Improvised theatre and the autism spectrum: a practical guide to teaching social connection and communication skills

Abstract

Improvised Theatre and the Autism Spectrum is a practical guide to using improvised theatre to improve autistic 1 children’s social and communication skills. Both practitioners have a long history as practitioners of improvised theatre. Richard Ploesch is the expert on autistic people with his association with the Connections programme for National Comedy Theatre (named, ‘Unscripted Learning’), of which Gary Kramer is the artistic Ploesch has a master’s in special education and has qualified in applied behaviour analysis Going to the title of the book and considering how AI practitioners might want to present themselves in the academic and organisational realms, I wonder if ‘mindset’ is the best choice of metaphor for improvisers, who – you’d imagine – are not so concerned about what happens in the head (or the mind) as with what can be readily observed and transformed in the tangible and interactional world. Perhaps ‘Stance’ would serve better, while still to say