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Workshop: Teaching the Arts to Students With Autism

The Ware Center hosts “Teaching the Arts to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.”

 

South Central PaARTners is hosting “Teaching the Arts to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” a workshop for art, dance, theater, media arts educators, classroom teachers and teaching artists on August 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ware Center. Millersville University entered into a partnership with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and created South Central PaARTners in 2001 to make a bigger impact on arts education.

This workshop will provide professional development training for educators and teaching artists to improve their skills when teaching to students who have autism spectrum disorder, pre-K through 12th grade. The workshop will provide an overview of these developmental disabilities and strategies for using universal design for learning.

“In response to greater awareness of the unique challenges faced by those with autism spectrum disorders, this workshop takes the logical next step: providing educators with a set of tools and techniques to help them address these students’ needs,” said Tyler Clever, arts in education program director at Millersville.

Co-presenters for the workshop are Shari Donath, a Creative Arts teacher at the Pathway School, and Ermyn King, an arts educator and specialist in the arts and health field who currently serves as Creative Arts Program Coordinator at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Act 48 credit will be available. Cost for the workshop is $25 per person, which includes the all-day conference, breakfast and lunch. Pre-registration is required. For more information or to have registration material sent, please contact South Central PaARTners: 717-871-2186 or email Ty Clever:  tyler.clever@millersville.edu.

This program was made possible by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the VSA, Pennsylvania’s organization on arts and disability.

 

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