Acting Antics
A Theatrical Approach to Teaching Social Understanding to Kids and Teens With Asperger Syndrome
Jessica Kingsley Publishers · Print & ebook · December 15, 2006
This fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides the full set of tools for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) through drama.
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- Who it’s for
- A drama-based program for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome.
- Themes
- Social understanding, Drama-based learning, Asperger syndrome
- Genres
- Autism Spectrum, Acting
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This fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides the full set of tools for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) through drama. Cindy B. Schneider explains how the central processes in acting - including making and interpreting inferences from non-verbal cues, taking another's perspective, and formulating language - can be highly effective ways of addressing social cognition deficits in children with AS.
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Acting Antics contains a wide repertoire of activities and ideas for immediate application at home, in the classroom, in therapy workshops or social groups, ranging from initial warm up techniques, through paired activities, to larger group scenes and staging a show. Helpful appendices provide questionnaire forms to enable both the child and the program leader to assess and monitor the child's understanding of their roles, along with reproducible scripts and suitable scene designs. This complete, practical program provides a wealth of enjoyable educational ideas for parents, teachers, and therapists of children with Asperger Syndrome.
Acting and Social Understanding
A drama-based program for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome.
Come here for
- Acting activities that address non-verbal cues, perspective-taking, and language
- Questionnaires, reproducible scripts, and scene designs
Expect
- Activities from warm-ups and paired work to group scenes and staging a show
- Tools for use at home, in classrooms, therapy workshops, or social groups
Where it sits
| Autism Spectrum | 57% |
|---|---|
| Acting | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Social & Emotional Disabilities
- Performing Arts
- Child Psychology
- Authors
- Cindy Schneider
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Published
- December 15, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Social understanding · Drama-based learning · Asperger syndrome
- Reading lane
- Social & Emotional Disabilities