Making Meaningful Worlds: Role-Playing Subcultures and the Autism Spectrum

Investigating the effect of storytelling with Role Playing methods on communication and social skills of children with autism

Background: Autism spectrum disorder is the most commonly occurring growth disorder. A deficiency in social skills, interests, behaviour and repetitive and limited actions, and a deficiency in communication and social interactions are the hallmarks of autism. Materials and Methods: this research was a one-group semi-experimental study run by storytelling with a role playing method on studied u...

the analysis of the role of the speech acts theory in translating and dubbing hollywood films

از محوری ترین اثراتی که یک فیلم سینمایی ایجاد می کند دیالوگ هایی است که هنرپیش گان فیلم میگویند. به زعم یک فیلم ساز, یک شیوه متأثر نمودن مخاطب از اثر منظوره نیروی گفتارهای گوینده, مثل نیروی عاطفی, ترس آور, غم انگیز, هیجان انگیز و غیره, است. این مطالعه به بررسی این مسأله مبادرت کرده است که آیا نیروی فراگفتاری هنرپیش گان به مثابه ی اعمال گفتاری در پنج فیلم هالیوودی در نسخه های دوبله شده باز تولید...

Making Borders, Making Worlds

On a wintry night, sixty-year-old Gulya was preparing to cross the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan border.1 Although she had made this once simple journey countless times in her life, this would be her final and most dangerous attempt. The decision to undertake it had effectively been made for her by the recent leveling of the home in which she had lived with her husband for some forty years. It was dest...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and International Travel

The literature on international travellers with psychiatric disorders is limited. This perspective article highlights various travel-related aspects of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including its aetiological association with maternal migration, the difficulties faced by long-term travelers with autistic children, and the facilitation of international travel for autistic individuals by the tr...

5 Playing the Worlds of Prom Week