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Shakespeare and Autism Project unlocks communication through sensory games. Workshops for children and facilitator training will be held in November. Shakespeare and Autism Project workshop offers ...
The organization also founded Project SEARCH Collaborates for Autism, a program to help autistic high school students transition from school to work. In June 2013, they opened the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain on the New York-Presbyterian Westchester campus to provide clinical services to autistic people throughout their lives. [3]
In 2012, ASAN began the annual Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Summer Institute, [46] a week-long workshop teaching autistic students to engage in activism and advocacy on their campuses. [47] Disability rights activist Lydia Brown is an alumn of the leadership program. [48]
The Autism Community in Action (TACA) (formerly known as Talk About Curing Autism) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2000 by Lisa Ackerman [3] and based in Irvine, California. The mission statement is "TACA provides education, support and hope to families living with autism". [ 4 ]
Last year, as the industry faced an unprecedented health crisis, Exceptional Minds, the L.A.-based nonprofit professional training academy and computer animation studio, was forced to pivot and ...
University of San Diego professors are developing programs to empower neurodivergent students --- those with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, dyslexia, among other learning differences.
In children, incorporating a child's special interest into their education has been shown to improve learning outcomes, [31] [29] increase attention on learning topics [32] and teach behaviours such as sportsmanship. [33] Students have been shown to write better when writing about their special interest compared to a control topic. [34]
ISA's basic premises stem from a concept paper written by Dr. Thomas J. Sergiovanni, [4] a professor of public education at Trinity University.Its founding was prompted by the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which, economically connecting the United States with Mexico and Canada, and raised the issue of international relations.