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Drama

Drama can be fun and hugely beneficial for disabled kids whatever their needs. It can stimulate their imagination, their social skills, and improve their confidence and communication. It can even help kids cope with challenging times by giving them a platform to express their feelings. Drama groups are also a great way for your child to meet new friends.

Many special needs drama groups will use all sorts of multi-sensory tools like voicebox technology, hydro-therapy pools, trampolines, aromatherapy, video projection, animations and puppeteering to engage kids even more. Some professional theatre groups also run workshops for kids, so look through our quick links to see what’s out there.

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acta Youth Theatres

FREE weekly sessions in term-time for young people to make their own original theatre. No auditions, take part in fun drama games and workshops, theatre trips and holiday activities.
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Classes allow members the opportunity to work together in exercises, improvisation and creative dance. The Company integrates performers of all ages with learning difficulties, physical disabilities and sensory impairment with able-bodied dancers, actors and musicians.
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Bamboozle

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The BUILD Charity provides a wide range of opportunities ranging from youth clubs and youth activity schemes to a weekly social club (known as The Wednesday Club) as well as a range of community based activities with opportunities to take part in sport, gardening, outdoor and cultural activities as well as skills learning workshops.
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Performing, leisure and training opportunities for adults and young people with learning and physical disabilities and autistic spectrum conditions. Weekly after school activities for children from 8 to 18 with an emphasis on music and theatre skills, culminating in at least one public performance each year.
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DASH believes that Disability does not mean Inability, please look at the link for this group to see a huge variety of activities, help, advice and the chance to be part of something new. From an inclusive and adaptable Sunday youth club to team sports to days out, swimming sessions, reading and writing skills classes, line dancing, boccia the list goes on and on.
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Disability Rocks

Presenting music and arts events for disabled people, their families and friends.
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Our youth theatre work aimed at 13-25 year old people with a visual impairment, who are interested in drama and performance.
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Eye Arts Club

The Arts Club organise arts projects for children on Saturday mornings in Eye, Suffolk. They welcome children aged 7 and up, especially those with additional needs - whether physical, learning, sensory or behavioural. They aim to provide an integrated, yet supported, setting for arts activities, social interaction and fun. Activities include movement, dance, visual arts, film, animation, puppetry and maskwork.
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Inclusive Performing Arts Network for Young People (INTERACT)

Interact works with young people aged 10-16 (or 18 for young people with additional needs) in creative drama sessions using dialogue and stagecraft as well as music and movement. The group consists of up to 30 young people, 3 teachers, 2 helpers and a qualified nurse. Each year the group performs in a show created to use some of the skills gained through the experience. The sessions are free.
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By transforming everyday environments into colourful, tactile 'wonderlands' we invite our audience to join us in a world of the imagination. Using hydro-therapy pools and trampolines, aromatherapy, video projection, and puppetry together with a vast array of multi-sensory techniques, we create original and highly specialised theatre for our young audiences. All sorts of shows for all sorts of kids!
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Services include daytime support services, support in the home and community, social enterprises, Domiciliary Services, supported living and a social club in the evening.
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PASTEL

PASTEL provides a wide range of social, educational & learning, leisure & recreational opportunities. These meaningful activities offer new experiences to develop people's independence skills and group working. Projects have included: art, dance, drama, music, shadow puppetry, ball games and sports, food hygiene and preparation, film making, digital photography, ceramics and other fun indoor and outdoor activities.
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Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are Deafblind. They were established from a family support group in 1955 by parents whose children were born with rubella, and the experience, skills and views of families remain central to their work. You can see how they have developed over almost 60 years on their website. Sense offers high-quality, flexible services across the UK, using skilled staff and a dedicated network of volunteers. They work with a wide range of Deafblind and multi-sensory impaired people, as well as those who have a single-sensory impairment with additional needs. They work with children, young people, adults and older people with a progressive sight and hearing loss, offering a range of housing, educational and leisure opportunities. They also offer support to all Deafblind people in both the congenital and acquired Deafblind communities, not just those who receive direct support and services from them.
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SHABANG. Creating arts projects for children with disabilities/additional needs.
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Speakeasy Theatre Company

Speakeasy are a Theatre Company which specialise in work with disadvantaged adults and young people. Projects include workshops in Special Schools, Disability-Specific Youth Theatres and Movers, Leicester's Theatre Company for Learning Disabled Adults. Leicester based, most of our work happens in the East Midlands, but occasionally stretches Nationally.
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Strictly Collaborative

An INCLUSIVE theatre company aimed at 13-25 year olds. Non-disabled young people will also be expanding their knowledge, skills and understanding of, not only their community, but of the disabled community.
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The Bitesize Theatre Company

We regularly perform for children with emotional or behavioural problems, learning difficulties (moderate and severe), the physically handicapped and those with hearing or sight problems.
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The Chicken Shed is an inclusive theatre company in which individuals from all backgrounds and of all abilities can work together to the common end of high quality performance in drama, music and dance. It runs children's and youth theatre workshops, education courses, community outreach projects and a network of satellite 'Sheds' across the country.
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The Freewheelers Theatre Company brings disabled and non-disabled actors and supporters, production teams and the local community together. We use theatre and dance, wheelchair and voicebox technology, multimedia, animations, puppets and shadows to create innovative work
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The Total Arts creative learning group is for young people aged 11-19 with disabilities. They offer regular Saturday workshops featuring dance, drama, music making, film production and story devising leading to productions.
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