Acting Antics: A Theatrical Approach to Teaching Social Understanding to Kids and Teens with Asperger Syndrome
This fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides a 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. Acting Antics contains a wide repertoire of...
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This fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides a 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. 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. Also included are helpful appendices that 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 photocopiable 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.About the Author:Cindy B. Schneider is currently Director of her own Acting Antics Theatre Company and Autism Consultant for Chester County Intermediate Unit in Pennsylvania USA
Foreword Tony Attwood 9Preface 11Introduction 15Who? What? Where? 21Getting Started 27Paired Activities 36Scripted Partner and Group Scenes 43Whose Line Is It Anyhow? 53Starting Your Own Troupe 69Ready or Not, Here They Come! 75Antics Summer Camp 80The "Really Big Show" 87It's a Wrap! 91Sample Schedules and Activity Lists 93Photocopiable Forms 109Photocopiable Partner Scripts 123Group Scripts 161References 182Resources 183Subject Index 187Author Index 191
