`The ideas are excellent and well laid outacirc;?brvbar; This is an innovative approach to social skills training for students with Aspergers Syndrome who will tolerate acting; and for a group leader with energy and commitment to drama.-Speech and Language Therapy in Practice`Schneiders enthusiasm for the subject and her passion to improve life skills of young people is very evident and encourages the reader to progressacirc;?brvbar;As a catalogue of practical ideas with built-in resources; this is a useful book for support groups and families wishing to create a theatre group. Acting Antics has an easy-to-read format and includes activities that can be initiated with minimum preparation and resources.-Children Now Magazine; 2007This 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 anothers 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. Helpful appendices provide questionnaire forms to enable both the child and the program leader to assess and monitor the childs 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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good representation of Alan Bennetts short works.By PuckheadGreat purchase for the price. Plays are clever. I was only interested in "A Question of Attribution" but the other plays are more than worthwhile.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A delightful. funny playBy Helen DeGrootKafka had asked his closest friend to destroy all his writings upon his death. In this play he comes back after his death as a turtle and finds himself in the study of a Kafka scholar and that his friend disobeyed this request. He "metamorphisizes" into a human and is confronted with a collection of all his works and goes mad. Lots of good laughs on the way!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Thanks for OUT OF PRINT Materials!By Johanna MorrisonNot Easy to acquire.... but worth the effort.WONDERFUL Material!
