Drama for Pupils and Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Information
Start Date - 10/05/2010
Start Time - 09:30
Finish Date - 10/05/2010
Finish Time - 16:00
Venue - Middletown
Tutor - Dr Carmel O’Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin)
Audience - This course is designed for education staff working with children and young people with an ASD.
Description
Content
The course will explore the role of educational drama as an experiential approach to social skills education for children and young people with an ASD (6-20 years of age). The approach advocated is an integrative one, which builds on participants’ existing skills base and develops their areas of deficit through a fun and highly engaging approach. This successful teaching and learning method has been tried and tested with many participants during the last 5 years.
The course will cover the following areas:
• Practical role playing
• The use of teacher in role and pupil in role
• Simulation activities, drama games and exercises
• Fictional narration
• Protection into role / Protection into emotion
• Working in whole class settings, pairs and small groups
• Strategies to differentiate between fiction and reality
• Working with an assistant to extend and deepen the experience
The course will consist of a combination of a presentation, practical activities, and case study discussions.
Learning Outcomes
• Participants will have a deeper understanding of the role that creative drama can play in the social skills education of children and young people with an ASD.
• Participants will have practical experience of a range of effective educational drama strategies, which can be used in the personal, social and emotional education of children and young people with an ASD.
• Participants will be able to plan learning episodes for their students using a range of age-appropriate creative teaching and learning strategies, which will enhance and develop their students’ social interactions in the school and local environment.
Other Information
Presenter: Carmel O’Sullivan
Dr. Carmel O’Sullivan is the Director of Post-graduate Teaching and Learning, and the Co-ordinator of the Division of Continuing Professional Development in the School of Education, Trinity College Dublin. She is also the director of the International Summer School in Drama in Education at the University, and former chairperson and founding member of ADEI (the Association for Drama in Education in Ireland). Carmel has led a major longitudinal research project with Aspire (Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland) from 2004 to date, examining the effectiveness of using a creative arts approach, particularly focusing on the role of drama in social skills education with children and young people with Asperger Syndrome. She is currently collaborating with neuro-cognitive scientists on a brain-training project, exploring the area of executive functioning in young people with an ASD. Carmel is regularly invited to teach and present her research in many parts of the world, and is delighted to be invited to work with education staff associated with the Middletown Centre.
Application Deadline - 26/04/2010 12:00