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=Teaching the Arts to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder=

The workshops were sponsored by [|VSA] Pennsylvania and the [|Pennsylvania Council on the Arts] under a contract from the [|John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]. The partnership that presented the workshops included [|ArtsErie], the [|Barber National Institute] and the [|Dickinson Center]. The workshops offered a standards-based professional development training for educators and/or teaching artists to improve their skills when teaching the arts to students with ASD pre-K through grade 12. The workshops were held on June 18th and 20th in Erie and Elk counties. media type="custom" key="23702356"

Each workshop included:

 
 * An overview of characteristics of Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and other pervasive Developmental Disabilities
 * Introduction to People First Language
 * Strategies for using Universal Design for learning to allow greater access to the curriculum for children with ASD
 * Strategies for behavior management
 * Best Practice in assessment

Workshop Bibliography & Resources 

Each workshop included two experiential arts activities: a media arts exploration of book making on iPads using book creator and [|comic life] lead by Rand Whipple from [|Box of Light]and a movement/dance activity building to a performance to the Baby Elephant Song lead by [|Siobhan Peterson Walsh]. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.5;">media type="custom" key="23728650"media type="custom" key="23728654"

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.5;">Using [|Book Creator] on the iPads everyone made a version of a [|social story]. Here are some examples of what we did. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.5;">media type="custom" key="23702180"media type="custom" key="23702216" <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.5;">media type="custom" key="23702190"media type="custom" key="23702228" <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.5;">media type="custom" key="23702200"media type="custom" key="23702210"