How I create creativity (1): Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Author: Keith Park
Magazine issue: Winter 09
Page numbers: 23-25
Date: 30 November 2009
URL: /content/files/SLTiPWin09KPark.pdf
Keith Park is well-known as an advisory teacher and the person behind interactive storytelling, an approach which crosses disciplines of teaching, speech and language therapy and drama. His workshops for children with severe and profound learning disabilities are increasingly emphasising performances in community settings. In this article Keith unpicks the way that his role constantly evolves, influenced by chance remarks, opportunities and contacts. For him, the most rewarding aspect is when the young people he works with take an idea and run with it in unanticipated ways, as demonstrated by one pupil, PJ.