Mime in language therapy and clinician training.
A speech pathologist developed a program with language goals which included spontaneous communication, focus, attention span, auditory memory, receptive and expressive vocabulary, and concepts such as body image, spatial relationships, and same and different polarities. The services of a professional mime were used to translate these goals into mimetic activities and to perform the activities in group sessions with the children. In addition, the mime taught the speech clinicians some simple mimetic activities. The subjects were five children with mental retardation, language delay, lack of spontaneity, short attention span and very poor visual and auditory memory. The results suggested increase in spontaneity and attention span in all the children and a facility to remember the illusions depicted for them by the mime. The experience with the mime training for clinicians was also positive.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000628:therapy; D007697:Kinesics; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States