Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago Creative Arts Therapies Theses Thesis & Capstone Collection 8-10-2018 A Dance/Movement Therapist's Perspective on Self-Regulation With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability Nicole Louise Anderson Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/theses_dmt Part of the Dance Movement Therapy Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Anderson, Nicole Louise, "A Dance/Movement Therapist's Perspective on Self-Regulation With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability" (2018). Creative Arts Therapies Theses. 103. https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/theses_dmt/103 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Thesis & Capstone Collection at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Creative Arts Therapies Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPIST’S PERSPECTIVE ON SELF-REGULATION WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY Nicole Louise Anderson Thesis submitted to the faculty of Columbia College Chicago in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling Department of Creative Arts Therapies August 2018 Committee: Susan Imus, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GL-CMA Chair, Creative Arts Therapies Laura Downey, EdD, BC-DMT, LPC, GL-CMA Research Coordinator Jessica Young, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GL-CMA Thesis Advisor Nicole Zanon-Tocke, MA, LCPC, NCC Reader Abstract This clinical case study explores my understanding of self-regulation and the impact it had on my clinical decision-making while in dance/movement therapy (DMT) sessions with a client diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID).