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The following programs are offered either as a series of workshops or as singular sessions.
 
 
        Disability Awareness
 


This program uses the drama techniques of role-play and improvisation to impart awareness and appropriateness when interacting with a person with a disability. Participants are placed in a drama scenario with a person with a disability. This program is designed to cover one specific disability group per workshop, not a generic disability overview. 90 minutes per session minimum.
 

 
        Professional development
 


These workshops are designed with respect to the request being made and are appropriate for teachers, teacher assistants, paraprofessionals, counselors, arts coordinators and administrators.

Examples of workshops include:

  • Learning Standards for the arts;
  • Incorporating arts into the classroom;
  • Using dramatic arts to enhance core academic subjects;
  • Working with youth in special education and general education together, and
  • Working with a teaching artist as a partner.

 
 
        Parent Workshops
 


These workshops are designed with respect to the request being made and are most appropriate for parents of youth in any of our youth drama programs, but can be beneficial to any parent. Workshop topics can include:

  • Incorporating the arts at home;
  • Communicating with your children;
  • The arts for socialization
 
        Creative Drama
 


A professional theater teaching artist guides adults to create, express, and imagine. Theater games, improvisation and use of familiar stories are dramatized for the process of creation of drama rather than performance.

Simple and suggested costume and prop pieces are often used to spark creativity, building characters and stories. Mime, clowning, poetry, literature, mask-making and dance may also be incorporated. Maximum group size is 20. 60 minutes per session minimum. Goals are either focused on the adult creativity or with the intention of imparting skills to use with youth.
 

 
        Sign Language*
 


Students meet for 60-90 minutes with a deaf or hearing instructor fluent in American Sign Language. They will learn the basics of facial expression, the alphabet, numbers, colors, animals, questions and general beginning conversation and work-related vocabulary are introduced. Designed to meet once weekly for 10 weeks. A minimum of 5 students must be interested in order to form a class, maximum 20.

*If not in conjunction with another IDEAS program, special arrangements must be made for this program.
 

 
 


All programs are Fee-For Service.

Contact Us for rates and more information.