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“Say Who You Are, Play Who You Are”: Improvisation as Pedagogy for Youth with Physical and Developmental Challenges

Melissa Walker

Published: 2009-06-01

A piece describing the ongoing 'Play Who You Are' collaborative outreach project for youth with disabilities involving ICASP, KidsAbility, and other community partners. The author reflects on her experience of working with the project and on her interviews with participants to present several tenets of an evolving pedagogy of improvisation.

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...partly because I know that’s the only way that we could solve a creative problem [using improvisation with children ranging in abilities] and what doesn’t work is trying to impose a template on the students who are not able to respond to that template.

– Pauline Oliveros (in working with Abilities First)