Special Needs Programs

Expressive Arts Programs for children and adults with learning disorders, behavior problems and special needs.

Susan offers:

Dance & Movement

Consultations

In-Services & Trainings

Creative Movement & Writing classes for grades 1 - 6 are fun, expressive and educational!  Children will be challenged to create their own short stories under the guidance of Ms. Rosano using different themes for their stories.  Children have created monster stories, alien stories, creatures from beneath the sea stories, stories from the jungles of Africa and the rainforests of South America in Ms. Rosano's classes.  The class starts with some movement exercises to feel our story characters, then moves on to writing exercises.  When the stories are finished, the children then create their own story illustrations.  

CLASSES 
Offered to Grades 1 - 6:

1. Monster Class: We create our monsters with our movements, then write a story called “Monster Cafe” which includes making up a yummie menu for the Monster Cafe. After this, we draw our monsters.

2. Outer Space Class: We move to the music of the Twilight Zone, write acrostic outer space poems and create an alien sculpture creature.

3. Jungle Class: We do movement warm-ups related to the jungle and find our animal allies. We write a story about our animal allies and draw a 
fantastic jungle scene.

4. Ocean Class: We dance as our ocean creatures inside our imagined aquarium, play the silly sentence game and make an underwater scene.

5. Rock and Roll Class: We play our imagined instruments to music and do some silly 60’s dances, then write a rock and roll poem using a rhyming “word collection” created by the class. We then create our own CD covers for an imagined rock and roll group. 

Susan is a teaching artist with Young Audiences of Connecticut as an Expressive Arts Specialist, bringing expressive arts to schools throughout Connecticut. To find out more about Young Audiences of CT, go to their website at: www.yaconn.org and find Susan on their roster.

General Goals for Children Attending an Expressive Arts Class:

Developing self control, self esteem and self expression

Facilitating social interaction

Improving communication and interactive skills

Creating a positive body image

Improving directionality, balance and coordination, physical mastery

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Susan E. Rosano has a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT,  holds a certificate in Pastoral Counseling and is a Reiki Practitioner. She is a Master Teaching Artist with the State of Connecticut Commission on Culture. Her areas of expertise include visual and studio arts; dance & movement therapy; poetry therapy and creative writing; Healing Tao meditation, spirituality, energy healing and music of the world. Susan has worked with individuals and groups of all ages for the past 10 years, facilitating movement groups, music groups, individual therapies, support groups, energy healing and expressive drawing. She is also an active advocate for children with special needs, working with PATH (Parents Available To Help)/ Parent to Parent of CT. Presently, Susan works as an Expressive Arts Specialist / Spiritual Care Counselor with Hospice & Palliative Care of CT VNA. 

  TEACHER TRAINING IN EXPRESSIVE ARTS

A training class for teachers in Expressive Arts is available through CT Expressive Arts.  Learn to use expressive arts in the classroom with your students!

Many therapeutic goals of expressive arts are compatible with educational goals. In the largest sense, both disciplines serve to further cognitive, social and emotional development. Areas of compatibility with educational goals include the development of:

Exploration, Experimentation & Discovery
Coordination, Movement & Balance
Interpersonal Skills
Action and Interaction
Risk Taking
Creative Expression
Social Skills
Improved Ability to Cope with Stress
Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence
Group Cooperation through Collaboration of Ideas
Communication Skills
Problem Solving Skills
Integration of Experience
Spontaneity and Experimentation
Sensory Motor Integration
Imaginative play *
*All are characteristics of NAEYC Curriculum Criteria

Consultations

Ms. Rosano is available for:

Consultations, evaluations and program planning

Teaching expressive arts classes at your facility 

Speaking at conferences

Private expressive arts sessions

Expressive arts uses various arts - dance & movement, drawing, painting, music, poetry, puppetry, sound and meditation - in a supportive setting to facilitate growth and healing.  It is a process of discovering ourselves through any art form that comes from an emotional depth.  When using the arts for self-healing, we are not concerned with the beauty of the visual art, the grammar and style of writing, or the harmonic flow of a song.  We use the arts to let go, to express and to release.  The use of imagery and non-verbal modes allows the participant an alternate path for self-exploration and communication.  The arts are potent media in which to discover, experience and accept unknown aspects of the self. 

Please Email Susan at ctexpressivearts@aol.com or 

Call Susan at 860-301-9033 for more information.

All of Susan Rosano's programs are eligible for Arts Presentation Grants from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. For information on these grants, please click here: Teaching Artist Grants 

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