Author: Smith, Judy and Perks, Wendy

Publication Year: 1977

Media Type: Report

Summary:

This book is written to illustrate many of these values to special educators and to the trainers of special educators. Its purposes are: to present the arts as powerful educational and therapeutic tools; to describe a group of viable arts education programs and activities; to review research on positive changes in children as a result of arts experiences; and, most particularly, to provide the trainers of special education personnel with some of the tools they might use in preparing trainees to incorporate the arts into each handicapped child's curriculum in a meaningful way.

Abstract:

This book is written to illustrate many of these values to special educators and to the trainers of special educators. Its purposes are: to present the arts as powerful educational and therapeutic tools; to describe a group of viable arts education programs and activities; to review research on positive changes in children as a result of arts experiences; and, most particularly, to provide the trainers of special education personnel with some of the tools they might use in preparing trainees to incorporate the arts into each handicapped child's curriculum in a meaningful way.
(p. 5)

CONTENTS
Perspectives:

The authors' perspectives.
A calendar of Federal perspectives.
Notes on State perspectives.

Possibilities and potentials:

Art/Music/Dance/Drama/Creative writing.
Research outcomes.
Programming for arts in education.
Features of Arts-in-Education programs.
Making the arts accessible.
Prototypes: A State/A City/A school.
Money.

Projects and prime movers:

The National Committee * Arts for the handicapped.
The Bureau of Education for the handicapped.
New York State Education Department Model/Very Special Arts Festivals.
Pennsylvania Arts in special education preservice model.
Pennsylvania Arts in special education inservice model.
Central Midwestern regional educational laboratory.
Wright State University/Art Education and Art Therapy Department.
Jefferson County Public Schools Arts-in-education program.
San Fernando Valley Arts Council.
Camp Sunshine.
Alan Short Center.
Clover Park Schools.
S.A.R.A.'s Center.
Ashburton Elementary School/Montgomery County Public Schools.
Eastern Kentucky University.
Margaret Chapman School.
Creative Growth.
Recreation Center for the handicapped/San Francisco.
Appalachian Folk Arts Project/University of Kentucky.
University of Kansas/Music Packages and curricula.
CEMREL, Inc.
Adaptation of existing arts curricula.
A music oriented early intervention project.
Chapel Hill Training-Outreach project.
The living stage improvisational theatre.
Illinois State University.
Interdisciplinary faculty council/Texas Women's University.

Personnel Preparation:

The training gap.
Suggestions for personnel preparation programs.

Resources/Arts for the handicapped.
Footnotes.
References.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education