Student movement

The teacher, a dance movement therapist at a school for students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities, talks about the strategies she uses to engage students in movement in a challenging context. At a professional development session the teacher discusses the strategies she uses to support the intellectual development of her students and what assessment practices might be used in this particular school context.

Sunshine Special Developmental School is a coeducational government special school located in the metropolitan location of Sunshine, Victoria. The movement classes are based on respecting each of the students’ movement styles and supporting them to discover and progress to finding new forms of preferred movement.