Acting makes young people with autism more resilient: ‘At first he didn’t dare order an apple juice, now he does’

How do you teach someone with autism to deal with unexpected things? Put him on stage and ask him to play a teddy bear. Improvisational theater makes young people with autism more resilient to the outside world, knows Saskia Maas, mother of participant Aidan. “At first he didn’t dare order apple juice, now he does.”

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