The charity Tomorrow’s Voices is hosting a workshop next week as it raises awareness of autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.

The event, “Skill generalisation — what does that really mean?”, will provide strategies and tactics to on teaching skills to children.

It will highlight how children may struggle in transferring and continuing communication skills across all environments, people and scenarios both accurately and fluently, which is the hallmark of true mastery of a skill.

These include familiar scenarios such as:

• a child behaves one way with one parent, but a different way with another;

• a child uses their language with adults but not peers;

• a child’s alphabet seems strong at school but not at home.

The event takes place on Wednesday, from 6pm to 8pm. Admission is $25 and attendees will be provided with a Professional Development Certificate upon completion of the workshop. All proceeds benefit the Tomorrow’s Voices Autism Centre and the families it supports.

Anyone interested in further information about Tomorrow’s Voices should contact 297-4342 or e-mail info@tomorrowsvoices.bm.