26TRA224 Autism and Girls
Date: Tuesday 27th January 2026
Time: 7 - 8 pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Target Audience: Primary Schools, Teachers, SNAs, mainstream and special classes, special schools
In this session, Amy will discuss the specific and unique presentation of Autistic girls. Amy will present up to date, Neurodiversity affirming information and real-life experiences from autistic women on their journey, the challenges they faced in being identified as autistic and what we can learn from this. Amy will also discuss how to become more in tune with your female pupils, including how to recognise and support high-masking students and learn new ways to support them in your classroom.
Bio of Presenter: Amy Collins
Amy is a graduate of the Masters in Speech and Language Therapy in the University of Limerick where she graduated in 2010, having completed her Degree in Early Childhood Studies in UCC. Amy has spent her career to date specialising in her passion in supporting Autistic and neurodiverse children, teenagers and adults. Amy has extensive and international experience as a specialist SLT in a range of disability and education teams in Ireland and New Zealand, where she worked for the Ministry of Education. Amy has also worked as Clincal Lead SLT in the NCSE and brings an understanding of both the clinical and educational aspects to supporting autistic students. Amy is passionate in educating and updating other professionals’ knowledge with new information and supporting families to advocate for their child’s needs.
Course Details
| Course Start Date / Time | 27-01-2026 7:00 pm |
| Course End Date / Time | 27-01-2026 8:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 27-01-2026 7:15 pm |
| Available place | 500 |
| Fee | FREE |
| Number Hours | 1 |
| Speaker | Amy Collins |
| Location | Online |