Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs: Transforming lives through telling tales

By: Nicola Grove

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Synopsis: This innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for learners with or without special educational needs. With sections that outline both therapeutic and educational approaches, the leading practitioners who contribute to this practical resource draw on their extensive experience, and distil their own approaches for the reader to use as inspiration for their own lessons. Providing a highly accessible combination of theory and practice, the contributors to this book: define their own approach to storytelling describe the principles and theory that underpin their practice demonstrate how they work with different types of story provide extensive case-studies and assessment frameworks for a range of different special needs and age ranges provide some ‘top tips’ for practitioners who want to start using stories in this way. Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs will be of interest to all education professionals as well as therapists, youth workers, counsellors, and storytellers and theatre practitioners working in special education.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 142 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781136170478
Related ISBNs:: 9781138170025, 9780415687751, 9780203080924
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/08/21
Copyrighted By:: Nicola Grove
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Education, Drama, Plays and Theater
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Nicola Grove