SpecialStarsTheater

Special Stars theater group started with Marlboro Community Players as a 6 week summer Challenger Theater recreational program with a group of 20 children ages 10 - 22 with a variety of special needs. As the parent of a child with special needs I realized art enrichment opportunities were not readily available.
Our program has children with Autism spectrum disorders, Down’s syndrome and other developmental disabilities. We provide a safe environment for these kids to sing, dance, act and tell jokes and facilitate participation by matching participants with a non-disabled typically developing peer. We use siblings as well as teens from local theater arts programs, those interested in special education fields and those just interested in helping and our program is supervised by a licensed Speech Therapist


We provide a fun experience for the children as well as for the volunteers to give back to the community.

Our mission is to grow our program as well as educate communities throughout the state/country into opening up opportunities like this for children and the families of children with special needs. To become the Special Olympics of the arts!
We are looking to spread our message about the importance of inclusion through the arts and growing our organization into a full time/ year round program and hope to have a program in place early to mid-fall this year.

Here is a link to some photos of our program from 2010 http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=B3&Date=20100815&Category=MULTIMEDIA02&ArtNo=8150803&Ref=PH

Performers are in RED and our buddies are in BLACK.
Won't you please consider helping us grow and spread our love of the arts? Visit us on facebook at facebook.com/SpecialStarsTheater.com

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Member since: June 2012
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