Anecdotal Example Autism, Civic, and Life Skills Development Case of the Missing Surgeon RPG
we have others about how do
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you how to interface with doctors offices hospitals unravel the mystery clue and you have to go the department
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all these things all using role-playing games tabletop and or live action so that's autism spectrum it's it's
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teaching a lot of life skills the social skills happen automatically in order to get their fix of the game because they
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love the game they gravitate to the game very rapidly and as long as you have the patience and the directness a lot of
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them really appreciate if you do it in a kind way spelling it out so I will do things like he looks at you with an
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angry face mmm-hmm right and I give him an angry face and he sounds angry and he's really angry with you and you know
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for those who have have the the facial relation struggles for that if there's
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some conflict put pauses in the game because for those who are therapeutic groups everybody knows they're there for
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therapeutic reason so some of them may be volunteers or professionals or certified who we have what we call yet
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player archetypes and GM archetypes and so the play archetypes will play one of
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our people will play a troublesome player who's a rules lawyer or troublesome player who's a munchkin or
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what-have-you and they actually play that role to like train a GM how to deal with that or flip it you have a GM
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archetype who is you know the killer GM etc and that's to Train rock star dies yeah
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that's our catchphrase speaker which we do have to get to the rocks falling and ever really dying pretty students yes uh
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so yeah I know I feel like we could talk for it you know a very long time and yes
https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/population/diagnosis-autism-spectrum/first-prototype-of-tabletop-rpg-as-a-modality-for-therapeutic-educational-intervention
program plans using Therapeutic Recreation methodologies to achieve specific educational goals for this group. The participants responses to a leisure interests survey indicated that their primary interests are (both males and females): computers, comic books, video games, super heroes, science fiction, and fantasy.
One program I created is a 1940s “gum shoe” style, purely tabletop-based RPG mystery, to help the players learn how to look up and make use of local civic resources including: theaters, doctor's office's, clinics, hospitals, police stations, fire department, etc. This can potentially be built upon to transition to a LARP style as the participants gain knowledge, confidence, and competence in finding and using such resources.
Prototype of Tabletop RPG as a Modality for Therapeutic / Educational Intervention for ASD Youth & Adults to Develop Civic Resources Knowledge & Skills
This prototype was reviewed and play-tested by Professor Emily Messina, Director of the Therapeutic Recreation for Eastern Washington University.
A 1940s Gumshoe Detective-style mystery set in urban Chicago.
The ASD guardians would like Hawke Robinson to come to Tacoma to implement this program plan, but due to the logistics (he resides in Spokane Washington on the other side of the state), has not yet been able to implement this program. The PAVE group does not have a formal facility, they utilize churches and other ASD guardians' homes for some activities, but generally arrange to meet at facilities for activities periodically. This is one of the reasons why The RPG Research Trailer would be very useful in helping to actually implement programs such as this.
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