The Dancing Dialogue: Using The Communicative Power Of Movement With Young Children

To be used with children from birth to seven years old, this book for professionals working with children instructs how to use dance and movement-based therapy to assess nonverbal behavior, in intervention with children with special needs, and stimulate development. Tortora describes the model she developed called Ways of Seeing, how it is used with the Authentic Movement program and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) observation system, and how to implement it. She discusses early childhood development, movement as communication, observation and assessment, important questions to consider, self-reflection, intervention techniques, working with parents, educational programming, and activities in the classroom. Tortora uses clinical dance movement psychotherapy in her practice. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)