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Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare / Edition 1
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Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare / Edition 1
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Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare / Edition 1
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addresses some of the challenges met by acting students with dyslexia and highlights the abilities demonstrated by individuals with specific learning differences in actor training.
- the stress caused by dyslexia and how the teacher might ameliorate it through changes in their practice
- the theories and discourse surrounding the label of dyslexia
- the visual, kinaesthetic, and multisensory processing preferences demonstrated by some acting students assessed as dyslexic
- acting approaches for engaging with Shakespeare’s language, enabling those with dyslexia to develop their authentic voice and abilities
- a grounding of the words and the meaning of the text through embodied cognition, spatial awareness, and epistemic tools
- Stanislavski’s method of
- units and actions
- and how it can benefit and obstruct the student with dyslexia when working on Shakespeare
- Interpretive Mnemonics