics covered include clinical features of autism, managing stressful events, double empathy, social relationships, neurodiversity, and autistic culture.

ISLEA is co-taught by instructors with research/clinical expertise and lived experience, exemplifying the principle of “Nothing about us, without us.”

Learning Concepts:
ISLEA participants will:

• Develop a deeper, more reflective and empathic way of caring for autistic individuals,
• Learn ways to work more effectively with people across the autism spectrum,
• Gain a better understanding of the science and lived experience of autism, thereby reducing stress and burnout.

Format:
ISLEA is 30-hour, fully online training, alternating between 30-minute live (learn with the instructors and other trainees) and 30-45 minute on-demand (learn on your own time) learning sessions.

The upcoming ISLEA cohort will be led by Jared Richards, MS and China Parenteau, BA. 

Registration is now open and ends July 11, 2025.

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If you are interested in ISLEA, but unable to attend this scheduled cohort, please complete the interest form and the SCTL team will follow up with you.