Back to school: Supporting neuro-divergent students through LARP

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Neurodivergent students learn, think, and process information differently than their neurotypical peers. Because of this, they often face unique challenges in the school setting. Students may struggle with executive functioning skills, typical social and communication skills and have sensory processing difficulties. As a result, they may be more likely to experience anxiety, depression, and many other mental health crises - resulting in a difficult education in which they won't receive the grades or social experience that they could achieve. This programme uses the Østerskov Efterskole school in Denmark as a case study to determine whether their revolutionary LARP (Live Action Role Play) teaching techniques could aid the education of every neurodiverse pupil.

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0:00.0	In our restless world, the news never stops.
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0:20.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:24.0	I'm Sarah Lynn Bowman and I'll be asking whether LARP
0:27.0	or live-action roleplaying could be one key
0:29.0	to addressing unique individual educational needs
0:32.0	for students across the globe.
0:34.0	We've been using this treatment for a while.
0:36.0	Surely it's really effective.
0:38.0	I mean, look at these patients. They are thriving.
0:41.0	Yes.
0:42.0	What you're hearing is a LARP, a live-action role-playing game,
0:45.0	but with a difference.
0:46.0	It's going very well.
0:47.0	We're truly developing in size.
0:49.0	It is right. Look at these people.
0:52.0	The way it goes straight to their minds
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