The first book to make literature accessible to people with learning disabilities, Odyssey Now is a dramatisation of the story of Odysseus through a variety of interactive games for developing communication skills and as a means of implementing a multi-sensory approach. It is designed particularly to include people who have profound, severe or multiple learning disabilites, but it can be used or adapted for any group of adults and children who have communication problems. Suitable for use in schools, colleges, social education centres or the home, it can also be used in mixed ability groups and to promote integration between groups with special needs and non-disabled people.Each interactive game includes: suggestions for suitable music, pictures, colours and other resources to accompany the gamea storylineguidelines for staff membersa summary of the purpose of the gamesuggestions for adapting the game for people with visual impairments.Included with the games are advice on organising such a programme, suggestions for record-keeping and tips for adapting the games.
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The first book to make literature accessible to people with learning disabilities, Odyssey Now is a dramatisation of the story of Odysseus through a variety of interactive games for developing communication skills and as a means of implementing a multi-sensory approach. It is designed particularly to include people who have learning disabilites.
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1 Introduction. 2 Activities List of Resources, Setting Off, Winding Down, Cyclops, Circe, Hades, Sirens, Calypso, Nausicaa, Ithaca3 The Communication Framework. 4 Multisensory Presentations. 5 Record-Keeping. 6 Linking with the National Curriculum. References.
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Odyssey Now is an excellent handbook, designed for practical use by drama group facilitators working principally with people with profound, severe and multiple learning difficulties. The material it contains though can be adapted to meet the needs of people of all age ranges and could be suitably used with mixed ability groups or with people experiencing mental health problems. The range of settings in which the ideas put forward in this book would be appropriate includes schools, hospitals, day centres, adult education classees and formal therapy groups ... This book is literally packed with lively and innovative suggestions as to how a particular myth can be used to enhance the communication skills of people with special needs.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781853023156
Publisert
1996-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Vekt
292 gr
Høyde
296 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Dybde
6 mm
Aldersnivå
00, ES, XT, P, G, 04, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
92

Biographical note

Nicola Grove is an English teacher turned speech and language therapist, who works with children and adults who have learning disabilities. She currently lectures at the Department of Language and Communication Science, City University. Keith Park is a teacher of pupils with multi-sensory impairments. He works for SENSE, the National Deaf-Blind Rubella Association, in Greenwich and Lewisham. He uses storytelling and drama extensively in his work. Nicola and Keith also co-authored Social Cognition Through Drama and Literature for People with Learning Disabilities