Every Saturday morning since my group and I started going to the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research, I wake up and think to myself, ‘It’s nine o’clock in the morning on a Saturday. I should be sleeping.’ But then I arrive at the Burkhart Center, walk in the door, set up my speaker and start playing music while everyone starts to trickle in before we start at ten. As soon as the music starts and the kids start to arrive, I feel my energy level increase by a thousand. That’s when I remember why I love going to the Burkhart Center every Saturday morning. It truly makes my day. I never leave in a bad mood. I may arrive where my spirits are low but when I leave the center, I’m full of energy and I’m filled with pure joy.
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Some found it easier to draw while others felt more comfortable dancing. For most of the students, music really resonated with them so they felt more relaxed in that element. Even if they didn’t dance, just listening to the music put them at ease and created a more relaxing environment. We encourage each student to at least try everything because there was a chance that they would actually enjoy what we were doing for expression that day. Nine times out of ten, that was the case.
The last few weeks, we incorporated what’s known as Playback Theatre into our Check-Ins. This improvisational style of theatre is where we ask audience members for stories of their lives and then the actors act those stories for that audience member. These stories could be as simple as telling us what they did during the week or as complicated as recounting a fight they had with their family. This allowed the kids to share something about themselves and to express how they felt about it. My peers and I would then enact the events or feelings of that audience member’s
This last …show more content…
Some found it easier to draw while others felt more comfortable dancing. For most of the students, music really resonated with them so they felt more relaxed in that element. Even if they didn’t dance, just listening to the music put them at ease and created a more relaxing environment. We encourage each student to at least try everything because there was a chance that they would actually enjoy what we were doing for expression that day. Nine times out of ten, that was the case.
The last few weeks, we incorporated what’s known as Playback Theatre into our Check-Ins. This improvisational style of theatre is where we ask audience members for stories of their lives and then the actors act those stories for that audience member. These stories could be as simple as telling us what they did during the week or as complicated as recounting a fight they had with their family. This allowed the kids to share something about themselves and to express how they felt about it. My peers and I would then enact the events or feelings of that audience member’s