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 storytellingdescribe the principles and theory that underpin their practicedemonstrate how they work with different types of storyprovide extensive case-studies and assessment frameworks for a range of different special needs and age rangesprovide some lsquo;top tipsrsquo; 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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. real bargainBy ZZIt is a real bargain that the book is totally new. While the cover is flipped at a corner; it is still worthy of $3.99.44 of 57 people found the following review helpful. Community is not everythingBy Tom GrayThis is yet another book on a New Urbanist idea.This one describes the idea of transit oriented communties. These are relatively dense planned communities that try to maintain what is seen as the essentials of small community life.The density and distribution of these communities make them amenable to public transport. However more emphasis is placed on the development of community. Shopping facilities are centralized and made accessible to pedestrians. Public buildings and public space like squares are made central to the life of the community. The public buildings are given distinguished architecture to show their importance to the community. The public park or square is placed at the hub of planned pedestrian traffic to provide a place for unplanned meetings and interactions.As it is this soert of community will probably work. The idea of the public square at a transportation crossroads as a means to creatre interaction is straight out of Bill Hilliers seminal work Space is the machine. With proper attention to the principles presented by Hillier; there is no reason why a community designed in the way advocated here cannot produce the types of interactions advocated within this book.However the book does not go far enough to truly identify what these principles are or even to state clearly and directly what basic principles are guiding the plans that it advocates. It would be possible to create developments that follow the plans described here that would work against the outcomes that it is advocating. Hilliers book; in its analysis of some modern housing estates based on similar goals; demosntrates this.Yet there is something fundamentally wrong with this book. It is a basic statement of architectural determinism. Traditional suburbs are blamed for all problems in society from environmental pollution to school shootings and possibly even to asteroid impacts causing mass extinctions. There seems to be nothing wrong in society that is not the fault of suburbs and that cannot be fixed by these pedestrian-based communities.The author acknowleges that the autonomy and privacy provided by the suburban form is attractive to many. He even states that his suggested community form is not antithetical to it. However following that one statement the remainder of the book is a jerimiad against suburban life. Privacy and autonomy references are replaced with descriptions of isolation and alienation.The book would be more convincing if it remained an advocacy for its desired form. There is no doubt that this form if designed properly can foster the close community life that many people find very attractive. However not all people are attracted to this sort of life. Many people prefer the social autonomy that is provided to them in suburbs. With modern communication mechanisms like the telephone; Email; automobile etc; they can maintain multiple social netowkrs each with the social distance that they find comfortable. They are not forced to interact with a neighbor that they do not care for simply because his residence is nearby.All in all this is a good book for its purpose. The unfortunate blathering about the short comings of suburbs distracts from its main purpsoe and weakens its argument. However many will find the small community life presented here very attractive.It is worth reading despite these handicaps.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy CustomerPretty good book