Intro -- Drama Therapy and Storymaking in Special Education -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Definition of drama therapy -- Drama therapy as an appropriate intervention -- The use of drama therapy with people with a learning disability -- How the book is organized -- 1 Getting Started -- Assessing the level of the group -- Working within the classroom environment -- Teaching staff how to support the sessions -- Creating the culture of the sessions -- Physical safety -- 2 The Use of Traditional Stories -- Why use traditional stories? -- Guidelines for choosing traditional stories -- Where to find appropriate stories -- The use of props as aids to comprehension, participation and enjoyment -- Allocating roles in the story -- The use of song -- Structuring the sessions -- 3 Helping Others -- The children and the thunder god -- The bell of Hamana -- Rata the wanderer -- The umbrella tree -- 4 Dealing with Change -- Raven and the giant who sits on the tide -- Maui and the sun -- The Windmaker -- 5 Working as a Team -- The Thunder of the Four Colours -- The bog people -- Hemi and the whale -- The healing waters -- 6 Trickery and Stealing -- King Arthur's gold -- Jack and the beanstalk -- Maui's search for fire -- Raven and the light -- 7 Stories of a Special Child -- The birth of Maui -- Momotaro -- Morning Star, Evening Star -- 8 Unlikely Heroes -- Grandmother Spider -- Yukos and the monster -- Solomon and the bee -- The first sail -- 9 Competitiveness -- Tarantula and Swift Runner -- Atalanta and the golden apples -- Paikea -- 10 Trust -- Psyche and Amor -- Vassilisa and Baba Yaga Bony Legs -- Kahakura -- 11 Devising stories: A Guide to Using Stories to Explore Themes in Everyday Life -- Adolescent students with an intellectual disability -- Adolescent students with attentional or behavioural problems.

Students with Asperger syndrome -- 12 Using a Visual Storyboard with Students with Autism -- The storyboard -- 13 Drama Therapy and Engaging the Attention of Students with an Intellectual Disability: A Research Study -- Intellectual disability and the importance of attention -- Attention in drama therapy -- Alignment with special education literature -- Summary of literature review -- Components of the drama therapy sessions -- Measures -- Instructional procedure -- Programme support -- Results: therapist's record of sessions -- Therapist's record of changes in the four target students -- Summary -- Conclusion -- References -- Useful Websites -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

This practical resource book for professionals covers the broad spectrum of students attending special needs schools. Paula Crimmens places therapeutic storymaking within the context of drama therapy and offers practical advice on how to structure and set up sessions to be compatible with special needs learning environments.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.