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Impacting Students: Students With Disabilities Participating In A Theater Occupation-Based Program, Markii D. Landry
Impacting Students: Students With Disabilities Participating In A Theater Occupation-Based Program, Markii D. Landry
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Acting Creates Therapeutic Success (ACTS Jr.) is a program that uses theater and drama activities to address a variety of skills. Theater advantageously offers a variety of activities that suit the individual (costume and prop making, set design, screenplay writing, etc.), many that fall under the scope of occupational therapy, and is executed well as a form of group therapy given its innate camaraderie of actors and production members working together to form a final cohesive product (Phillips, 1996). The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how theater can be used as a meaningful activity for students with disabilities …