Description
Autism Arts Level 3 follows the way creative arts and drama-therapy are increasingly used to help people with special educational needs to explore, reflect and develop when linguistic ability or intellectual functioning restricts their self-expression.
Autism Arts Level 3: is for use by facilitators with and without drama experience, and encourages autistic children to learn, interact and develop. Through storytelling, group activities and arts and crafts, students can improve their social skills, self-expression, vocal and physical skills, and imagination.
During the course, children are encouraged to take part in fun and imaginative activities, including singing, dancing, making sock puppets, and acting in the interactive stories Sandy’s Jungle Adventure and The Land of Smilealot!
The Autism Arts Level 3 syllabus covers three levels. Each level is one year long and comprises three terms with 12 lessons per term. Level 3 draws on the previous learning to encourage students to develop an integrated sense of self. The content is aimed at children and young people from five to fifteen.
Includes CD-rom with supplementary material.
The additional two manuals make up a drama syllabus to help autistic children develop their communication skills, life skills and self-confidence.
Autism Arts Level 1:
Autism Arts Level 2:
Audience
Autism Arts Level 3 is aimed at teachers and trainers running groups for young people with autism; SEN and mainstream schools.
Details
ISBN: 9781909810389
Publication: 01 November 2013
Content:
About the author
Foreword by Dr Sue Jennings
Introduction
Overview
Level 1,Term 1: Me and my family
Term 2: Into the sea
Term 3: Fables and morals CD rom with supplementary material
Author
Abigail Barragry has worked around the world using the arts as a tool to teach, empower and bring groups together. She has spent extensive time in Malaysia where she pioneered the use of drama in education and for psychosocial development. Abigail has given numerous presentations on the benefits of creativity and expression in mental health, and conducted extensive research on this area at the University of Malaya.
Abigail has been doing drama with children and young people for many years to target specific barriers faced by individuals and groups. In particular, she has created programmes for autistic children, those with Down’s syndrome and those who have not had the same positive start in life as their peers.
As director of a performing arts enrichment centre, Abigail has spent considerable time fine-tuning programmes, training teachers and closely monitoring international developments in the field. As drama specialist for the National Autism Society of Malaysia, she created their official three-year drama programme.
Ioana Serb –
Autism Arts level 3 fully goes into exploring relationships, by helping children on the autistic spectrum to identify and categorize them, culminating with helping them understand the complex and flexible links between themselves and others. Abigail Barragray builds upon and integrates the previous two levels – body, voice, projection, role-playing are used in a very balanced and integrated way to develop roles and the understanding of roles. Self-awareness of the children on the autistic spectrum is taken to the higher level of using the self in relation to others, through fun creative exercises, altogether with stimulating and using the imagination as a way of learning. The main bonus in my opinion is that using drama helps children on the autistic spectrum to find, develop and show their strengths, helps them to build on their self-confidence – all these show throughout the 3 levels of Abigail Barragray’s Autistic Arts, but is particularly visible in level 3. I believe Autistic Arts (with all its 3 volumes)