Creativity and Community Among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts Through Play and Performance

by Ted Hughes

This edited volume explores the roles of socially-channeled play and performance in the developmental trajectories of young people who fall on the autism spectrum. The contributors offer possibilities for channels of activity through which youth on the autism spectrum may find acceptance, affirmation, and kinship with others. Positive social updraft characterizes the social channels through which people of difference might be swept up into broader...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137547960
• ISBN13: 9781137547965
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.4"