Learning Communication Skills Through the Arts (Year Two and beyond)

Learning Communication Skills Through the Arts (Year Two) is bringing appropriate music, dance, dramatic play and visual arts activities to 432 Head Start (ages 3-5) children from low income, rural families in Lycoming, Clinton and Montour Counties.  Teacher training and parent involvement will insure that use of these activities continues to improve communication skills of young children into the future. 

By employing different artists in different Head Start Centers, this second year will help to demonstrate program worth and make for interesting comparisons with the Year One results.

In addition, funding is being sought to launch a PA-wide Communication Skills project into six of the eleven Pennsylvania Arts in Education Partner regions.   An international expansion is likely as Ruth Churchill Dower has written “London and Yorkshire are two regions, which are looking to work with you on a Communication Project international exchange.”