Improving the social-emotional well-being of a child with multiple developmental disabilities by incorporating the performative drama model into the learning process

Vidrih, Alenka (author), Grošelj, Tina (author)

Self-advocacy is an essential skill for effective and successful integration into the wider social environment and is important for psychological and physiological well-being. The Performative Drama Model Ars Vitae was trialled to improve students’ assertiveness and performance in real life. A 12-year-old boy with learning disabilities and multiple developmental disabilities, who had difficulties expressing himself and participating in class, was trained over a three-month period. The model was integrated into his lessons, with a particular focus on developing self-advocacy skills to help him express himself better and assert himself in groups. The activities carried out by the “actor” supported the development of his self-advocacy, classroom integration and communication skills, and improved his academic performance and general well-being.

• Language: English
• Keywords: arts therapy, autism, integrated learning, self-advocacy, Ars Vitae model
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 73–94
• Numbering: Vol. 15, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-170736
• UDC: 376:7.01
• ISSN on article: 2232-2647
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.2001
• COBISS.SI-ID: 241871107

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• Publication date in RUL: 14.07.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEPS journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies journal
• Publisher: Pedagoška fakulteta Univerze, Pedagoška fakulteta Univerze, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 2232-2647
• COBISS.SI-ID: 254029824

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Izboljšanje socialno-emocionalnega stanja otroka z več motnjami v razvoju, z vključitvijo performativnega dramskega modela v učni proces

Abstract

Samozagovorništvo je bistvena veščina za učinkovito in uspešno vključevanje v širše socialno okolje; pomembno je za psihološko in telesno blagostanje. Performativni dramski model Ars Vitae je bil preizkušen z namenom podpore razvoja asertivnosti in uspešnosti učenca v vsakdanjem življenju. Pri 12-letnem dečku z učnimi težavami in več motnjami v razvoju, ki je imel težave z izražanjem in s sodelovanjem v razredu, je obravnava po performativnem dramskem modelu potekala tri mesece. Dejavnosti po tem modelu so bile izvajane med poukom. Poudarek je bil na razvoju samozagovorniških veščin, da bi mu pomagali bolje izražati sebe in se uveljavljati v družbi. Posamezne aktivnosti, ki jih je deček izvajal kot »igralec« v performativnem procesu, so podpirale razvoj njegovih veščin samozagovorništva, vključenosti v razredu in komunikacijskih veščin ter izboljšale njegovo učno uspešnost in splošno počutje.

• Keywords: integrirano učenje, samozagovorništvo, performativni dramski mode model Ars Vitae, učne težave, motnje v razvoju, avtizem, umetnostna terapija