Description
Book SynopsisNow in a fully revised and updated second edition, this innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for individuals with special educational needs and disabilities.
Providing a highly accessible combination of theory and practice, the contributors to this book define their own approaches to inclusive storytelling, describing the principles and theory that underpin their practice, whilst never losing sight of the joy at the heart of their work. Topics include therapeutic storytelling; language and communication; interactive and multi-sensory storytelling; and technology. Each chapter includes top tips, and signposts further training for practitioners who want to start using stories in their own work, making this book a crucial and comprehensive guide to storytelling practice with diverse learners.
This new edition:
has been fully updated to reflect the way in which this field of storytelling has grown and developed
uses a broad range of chapters, structured in a way that guides the reader through the conceptualisation of a storytelling approach towards its practical application
includes an additional chapter, sharing the lived experiences of storytellers who identify as having a disability.
Full of inspiring ideas to be used with people of all ages and with a range of needs, this book will be an invaluable tool for education professionals, as well as therapists, youth workers, counsellors and theatre practitioners working in special education.
Trade Review"The book combines theory and practice and each chapter includes top tips, and signposts to further training for practitioners who want to start using stories in their own work. Several of the chapters have illustrations and include a ‘Try it yourself’ section, with practical advice.
There are many inspiring ideas that can be used with people of all ages and with a range of needs and there is a common thread running through the book of celebrating the universal appeal of this ancient art." - Mary Mountstephen, SEN Magazine
Table of ContentsForward Notes on Contributors Introduction Therapeutic Storytelling with Children in Need Feelings are Funny Things: Using Storytelling with Children Looked After and their Carers Healing Stories with Children at Risk: The Storybuilding™ Approach What Can Teachers Learn from the Stories Children Tell? Lis'n Tell: Live Inclusive Storytelling: Therapeutic Education Motivating Children and Adults to Listen and Tell Interactive Storytelling Speaking and Listening through Narrative Using Narratives to Enhance the Language, Communication and Social Participation of Children and Young People with Speech, Language, and Communication Needs Creative Use of Digital Storytelling Storytelling in Sign Language for Deaf Children Literature and Legends: Working with Diverse Abilities Storytelling with All Our Senses: Mehr-Sinn® Geschichten Multisensory Stories in Story Packs Storytelling with Nurturing Touch: The Story Massage Programme Rich Inclusion through Sensory Stories: Stories from Science Describing and Evaluating the Storytelling Experience: A Conceptual Framework Sensitive Stories: Tackling Challenges for People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities Through Multi-Sensory Storytelling Social Stories™ Storysharing® Personal Narratives for Identity and Community Personal Storytelling with Deaf Blind Individuals Personal Storytelling for Children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication Self-created Film & AAC Technology for Daily Storytelling Learning to Tell: Teaching Skills for Community Storytelling The Autistic Storyteller: Sharing the Experience of Otherness Tales from the Heart: Testimony from Storytellers with Learning Disabilities Appendix: Storytelling Organisations for Resources and Information Index
