Game Design & Employment Skills Workshops (2023)

a summer game design program and research project for and about autistic youth

Soft Chaos was chosen by a research group headed by Kristen Gillespie to collaborate with Tech Kids Unlimited to help improve on existing neurodiversity-affirming summer workshops for Autistic & AuDHD students.

Our role was to design and lead two thirteen-day workshops about game design, self-advocacy, and job skills for a group of around twenty autistic students with a broad range of ages and experiences, all while facilitating the collection of research data about the program and applying neurodiversity-affirming principles to our teaching practices.

For a full case study about our work on this project, visit the Soft Chaos website here.

This client work was performed by Soft Chaos Cooperative for Kristen Gillespie’s research group with funding from NSF.

JESS’S PROJECT ROLES

Curriculum Designer
Narrative Design Workshop Leader
Lead Teacher
Co-designer
Co-researcher