Arts Workshops for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in contemporary U.S, Great Britain and some other countries

The purpose of this graduate project is to document the data on visual arts, music, dance/movement, theatre and arts workshops for children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in contemporary U.S, Great Britain and some other countries. This archival project will present a clear picture of the status and condition of arts workshops for children and youth with ASD at the present time. This project will offer a resource guide for people who are not familiar with this field, or people who are willing to create a similar program/workshop and people who are going to do a comparison study or related research. At the same time, it could be used as a handbook for autistic children and youth and their families who are seeking for help and/or auxiliary therapeutic treatment. This documentation project is based on the online material. All the data is collected from scholars' works, official websites, online articles, interviews and videos from the internet. This graduate project will not cover all the existing arts workshops for children and youth diagnosed with ASD around the world, but will mostly focus on U.S and Great Britain countries. Because of the language limitation, this project will not cover the arts workshop for children with ASD in the countries that do not use English unless it has enough information and sources in English or Chinese, which allow me to understand and form a complete description to it.