Pa. artists train educators to teach arts to students with autism

Some educators in Perry County, Pa., recently learned in a summer workshop how to teach visual and performing arts to students on the autism spectrum by incorporating more concrete, step-by-step instructions for class assignments and, sometimes, offering alternative methods for expression. "When you are teaching kids on the spectrum, never forget that they're fully present inside themselves but they present it differently on the outside," art teacher Shari Donath said. Perry County Times (New Bloomfield, Pa.) (7/30)  http://www.pennlive.com/perry-county-times/index.ssf/2013/07/local_artists_learn_ways_to_re.html