Dance Therapy In Schools

Dance and music therapies are getting attention due to students because it will help their mental health. Some schools are testing out dance therapy for the students. While some schools are supporting music therapy to help the students attending. So the students can improve their mental health and their skills. Dance and music therapies are beneficial and it should get the support from the school districts to help the students and special need students for their everyday problems/issues. Some schools are trying out the dance therapy to help the students who attend there, to help them with their challenges that they face in school or outside of school. As Julia Chibbaro explains “Professional school counselors are challenged to meet the needs
escents struggle with social, emotional, and physical issues.” Some counselors are having a hard time getting to know the students problems so they are supporting dance therapy, so it can aid the kids with any type of
Many schools with special need kids are taking the support of dance therapy to help them with their skills. For example, “Boyd already was certified to teach Autism Movement Therapy in her classes, and Matthews decided to go to the AMT Center in Los Angeles and become certified as well. ‘It's exciting to have somebody inspired by what I was doing’” (Churchill). Boyd is a professional teacher who is helping kids that suffer from autism and she loves helping the special need kids, because she knows how hard it can be taking care of a child who is depending on the parents and she wants to change that thought and make the kids be independent. Mia is one of the dance students that Boyd is helping to improve her social skills. She has a mild form of autism, she is three years old and Boyd is teaching her to dance. Mia is inspiring Boyd more because she wants other autistic kids to learn dance because it helps the kids and others to interact with them. Furthermore Theresa Churchill stated, “Jump! she squeals. The word is one of 40 to 50 in the girl's vocabulary, a threefold increase since the class began in the spring. Mia's mother, Ossie Reynolds of Pana, said the class not only is helping the girl become more verbal but also helping her follow directions.” Mia is dramatically changing due to dance therapy she is now calmer and she listens to her mom and follows directions.