Papers by Abigail Jackson
Throughout this paper the key themes of Empathy, Mimicry and Touch will be contextualised through... more Throughout this paper the key themes of Empathy, Mimicry and Touch will be contextualised through research supporting a project that concerns itself with achieving a critical understanding of the placement of expressive movement in the development of a creative intervention for autistic children. The research presented reflects on literature connected to psychology and the study of childhood development to address the concerns around complex empathetic understanding for those on the autistic spectrum. This literature will also give comprehension for the placement of mimicry in the development of empathetic relationships, and how mimicry is used throughout the process of childhood development, and language acquisition. The latter part of the discussion will focus on the position many UK schools take on the inclusion of touch between adult and child within their institutions and the argument for the need of touch when facilitating and supporting the development of social interactions. Throughout the conversation on touch there will be reflections on how touch is used in creative environments such as Dance and Movement training, and how we might draw on this use of touch in a creative setting for children who exhibit social and communicative impairments. The wider conversation here is concerned with the use of technology in the school setting and the effect of using technologies that are often designed for the conventional, solo, user, when social skills are underdeveloped, as in the cause of autistic children. This will be contextualised within the discussion of Empathy, Mimicry and Touch to comprehend how a more collaborative and creative approach to the use of technology in a school environment for the autistic child, might help, not hinder, social experiences and communicative engagement.
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