- Teaching Pretend play to young children with autism, Barton, Erin E
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- Teaching music to children with autism, Hourigan, Ryan. Hourigan, Amy
- Mindful Portrayals: Using Fiction to Create Awareness, Understanding, and Support for People with Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Brenna, Beverly
synthesis
- The articles chosen show the ways teachers use arts and imagination to teach kids with autism. Each article has a different approach, but the outcomes are meant to be the same. The problem when trying to teach kids with autism is that because the students can’t conceptualize what is being taught. Both Barton and Brenna focus on the ways in which fiction and imagination can be used to teach kids with autism how to communicate with others and build social skills, whether it is through imagining how to play or creating and reading fictional stories in hopes of them having real world applications. By using their imagination, kids with autism will learn how to think about abstract ideas while also learning how to communicate those ideas with other people. While the Hourigan’s focus on the way arts, particularly music, can be taught to children with autism. It’s taking the abstract ideas of imagination from Barton and Brenna and showing how to implicate them in real life.
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