1st Edition
What's So Funny? Humor-Based Activities for Social Skill Development
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the AuthorIntroduction
Chapter 1 About This ProgramIntended AudienceIntended
ParticipantsBenefits of the ProgramResearch-Based Strategies
Chapter 2 Background InformationOrder of LessonsSocial-Emotional DevelopmentHumor DevelopmentHumor Use in Individuals With Developmental DisabilitiesTeaching Humor
Chapter 3 Physical Comedy: Face and BodyLesson 1: Funny FacesLesson 2: Funny Face ActingLesson 3: Funny Body
Chapter 4: Physical Comedy: Costumes and ImpressionsLesson 1: Funny CostumesLesson 2: Impressions
Chapter 5 Physical Comedy: SlapstickLesson 1: Introduction to SlapstickLesson 2: Messy Slapstick
Chapter 6 IncongruencyLesson 1: Funny AnimalsLesson 2: Funny PeopleLesson 3: Funny Sizes
Chapter 7: PrankLesson 1: Food PranksLesson 2: Water PranksLesson 3: Bug PranksLesson 4: Gross PranksLesson 5: Money Pranks
Chapter 8: Sound and Word PlayLesson 1: Sound EffectsLesson 2: Rhyming Words
Chapter 9: JokesLesson 1: Rhyming JokesLesson 2: Homophone JokesLesson 3: Silly Sound JokesLesson 4: Knock-Knock Jokes
Chapter 10: Three W Questions of Being Funny. 171Lesson 1: What Is Funny?Lesson 2: Who Can You Be Funny With?Lesson 3: When Can You Be Funny?
Index
Biography
Rachel Chaiet, MS, OTR/L is an occupational therapist from Bethel, New York who has worked with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities for over 10 years. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania in 2010. She has presented at multiple conferences for the American Occupational Therapy Association, American Speech–Language–Hearing Association, and American Massage Therapy Association alongside her colleagues on humor-based interventions, as well as other interventions to address social participation for individuals with developmental disabilities. She has also published articles in OT Advance and OT Practice on various interventions related to improving social participation for this population. In her spare time, she can be found “clowning around” with her own young daughter, Mikaia, and husband, Max.
