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What is Central Coherence

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Sustaining Creativity and the Arts in the Digital Age
A term describing the ability to see the big picture , looking for and drawing out overall meaning from a mass of, and often at the expense of, smaller details. In contrast, weak central coherence refers to the tendency in ASD to attend to and remember details rather than global form or meaning. The term central coherence was coined by Uta Frith in her influential 1989 book Autism: Explaining the Enigma .
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Creativity and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 34
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7840-7.ch009
Abstract
This chapter considers the theme of creativity in people with autism. It briefly investigates the relationship between autism and creativity, focusing on geniuses and autism. Following from this, an educational experience designed to enhance the socio-communicative skills of autistic people is presented and discussed. This experience demonstrates that a creative approach based on social stories, drama, and programmable toy robots is not only able to stimulate the communication skills of autistic people, but also their creativity. From the experience, it also emerged that the combined use of digital technologies, programmable toy robots, and creative practices based on social stories and drama could open new perspectives for therapeutic interventions in the autism scope.
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