Courses & events for education professionals

Further details are available below or, to quickly navigate to a specific training option, please use the following links:

We are also able to offer a 60–90-minute online consultation, for up to 5 education professionals, to work through perplexing situations involving young people in their setting with a PDA profile. For more information on this service including cost please complete the training enquiry form at the bottom of this page.

Live courses

Our live courses are delivered either in-person or online via Zoom (we can also deliver training for organisations via Microsoft Teams if preferred), by our training facilitators who have valuable lived experience of PDA as educators, PDAers themselves, parents, carers and family members.

Our CPD accredited courses are marked with the ‘CPD certified’ logo.

Each course we offer includes the following general content:

• what is PDA?
• demands and their effects
• how PDA can feel
• helpful approaches (including collaborative problem solving)
• signposting to resources & support

These themes are then developed with additional material included depending upon the course – detailed below.

Please note: any legislation/diagnostic approaches discussed are related to England unless stated otherwise. Education programmes are also available covering the Welsh education system, please ask for details.

Courses we’re currently offering for education professionals include:

PDA for Educators

CPD accredited courses

3-4 hour programmes (delivered as inset day training or 2 x twilight sessions).

Suitable for educators working with young people aged between 5-16 years within mainstream, SEN or autism specific schools. In-house programmes also available to include alternative provisions.

Additional material: legal duties, reasonable adjustments, children as learners, ideas for the classroom and demonstrating progress.

Please email training@pdasociety.org.uk to make a booking enquiry.

Tickets for upcoming public course dates are available below.

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What is PDA?

2.5-3 hour programmes

Introductory session discussing PDA, including an opportunity to ask questions to a PDA Adult.

Please email training@pdasociety.org.uk to make a booking enquiry.

Tickets for upcoming public course dates are available below.

Q&A Live events

Our online Q&A Live sessions invite guest speakers to answer questions about PDA and specific topics live via Zoom. 2-3 weeks after the live session you will be registered for our training hub and receive access to the recording for 30 days. Questions can be submitted at the time of booking and/or via the Zoom chat function on the night.

It may not be possible to answer all questions depending on the numbers attending and the amount of questions asked. Also it won’t be possible to answer specific questions on personal situations within these Q&A sessions – if you require support please contact our enquiry line.

Q&A recordings

We have replays of our past Q&A sessions, where guest speakers answer questions about PDA and specific topics, available to purchase for 30 days by clicking or tapping on the images below.

Already purchased a Q&A recording? Please sign in to the PDA Society training hub (using the same login method used to make the purchase) to access the recording via your dashboard. For further information about using the PDA Society training hub, please refer to our user guide.

Recorded Webinars

In addition to our live training opportunities we are pleased to now offer recorded webinars exploring a variety of topics.

These are available to purchase for £10 each and that will provide you with access to the webinar for 30 days

FREE webinars

The following pre-recoded webinars, videos and podcasts which may be of interest to education professionals are free to watch by clicking or tapping on the images below.