This project was created to improve 
communication skills and enhance social-emotional learning through theatre arts programming. 
 

•  A clearer understanding of personal strengths and needs
   

• The introduction of new ways to communicate personal needs
   

• The providing of tools to work through anxiety
   

• Development of trust and sense of acceptance

30-minute weekly classes
 

MOVEMENT:  Exercises in each session are focused on physical gestures, blocking, and movement with a  goal of helping the students better control their bodies inside & outside class.

VOICE: Vocal  exercises encourage students to practice vocal notes and tunes for songs, helping  with overall  communication skills.

ACTING: These exercises help with  remembering lines of dialogue and character creations with a goal to improve memory recall and processing time.

The future plan includes the
producing a musical, leveraging
the abilities, talents, and interests
of this program’s population which ranges in age from 19 to 78 and
whose participants include verbal/nonverbal, and full to limited mobility.

Although there are several programs across the country through which students with disabilities are engaged in theatre games, classes, activities, there is no program anywhere in which adults with disabilities are brough together to “mount a musical.”