{"id":3644,"date":"2020-05-19T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:06:38","slug":"imagining-autism-launches-online-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/05\/19\/imagining-autism-launches-online-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Autism launches online resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginingautism.org\/\">Imagining Autism<\/a>, a project originally created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/538\/shaughnessy-nicola\">Nicola Shaughnessy<\/a>, Professor of Performance, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/541\/trimingham-melissa\">Dr Melissa Trimingham<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, has recently launched a series of online resources.<\/p>\n<p>The online resources were developed in response to the needs of <a href=\"https:\/\/thebeacon.kent.sch.uk\/\">The Beacon<\/a>, a local school in Folkestone. that the team have been working closely with since 2017. The Beacon was due to enjoy access over two terms to Imagining Autism&#8217;s sensory pod, embedding Imagining Autism into the curriculum and teaching, but this was delayed due to COVID-19. Nevertheless the new <a href=\"https:\/\/imaginingautism.org\/online-resources\/\">Imagining Autism Online Resources<\/a> ensure that children, teachers and parents now have access at home to the Imagining Autism experience.<\/p>\n<p>Imagining Autism was initiated as a collaboration between the disciplines of drama and psychology that sought to address the differences in communication, social interaction and imagination in autistic children. Funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ahrc.ukri.org\/\">Arts and Humanities Research Council<\/a> (2011-2014) and based at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\">University of Kent<\/a>, Imagining Autism worked with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\">School of Arts<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/tizard\">Tizard Centre<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\">School of Psychology<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/\">Gulbenkian Theatre<\/a>. The project has since developed into researching and celebrating autistic creativity and imagination as a source of well being and learning, and establishing a substantial public engagement programme.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/imaginingautism.org\/online-resources\/access-online-resources\/\">https:\/\/imaginingautism.org\/online-resources\/access-online-resources\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagining Autism, a project originally created by Nicola Shaughnessy, Professor of Performance, and Dr Melissa Trimingham, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, has recently launched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/05\/19\/imagining-autism-launches-online-resources\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,50018,168428,124,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}