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What Autism Movement Therapy Does
Clip: Season 6 Episode 29 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Erica Matthews explains how movement can help people with autism build key skills.
Erica Matthews explains the work of the Autism and Movement Project and the role movement can play for people with autism and other special needs. She describes how structured activities can support motor skills, social development and self-regulation while helping participants better understand their bodies and interact with the world around them.
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A Shot of AG
What Autism Movement Therapy Does
Clip: Season 6 Episode 29 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Erica Matthews explains the work of the Autism and Movement Project and the role movement can play for people with autism and other special needs. She describes how structured activities can support motor skills, social development and self-regulation while helping participants better understand their bodies and interact with the world around them.
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- So just explain what it is.
- Yeah.
So AAMP is the Autism and Movement Project.
So what it is at the core base is Autism Movement Therapy, which is a dance program designed for individuals with autism and special needs, kind of to help the body realize where it is in space and kind of help with those social skills and motor skills.
- So I'm Gen X. You know, autism, we think "Rain Man," the movie.
- Yeah.
- I remember one of my first interviews doing the podcast, I interviewed a lady that had a autistic kid, worked for Monsanto.
And I learned so much from that interview, and probably a lot of things that made me kind of cringe a little bit 'cause I realized behaviors that I was doing that probably, you know, a person like yourself would go, "Really?"
But she talked about like going to a grocery store, and, you know, she'd have the iPad, right, because they need something to focus on, and people would actually say, you know, "Do you really need?
Can't your kid be without it for a while?"
- Right.
- So there's a lot of misunderstanding in society.
- Absolutely.
Yeah, there is.
It's a lot of thinking that we're babying them or that we are just keeping them occupied so that we can do something else, when really, there's a much deeper reason why they're using that for themselves to help self-regulate or to kinda help block out all the noise from the outside world.
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Clip: S6 Ep29 | 1m 43s | Erica Matthews gives an inside look at programs offered through the AAMP Studio. (1m 43s)
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Clip: S6 Ep29 | 56s | Erica Matthews shows how Brewin' Hope turns life skills into real job experience. (56s)
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