Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training - Sensing Shakespeare

Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training addresses some of the challenges met by acting students with dyslexia and highlights the abilities demonstrated by individuals with specific learning differences in actor training.

The book offers six tested teaching strategies, created from practical and theoretical research investigations with dyslexic acting students, using the methodologies of case study and action research. Utilizing Shakespeare''s text as a laboratory of practice and drawing directly from the voices and practical work of the dyslexic students themselves, the book explores:

• the stress caused by dyslexia and how the teacher might ameliorate it through changes in their practice
• the theories and discourse surrounding the label of dyslexia
• the visual, kinaesthetic, and multisensory processing preferences demonstrated by some acting students assessed as dyslexic
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