AÑO
2015
CATEGORÍA
Aprendizaje y Juego
OBJETIVOS
Educación de calidad
PAL. CLAVE
autism, Impulses, Tool
PAÍS
Netherlands
CRÉDITOS
Anne Ligtenberg
LINK
http://www.anneligtenberg.nl/autism.html
AUTISM – PLAYING WITH IMPULSES
A tool to explain autism in an intuitive way.
People with autism have trouble filtering impulses; the world remains a jumbled mass of competing information. They strive to create order. It can be hard enough for others to understand what autism entails – let alone children. Anne Ligtenberg discovered that children of autistic parents often feel guilty for causing flare-ups, even though it’s not their fault. She designed a game to help them identify with their parent’s behaviour. By arranging decorated wooden blocks into different patterns, kids can mirror the parent’s need for order. To succeed, they have to single out certain motifs and ignore others, just as autistics must focus on one thing at a time to function.