Wings to Fly: Bringing Theatre Arts to Students With Special Needs - Softcover

Bailey, Sally Dorothy

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9780933149588: Wings to Fly: Bringing Theatre Arts to Students With Special Needs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933149581 ISBN 13: 9780933149588

Publisher: Woodbine House, 1993

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Wings To Fly is a comprehensive nuts and bolts handbook which describes concrete, proven techniques and lesson plans to make drama accessible to people with disabilities of all ages. It is written for use by professionals in education, recreation, theatre, and therapy settings. The book covers creative drama, improvisational acting, puppetry, theatre production, and creating original scripts, providing specific adaptations for each situation as well as issues such as inclusion, using drama to teach academic subjects, physical accessibility, programmatic accessibility, behavior management, and effective team teaching techniques.

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About the Author:

Sally Dorothy Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT is a registered drama therapist, director, and playwright. Wings To Fly chronicles the program she created in 1988 for students with special needs as the Arts Access Director for the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts in Bethesda, MD. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Drama Therapy, Creative Drama, and Playwriting at Kansas State University.

Review:

An extremely welcome addition to the very sparse literature in this field...The author's considerable background in theatre, coupled with years of first-hand experience working with disabled participants make her particularly knowledgable. -- Hilary U. Cohen, "The Drama Theatre Teacher"

Sally Bailey's passionate, incisive, and insightful methods put her in the vanguard of what children's theatre for the twenty-first century must be: theatre that invites ALL children to go through the doors of their imaginations and unleash what's trapped inside. -- Mark Medoff, Tony Award Winner for Best Play, 1979, "Children of A Lesser God"

Sally Dorothy Bailey offers theater techniques to help children gain self-esteem, improve social skills, and explore new modes of self-expression, drawn primarily from her work with special needs children at the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts.

Wings To Fly will refuel the energy, creativity, and hope of all teachers and drama therapists who work with children. Bailey expresses her faith in human beings when she says, "You can do anything if you imagine it clearly enough and work on it hard enough" and she asserts that we, too, can summon courage to take leaps into the unknown, just as her students have done. Bailey's own words aptly describe her book, "It speaks to the human heart and soul in a direct, immediate and emotional way." Wings To Fly offers the joy and hope which allow us to soar, and the experience and techniques to ground us. -- Camilla Polhemus, RDT, "Dramascope"

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