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ANATOMY SOCIAL: Volume 3AWEtiszm: Happy Happy Joy Joy
Joy Becker RN BSN MPH©
JDB ASSOCIATES CONSULTING LTD.
joy@JDBassociates.ca
We cry for lots of reasons: sadness, pain, fear…and happiness. When
was the last time you shed tears of joy?
Scenario The client will be referred to as She or Her
• She joins the “Girl Talk” group after school for the fourth time.
• She knows the other three girls, they go to the same alternate school
• She is sixteen years old, Her neuro-typical peers are 14 years old with mild learning disabilities that hinder their learning.
Assessment
• She has autism. • She’s non-verbal, calm, cheerful, creative, and
fashionable.• She draws the most beautiful pictures and
enjoys comedy. • She laughs at appropriate times when things
are funny to others around Her.
Foundational Concepts
• As we move through the foundational concepts of emotions, public/private, CIRCLES, we stumble onto Session Four.
• I notice she likes to draw
• The characters have no faces. That part of her sketch is always blank.
Intuition
• Something in me says, “She doesn’t need to see my face, that’s just distracting her.”
• I come to Session Four with props for a puppet show - picked up from the local Dollarama and the education store.
Puppets
Puppets/Dolls
Visuals and Props
•I use the puppets and anatomically correct dolls to demonstrate some of the obvious female changes associated with puberty
Small Group/Peers
• Through the puppet theatre we are using finger puppets to exchange information with each other.
• I am behind the puppet theatre and the finger puppet is the character being manipulated by my voice.
• There are four girls in the audience.
Inclusion• I am reading the back of
the “Changes in You” teaching card which is totally covering my face
• I am interjecting questions from my puppet to the other puppets the girls are holding
• Participation is high• She is participating even
when She can’t find her words.
Connecting
• The next few pictures in the Changes in You: Puberty series talk about menstruation and feminine hygiene.
• My right hand puppet calls out Her name as I raise my right hand.
Puppet to Puppet
• I use the Changes in You teaching card to cover my face
• As I read the back of the teaching card my animated finger puppet keeps the teens engaged
• She looks up at the puppet on her right hand that is now raised.
Space to Communicate
• For so many times She has raised Her hand with the puppet pointed at my puppet and tried to say words………………………………………/
• I made sure we waited until She signaled us to let us know She had completed her turn to talk (with a nod) before we moved on
Delayed Processing Time
• Then one time my puppet asks Her puppet, “What is this?”
• My puppet picks up an unused, slender, applicator-free tampon
• There is silence. Her puppet and my puppet stare at each other as my puppet continues to hold on to the tampon.
First Words
• Then her puppet says, “A tampon.”
• My puppet says, “Where does it go?”Her puppet says, “In the vagina.”
• I stop in amazement and speechless.
Peer Support
• Her supportive peers cheer and clap to encourage her.
• “You spoke, you used your words. Way to go!!” they say with the ‘glee’ of teen girls
• I look at Her and Her peers with a big toothy grin. I notice a tear trickling down my face.
Expressing Emotions: Happy
• I’m so glad we talked about this emotion (Tears of Joy) in Session One
• Now I know She will not be confused by my tears and think something is wrong.
Connecting the Dots
• Its just that this is the first time I have ever seen Her put one or more words together and speak out loud in a crowd
• Here I am witnessing the moment when all the dots connect and She speaks the answers to the two questions, out loud, in a group setting, and on cue.
The Future
• I cry tears of Joy.• I share the moment
with Her grandma after the session
• The grandma responds with Tears of Joy also.
• A new future is ahead of us.
Contact Information
• Joy Becker RN BSN, JDB Associates Consulting Ltd.
• Website: www.JDBassociates.ca
• Blog: http://jdbassociates.ca/webinar/• Facebook:
www.facebook.com/joybecker.anatomysocial• Phone: 778.300.5647• Email: joy@jdbassociates.ca
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