Nurturing Care
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Engaging Autism in the Church
A conversation with Kris Mitchell and Kelly Lee on how the local church can practically engage children with autism.
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Session 1: The Absence and Ignoring of Autistic People in Church
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 ...
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Session 2: Non- And Minimally-Speaking Autistic People in Church
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...
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Kelly Lee - Full Interview
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...
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Nurturing Care and Barriers to Care
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...
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Myths About Autism
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...
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Kris Mitchell - Full Interview
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...
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Autism and Worship
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...
