Specialty Topic Training

Person-Centered Perspectives: Autism

This training package is exclusively available to Certified Instructors and is designed to provide a deeper understanding of autism and its impact on a range of behaviors. It includes a comprehensive collection of resources, giving you all the necessary tools to deliver effective, autism-specific training.

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Enhance Your Training with Autism-Focused Resources

Certified Instructors will receive specialized tools and knowledge to adapt core CPI training principles for individuals with autism—helping to better support those you serve.

Gain insight into autism and risk behavior
Deepen your understanding of autism and its impact on all behaviors, as well as CPI’s person-centered response model.
Apply practical skills to adapt CPI principles
Discover how to customize CPI's foundational models and de-escalation techniques to respond more effectively to individuals with autism in real-life situations.
Deliver content with confidence
Teach content tailored to staff needs with minimal effort thanks to ready-to-use guides, presentations, and digital resources.

Learning Features Built for Flexibility

Simplified Training Tools

Includes an Instructor Guide and electronic presentation for delivering content, plus an online course available for purchase for end learners.

Additional Instructor Support

A supplement to the core CPI Instructor Guide and electric presentation featuring autism-specific strategies, examples, and activities.

Digital Materials and Resources

Gain access to digital resources and a worksheet tailored to help end learners apply CPI models to individuals with autism.

Expert Videos

Utilize short videos that provide deeper insights for further professional development—ideal for Certified Instructors and staff.

Live Training Sessions

Participate in unlimited virtual sessions led by CPI Training and Development Consultants for implementation advice and peer-to-peer strategy sharing.

Complete Program Access

You’ll have access to materials for CPI programs you’re certified to teach, including VI, NCI™, NCI™ With Intermediate Skills, and NCI™ With Advanced Physical Skills.

Developed Based on Feedback from Certified Instructors

We’ve created Specialty Topic Training packages, like Person-Centered Perspectives: Autism, in direct response to requests for more behavior-specific training content tailored to the needs of your staff and those you serve. In response, we’ve developed a library of easy-to-use resources supported by expert-informed content, personalized CPI training recommendations, and available for only $499 USD per CI—empowering your team to deliver specialized de-escalation training with confidence.

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Add Autism-Focused Insights to CPI Training

Enhance any of our four foundational CPI training programs with content tailored to autism-specific needs.

Verbal Intervention™
Prepares staff to identify, respond to, and prevent low-risk crisis behavior with non-restrictive intervention techniques.
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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention®
Trains staff to prevent and de-escalate medium- to high-risk behavior using both restrictive and non-restrictive methods.
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NCI™ With Intermediate Physical Skills
Equips staff with the skills and confidence to safely use physical interventions as a last resort, without using supine or prone holds.
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NCI™ With Advanced Physical Skills
Prepares staff with problem-solving skills to recognize the level of risk and minimize physical interventions using safe and advanced disengagement techniques.
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