Welcome to Why Not Me, the World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mayan.

Broadcasting from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.

Join us as our guests tell us their stories.

Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry.

Real life people who will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.

Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance, and a better understanding

for autism around the world.

Hi, I'm Tony Mantor. Welcome to Why Not Me the World.

Joining us today is Dr. Blythe Corbett. She is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

She's here to discuss Sense Theater, a peer-mediated theater-based intervention that has contributed to significant improvements in social functioning in individuals with autism.

It's a pleasure to have her here. So thanks for joining us.

I'm really excited to be here.

Oh, it's my pleasure. So tell us a little bit about yourself and what you're doing for the autistic community.

So it's wonderful to be here. So I am a professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. I have had a privilege of working with children

and adults with autism for nearly 30 years.

And I work with them and my life is enriched by them in many ways.

So I am a clinician specifically, a pediatric neurosychologist.

I'm also a researcher, so I have several scientific

endeavors. And then I also run a nonprofit. I started a theater program for individuals with

autism spectrum disorder. And I think that's especially what we probably want to talk about today.

It's called Sense Theater.

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