For digital, visual materials to use for teletherapy and in person therapy, visit our store on https://socialtheatre.org/shop-social-theatre/ Characters: Icegirl Dr. Evil Narrator Wolfboy Setting: School+Lair under the school Narrator: Welcome to super-hero school. Today we are observing wolfboy and icegirl’s …
Remote Control Improv
Original by Social Theatre™ Use a remote control for perspective taking, joint attention, and response to play. One person holds remote control, the other person reacts to the remote. If the person holding the remote is only pushing buttons, why …
Feelings Wave
For digital, visual materials to use for teletherapy and in person therapy, visit our store on https://socialtheatre.org/shop-social-theatre/ To demonstrate a range of one feeling, have all of your participants line up in one line, then turn to face the leader. …
Narrator Part and analysis of real life
Having students practice the narrator part in Social Theatre(TM) is essential in being able to practice analyzing a situation. When writing the narrator part, participants are analyzing the situation and coming up with questions they can ask during a performance. …
Anxiety and Social Skills? Chicken or Egg?
For some, the struggle of anxiety feeds into the struggle with social skills. For others, the struggle of social skills feed into anxiety. For many, it’s hard to differentiate which came first, anxiety or social skills? Or, the chicken or …
Free Association and “Stop Chasing Me!”
For digital, visual materials to use for teletherapy and in person therapy, visit our store on https://socialtheatre.org/shop-social-theatre/ Brainstorming IS the process of Free Association, if the environment is set up to be open and accepting. In this skit, one of …
Deleted Movie Scenes and accepting others ideas
For digital, visual materials to use for teletherapy and in person therapy, visit our store on https://socialtheatre.org/shop-social-theatre/ Through the collaborative play-writing process, participants often become stuck on their own ideas and have difficulty accepting other ideas. Showing participants deleted scenes …
Magic Perspectives
Magic perspectives Teaching a child how to do a magic trick not only allows them to practice social skills, but also can teach perspectives of others. Moreover, students can learn the importance of secrets and when secrets are important to …
Turning a serious topic into a humorous, teachable lesson
At the Social Thinking Provider’s Conference 2016, I was asked how we can make the brainstorm of certain topics humorous, such as someone being alone at lunch. Given more thought, I realized the language to get there is……… ……..ask what …
Brainstorming to play:Wanna Hang Out?
The process of script writing begins by asking the participants two questions: What do you feel is important for children your age to learn? What might be an awkward or embarrassing moment? Use ideas together in a play, Wanna Hang …