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Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child Tessa Morton

Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child By Tessa Morton

Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child by Tessa Morton


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A collection of drama and immersive theatre inspired activities for parents or carers of autistic children. Following the 3C pathway of Connecting, Calming and Communicating, these activities are accessible and easy to implement, allowing parents to deeply engage and meet children where they are, building understanding of autistic children and young people.

Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child Summary

Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child: A Toolkit of Activities to Encourage Emotional Regulation and Social Development by Tessa Morton

This book teaches drama and immersive theatre-based activities for parents and professionals working with children and young people on the autism spectrum. The exercises follow the author's simple, person-centred '3C pathway' of connecting, calming and communicating, and enable parents to gain an understanding of the challenges an autistic child may face by 'walking in their shoes', while empowering children to become more self-aware and express themselves in healthy ways.

The activities included in the book are tried-and-tested, accessible and easy to implement, such as breathing exercises, mirroring movements, and treasure hunts. Using these activities, parents and professionals can gain insight into the sensory and social challenges experienced by those on the spectrum and can work to build a positive and trusting relationship, offering a secure base for children's emotional development.

Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child Reviews

This book is an excellent and informative analysis of autism in a readable, accessible and relatable way. It is both contextual with the theories of autism and personal accounts which humanise the experiences. Anxiety is the main premise and strategies are shared to offer the reader different strategies for their young ones (and adults) to explore. Highly recommended. -- Paul Isaacs speaker, trainer, consultant and author on the autism spectrum
This is a very positive book that is supportive and the exercises are well described and have been developed and refined in many settings. The authors also stress that the exercises can be personalised as parents 'enter into their child's world and 'lean in' to their passions. -- Mary Mountstephen * SEN Magazine *

About Tessa Morton

Tessa Morton has been a coach mentor and workshop leader for over 30 years. She is a trained drama teacher and BACP registered CBT counsellor specialising in supporting autistic students, their families and schools. She has run drama clubs supporting autistic students to connect and express themselves for 15 years. She founded Act for Autism with Jane and together they have created the acclaimed Connections Workshop, the 3 C pathway and the award-winning Autistic Voices project.

Jane Gurnett holds an MA in The Advanced Teaching of Shakespeare and a BPhil in Autism (Children). She is an actor, teacher of drama and workshop leader, and has written articles published in Advances in Autism (Emerald Publishing) and Good Autism Practice. She co-founded Act for Autism and develops workshops and strategies for the organisation.

Act for Autism delivers country-wide training and present nationally at conferences such as the Autism Show, the National Autistic Society's professionals conference and at universities. In 2020 they won a NAS professionals award for their community projects.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Act for Autism: who, what and why?
2. Creating the Practice: Clear Time and the 3C Pathway
3. Connecting through drama
Autism and the Senses
4. Why autism is hard to understand
5. Understanding autism as a sensory difference and the link to anxiety
6. What autistic individuals say about their sensory experience
7. The senses and how they impact on a child's experience
Connecting through Clear Time and the 3C Pathway
8. What is Clear Time?
9. The first C: Connecting
10. The second C: Calming
11. The third C: Communicating
12. Why is heartbeat so important for the 3C Pathway?
13. The role of drama exercises in our work
14. 3C Pathway exercises
Conclusion
References

Additional information

NGR9781787755505
9781787755505
1787755509
Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child: A Toolkit of Activities to Encourage Emotional Regulation and Social Development by Tessa Morton
New
Paperback
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
20210721
176
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