title: Autism, Art, and Accessibility to Theater.
abstract: Art has the ability to entertain and educate about many vital aspects of the human experience. Recently, innovative endeavors are providing greater accessibility to theatrical productions for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), prompting ethical questions about how accommodations to provide access to art and culture should be made, and for whom. This article uses an attributional model of stigma to explain potential differences in knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward people with mental illness. This social cognitive model also provides clues about how to spur social change through translational education, familiarization, and advocacy to permit greater access to art for people with disabilities.
authors.affiliation: Associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and an investigator with the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Center for Cognitive Medicine, and the director of the Kennedy Center's Social Emotional Neuroscience Endocrinology (SENSE) Lab.
authors.forename: Blythe A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Corbett
mesh_terms: D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder; D001321:Autistic Disorder; D003405:Creativity; D004324:Drama; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D058992:Social Participation; D057545:Social Stigma