Lois Holzman » UTube http://loisholzman.org Tue, 15 May 2012 12:53:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Autism, Asperger’s, Theatre and Play—Watch this TED Talk http://loisholzman.org/2012/01/autism-aspergers-theatre-and-play-watch-this-ted-talk/ http://loisholzman.org/2012/01/autism-aspergers-theatre-and-play-watch-this-ted-talk/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:35:46 +0000 loisholzman http://loisholzman.org/?p=1206 January 23, 2012

A huge thanks to my friend Tony Perone for alerting me to a recent TED Talk by Stephen Volan, “Approaching Autism Theatrically.” Diagnosed with Asperger’s as an adult, Stephen shares how he experiences himself in the world, at one point likening it to just about constant stage fright. His talk is lovely—funny, poignant, smart. He brings in the DSM-5, Second City, Virginia Spolin, his height (6’8″), play, improv, Shakespeare, as he tells of his journey to become a social player “on the stage that is all the world.”

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This might be a first — invoking the Zone of Proximal Development to sell a health club! I was doing a “Vygotsky” search on UTube and the first one to come up was an ad for getting fit, not on your own but with others –  Shedfast on UTube.

What do you think?

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