Dr. Dean Blevins, Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, shares about the changes that have taken place in children's ministry over the last several years, and how we are entering a new period in how we think about children. In addition, Dr. Blevins discusses the work of Nurt...

Dr. Dean Blevins, Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, briefly discusses three phases in children's spirituality, and how our thinking is changing.

Dr. Dean Blevins, Nurturing Care Director and Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, explains what is meant by the phrase Maker's Space as this relates to the work of Nurturing Care with Children in Worship and Prayer.

Dr. Dean Blevins, Nurturing Care Director and Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship, shares about the latest Maker's Space event for Nurturing Care with Children in Worship and Prayer, which took place in September 2024.

Stephanie L. Barton, Med CCC-SLP serves as a Speech Language Pathologist helping individuals with Autism and Selective Mutism reach their full potential. She is a practitioner and advocate for providing access to communication utilizing Spelling to Communicate Methodology to those who suffer from...

Stephanie Answer co-founded New Community Church with her husband Daryl. In this clip, Stephanie discusses the ways her son and New Community Church have grown together and integrated an understanding of autism into how they worship.

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Stephanie Answer serves as a co-minister with her husband Daryl Answer at New Community Church, a gathering of spiritual families providing holistic ministry in the Ivanhoe neighborhood of Kansas City. https://www.newcommunitykc.church/

Stephanie also champions the use of Spelling 2 Communicate...

Speech Pathologist and S2C practitioner Stephanie Barton joins with Stephanie Answer, a parent and ministry team leader at New Community Church, to explain how to best understand both nonspeaking and minimally speaking autistic children. Barton utilizes a new method, Spelling 2 Communicate (S2C),...

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kelly Lee, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Camp Encourage, and Kris Mitchell, LMFT, with the Joshua Center for Neurological on What is Autism.

Kelly Lee co-founded Camp Encourage in 2007 due to the community expressing a dire need for a quality overnight camp opp...

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kris Mitchell, LMFT, with the Joshua Center for Neurological Disorders and Kelly Lee, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Camp Encourage

Kris Mitchell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked with children since 1992 in various capacities in both ch...

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kelly Lee, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Camp Encourage, and Kris Mitchell, LMFT, with the Joshua Center for Neurological on Barriers to Care.

Kelly Lee co-founded Camp Encourage in 2007 due to the community expressing a dire need for a quality overnight camp o...

A conversation with Kris Mitchell and Kelly Lee on how the local church can practically engage children with autism.

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Kelly Lee.

Kelly Lee co-founded Camp Encourage in 2007 due to the community expressing a dire need for a quality overnight camp opportunity for autistic children and due to their leadership in a similar camp in the Kansas City area.

Kelly received an undergraduate de...

Interview with Kris Mitchell (Joshua Center for Neurological Disorders) about autism.

Kris is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked with children since 1992 in various capacities in both church and clinical settings. He has overseen programming and events that provided children...

In this first session, Dr. van Ommen oriented the audience to the major themes of his most recent book Autism and Worship: A Liturgical Theology.

Dr. van Ommen noted that autistic children are 50-70% less likely to attend religious services than others in their age groups. This statistic merely ...

The second session of our NTS Nurturing Care/KC initiative included a presentation by Dr. Léon van Omme: Non- and Minimally-Speaking Autistic People in Church.

Beginning with a method of having minimally speaking autistic participants indicate via photos what they thought was important in the ch...

Dr. Dean Blevins interviews Armand Léon van Ommen on his book "Autism and Worship: A Liturgical Theology" in connection with the Nurturing Care grant.

In Autism and Worship, Armand Léon van Ommen offers an in-depth analysis of the absence and ignoring of, but also the presence of, autistic peopl...