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VIDBE - Q Volume 6 4 Issue 1
Kristen Paul & Brooke Barnhill
University of Utah
Creative dance is a proven strategy for promoting positive learning
outcomes for students with disabilities (Nelson, Paul, Johnston, & Kidder,
2017). Increasingly, studies investigating the effect of using creative dance
as a context for learning show impr ovements in academic, adaptive,
communication, and social skills. (Nelson, Paul, Barnhill, 2017). However,
to date, few studies have investigated the impact of arts instruction,
including dance, on students with sensory impairments, which may be
explained by the fact that few arts programs, including those in educational
settings, offer instruction explicitly designed for students with visual
impairmen ts and/or deafblindness (Nelson, Paul, & Barnhill, 2017). That
said, to increase access and enhance learning outcomes, it is vital that
educators learn strategies to integrate creative dance into lessons,
activities, and routines. The purpose of this artic le is to highlight the
upcoming Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Division on Visual
CEC's DVIDB Preconvention Workshop: Teaching Concepts to Children with
Visual Impairments and Deafblindness Using the BEST Elements of Dance
