Date Available

5-6-2014

Year of Publication

2014

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Education (MAE)

Document Type

Master's Thesis

College

Fine Arts

Department/School/Program

Art and Visual Studies

First Advisor

Dr. Allan G. Richards

Abstract

Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders often do not respond to common pedagogical strategies and traditional in vivo teaching approaches. From my observations, students diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders learn best when material is presented through technology. Based on the information found in the literature review and personal observations from working with students with special needs, when students with Autism Spectrum Disorders receive video based instruction by watching recorded art lessons, they may learn to develop artistic skills and retain more art content knowledge with greater success than through traditional teaching methods. The purpose of this research study is to test the hypothesis that video based teaching methods can improve the learning of students with autism in a series of art lessons.

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