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Session 1: Taking Care of the Village: Prayerful Caretaking as an Act of Worship
Dr. Amy Jacober presents during Nurturing Care’s Day of Learning. Dr. Jacober, practical theologian and author of Redefining Perfect: Theology in Dialog with Disability, provides an overview of living out worship daily with autistic children. Jacober includes a basic description of autism as unde...
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Session 2: The Village Takes Care: Embodied Worship and Prayer for All
Dr. Amy Jacober continues her presentation for Nurturing Care’s day of Learning. Jacober frames her presentation through the Shema and continues with an adaptive model of faith formation that can inform worship and prayer practices with autistic children.
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Communicating Hospitality to Parents of Autistic Kids
Dr. Amy Jacober encourages churches to relentlessly communicate hospitality to parents, particularly lead pastors who have an important role supporting the effort.
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Working with Active Autistic Kids
Dr. Amy Jacober offers key insights to help autistic children adapt to general children’s ministry environments.
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Bringing Our “Very” to Worship
Dr. Amy Jacober uses the Shema to explore how every autistic child can bring their very neurodiversity to worship.
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Encouraging Neurodivergent Leaders
Dr. Amy Jacober offers insights for empowering neurodiverse children and youth to express leadership in the church