The two-week workshop culminated in an improv performance in front of a crowd at Pearson Hall. (Ashley Barnas | UDaily)

UD speech-language pathology graduate students recently held an improv acting workshop, which they created as a capstone project, for 16- to 21-year-olds with autism. Their goal was to provide a fun, low-stress environment in which participants could develop communication skills like making eye contact and responding to nonverbal cues. A professor in UD’s Communication Sciences and Disorders program says the plan is to offer the workshop again next year.