Author: Sally D. Bailey, RDT/BCT
$17.95 – paper – 352 pages

Wings to Fly: Bringing Theatre Arts to Students with Special Needs is a comprehensive nuts and bolts handbook for special education and drama teachers, therapists, and recreation leaders. It describes concrete, field-tested techniques and lesson plans for teaching drama to students with a wide array of special needs in academic and theatre settings. Readers also learn about the therapeutic and educational benefits of drama – how participants of all ages gain self-confidence, improve communication skills, discover how to become a team player, and find new, creative ways to express themselves.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Need for the Arts
Chapter 2: The Arts and Disability
Chapter 3: Physical Disabilities
Chapter 4: Cognitive Disabilities
Chapter 5: Getting off to a Good Start: Basic Adaptations
Chapter 6: Creative Drama and Improvisation
Chapter 7: Lesson Plans and Activities that Work
Chapter 8: Puppetry
Chapter 9: Developing Original Scripts for Performance
Chapter 10: Using Drama as a Teaching Tool in the Classroom
Chapter 11: Mainstreaming

About the Author: Sally Dorothy Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT is an established playwright, director, and registered drama therapist. She created and directed the Arts Access Program for students with special needs at the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts in Bethesda MD from 1988-98.

PRAISE FOR WINGS TO FLY:

“Sally Bailey’s passionate, incisive, and insightful methods put her in the vanguard of what children’s theatre for the 21st century must be: theatre that invites all children to go through the doors of their imagination and unleash what’s trapped inside.”

-- Mark Medoff, Tony Award-winning playwright of Children of a Lesser God

“An extremely welcome addition to the very sparse literature in this field?The author’s considerable background in theatre coupled with years of first-hand experience working with disabled participants make her particularly knowledgeable.”

-- Hilary U. Cohen in The Drama Theatre Teacher