We are currently accepting registration for our summer program ART SPEAKS.  I have posted below in this e-mail and will also attach.  Feel free to distribute to clients/families that you think may be interested.  We have some great groups of children already.

 

Kim

 

 

 

 

 

A joint program created by

SPEECH PATHways and Tomorrow’s Treasures          

 

What is ART SPEAKS?

            ART SPEAKS is a new, innovative program created by SPEECH PATHways (pediatric speech-language pathology) and Tomorrow’s Treasures (art studio).  The program is specifically designed for children with language and learning disabilities. 

·          Classes for Preschool & School-Age Children

·          Individual and Group Instruction Available

·          Classes meet weekly for 6-week sessions

·          Low adult/child ratios

·          Art instruction by local artist, instructor & studio owner

·          Language instruction by licensed and certified pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist

·          Typically developing peer model(s) in each group

 

Goals of ART SPEAKS:

·          Improve peer relationships

·          Learn to read & respond appropriately to social cues

·          Learn to read & use body language appropriately

·          Learn to identify, express & respond to emotions

·          Learn to express self through various art mediums (emotions)

·          Improve communication & social exchanges

·          Build and maintain friendships

·          Opportunity for children with developmental delays to experience art and the various art mediums

 

Who Would Benefit from ART SPEAKS?

·          Autism Spectrum Disorders (PDD, Autism, Asperger’s)

·          Language Delays/Disabilities             

·          Social Skills/Pragmatic Deficits

·          Learning Disabilities

·          Developmental Delays & Disabilities                        

·          Motor-Planning Disorders                                          

·          Sensory Disorders

·          Attention Issues

·          Auditory Processing Issues

·          Cognitive Delays

·          Behavioral Issues

Research has shown that using “art” as an outlet for expression of feelings and ideas can be very successful in children with disabilities.  No skills are required for ART SPEAKS.  The “art” requires no artistic ability.  ART SPEAKS will help facilitate the use of visual symbols (artwork) as a means of expression for children who typically struggle in these areas.  The child’s creations will help facilitate expressive communication and social skills.  At the culmination of each 6-week session the children will display their creations at an ART SPEAKS exhibit.

 

Groups Meet at Art Studio 

2251 Penn View Drive, Manchester, MD 21102

Off Route 30, Near the MD/PA line

 

(410) 374-0555  www.speechpathways.net

 

 

Research shows that the benefits of early arts education extend way beyond providing a creative outlet for children. Arts education can help develop:

• Heightens self-esteem
• Develops cognitive skills
• Develops problem-solving skills
• Develops language
• Develops social skills
• Facilitates listening skills
• Encourages attention
• Decrease impulsiveness
• Allows for expression and creativity
• Facilitates imagination
• Encourages risk taking
• Improves visual discrimination skills
• Improves fine motor skills
• Develops self-discipline and responsibility
• Increases motivation to learn
• Provides fulfillment through productivity
• Creates cultural and historical awareness
• Develops ability to make aesthetic judgments
• Tends to improve academic performance

The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.

The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications.

 

 

Kimberly A. Bell, M.S., CCC-SLP

SPEECH PATHways

Owner/Speech-Language Pathologist

Phone: 410-374-0555

Fax: 410-374-8620

Carroll County, Maryland

kim.bell@...

www.speechpathways.net

"Pathways to Communication Enhancement"