Community Arts
ACHF Arts Access
This project is anticipated to serve 40-50 families of children (ages 2-5) with autism diagnoses, and involve 2-5 teaching artists from the Children's Theatre Company. Participating families will learn how to leverage the art of storytelling and imagination-play to engage with their child with autism, and to help that child mitigate common social and creative deficiencies that are typical of autism. The quantitative evaluation component of the project will include response to the registration opportunity, and actual attendance vs. registration numbers. The qualitative evaluation of the project will come from evaluations completed by participating families, as well as an evaluation by the teaching artists to provide feedback on the impact of the project and how useful the content is in helping families leverage creative storytelling and imagination-play with their young child with autism.
Twenty families including children on the autism spectrum, parents and siblings attended over four segments of classes delivered in 2015. 95% of families reported positive experience that they could generalize to their home and family environment. 80% indicated that this was their first family arts experience, and that they would be interested in pursuing further program if it were available.
Other, local or private