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  2. Category:Plays and musicals about disability - Wikipedia

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    W. Wait Until Dark. The Who's Tommy. Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play) Categories: Works about disability. Plays by topic. Musicals by topic. Disability in the arts.

  3. The Miracle Worker (play) - Wikipedia

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    The Miracle Worker is a three-act play by William Gibson adapted from his 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name. It was based on Helen Keller 's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life . The play's title was inspired by a Mark Twain quote: "Helen is a miracle, and Miss Sullivan is the miracle worker".

  4. Taare Zameen Par - Wikipedia

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    Plot Ishaan Awasthi is an 8-year-old boy living in Mumbai, who has trouble following school, though he is assumed by all to hate learning and assumed to be a troublemaker, and is belittled for it. He has repeated the 3rd standard from the previous year due to his failures. His imagination, creativity, and talent for art and painting are often disregarded. His father, Nandkishore, is a ...

  5. Behavioral script - Wikipedia

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    Some applied behavior analysts even use scripts to train new skills and 20 years of research supports script use as an effective way to build new language, social, and activity routines for adults and children with developmental disabilities. With language scripts fading, efforts are being made in an attempt to help the scripts recombine in ...

  6. Make believe - Wikipedia

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    Make believe. Make believe, also known as pretend play or imaginative play, is a loosely structured form of play that generally includes role-play, object substitution and nonliteral behavior. [1] What separates play from other daily activities is its fun and creative aspect rather than being an action performed for the sake of survival or ...

  7. No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia

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    Most students with mild disabilities or physical disabilities take the same test as non-disabled students. In addition to not requiring 5% of students to be assessed at all, regulations let schools use alternate assessments to declare up to 1% of all students proficient for the purposes of the Act. [82]

  8. Role-playing - Wikipedia

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    Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:

  9. Theatre in education - Wikipedia

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    Theatre in education (TIE), originating in Britain in 1965, is the use of theatre for purposes beyond entertainment. It involves trained actors/educators performing for students or communities, with the intention of changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour. [1] [2] Canadian academics Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton describe TIE as ...