Students with Asperger’s Syndrome Improve Social Skills Through Broadcast Program
Betty Ann Bowser Reports on PBS NewsHour’s Website
News has an agenda in Broomall, Pa., where students with Asperger’s syndrome ‘go live’ in their own broadcast each year. Their teachers say it’s one of the best ways for students to learn to speak clearly, work together, build confidence … and become celebrities all at once. Check out NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser’s report here: http://to.pbs.org/OecvU7.
Because students with this form of autism often have trouble with speaking clearly and working well with others, Asperger’s specialist Randi Rentz and Speech pathologist Kristen Dercole created the Action News 7 broadcast to teach their reporters to see the world from another angle.
“I think that reporters in general are really good role models for students as far as good speaking skills. We always talk about how to be on a newscast, you have to over-annunciate,” said Dercole.
At the moment, Action 7 is the only program of its kind in the nation, though Rentz believes it could work in any school.
PBS NewsHour previously covered autism-spectrum disorders and their increasing prevalence in an in-depth series, Autism Now, available on the PBS NewsHour website.
Press Release provided by NewsHour
Great program! Hopefully it will catch on in other areas too.
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This is just so awesome and does great things for the Asperger’s community!
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Isn’t that wonderful? Totally smiling now
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That is great!
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What an amazing program. It’s so nice to see unique and fun ways for children with aspergers to learn better skills.
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Very interesting!
What an amazing program!!
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That’s great! At the elementary school I used to work at the students would broadcast the announcements every morning. The students with autism would co-host, too. I always thought that was pretty cool.
This is awesome!
what a great way to work with the kids.
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Its a nice way to learn a lot of things watching the broadcast news..
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absolutely amazing!
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LOVE this! Thank you so much for sharing all that you do — I am learning so much from you.
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The worst thing about school starting is the homework. My child always begs me for help while I am working on my website on my laptop. Great article.
What a great program! Thanks for sharing.
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Awesome! He did a great job!
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I love hearing about these programs that are helping children on the spectrum!
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What a great program!
What an amazing program!
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What a wonderful program. KUDOS to PBS.
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That’s amazing
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Nice kind o program for the kids…I really appreciate it…
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Its such a wonderful kind of program I like hearing this kind of news..
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I love this idea and will be passing it on to local specialists I know here in Las Vegas!
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That’s awesome!
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This is an awesome program.
Love this.
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Thanks for posting a link to this article. I am the speech therapist at Worrall Elementary and we will be filming for this year’s edition of Action 7 next week. It was great to see all of the positive comments above:)