Barrier-free kids : an integrative approach to speech therapy using theater

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Authors
White, Elizabeth D.
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McGrath, Melissa
Issue Date
2018-05
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Honors College
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Barrier-Free Kids is a program designed for high functioning children on the autism spectrum. The program was designed to work with children between the ages of 8-13 who have a disability that affects their social and cognitive language skills. Barrier-Free Kids is a 10-week program that builds on personal awareness, social interactions, and communication skills through theatre. The program culminates in a performance of an original play that combines internal awareness, external exchange, and creative expression. Barrier-Free Kids is an engaging, empowering, and stimulating program that combines the arts and speech-language therapy to achieve growth with clients in a creative, contextualized environment. This program proposal can aide in implementing this program and used as a reference when presenting to a school board, grant board, or organization to gain support for the development of a similar program in the future.