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I will have a Saturday morning spot opening up 7/15.

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Healing Trauma Through Drama Therapeutic drama therapy opens the door to healing through performance.

Great article about the benefits of improv. All of these apply to neurodivergent kids too. I would love to put together a group of tweens/teens interested in doing improv.

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The rules of improv can make you funnier. They can also make you more confident. : Life Kit Improv comedy is about more than making people laugh. It can help performers be more creative and self-assured — and combat anxiety, both on and off stage.

Short version: Repeated phrases are often meaningful. Some people with disabilities communicate mostly in memorized phrases and references and allusions to stories and other things. Nondisabled people are taken seriously when they communicate this way. Disabled people who communicate in references should be taken just as seriously. (Even when they don’t communicate in literal language very often or at all).

Meaningful echolalia – Real Social Skills Meaningful echolalia October 10, 2015June 21, 2021 Real Social Skills Some people communicate mostly in memorized phrases or allusions to stories and events. It’s actually pretty normal to communicate in phrases and allusions. I think most people communicate that way at least some of the time. For...

Play, language, and conversation are all pieces of the puzzle.
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