* Offers accessible and effective methods to supplement elementary education using strengths children already possess: imagination, physical energy and a need for personal expression, which cumulate into the idea of dynamic play * Chapters provide music, art, and dance material in addition to activities, games, and creative physical activities * Research about the correlation of movement to brain activity is included to support the thesis that creative movement as an effective adjunct to learning

* This book has two goals: to introduce a relevant interactive experience for undergraduate students involving the visual arts and community service, and to provide an instructional how-to for social service and mental health providers to use in a range of institutions which benefit by including art making activities to enhance their therapeutic objectives * The text is in the form of a manual with detailed instruction provided as to how to institute the course in a college setting and as a supplemental program in human service institutions * The program which the book describes is unique as either an undergraduate course or supplemental internship and there exists no other text that covers this material

* This book has two goals: to introduce a relevant interactive experience for undergraduate students involving the visual arts and community service, and to provide an instructional how-to for social service and mental health providers to use in a range of institutions which benefit by including art making activities to enhance their therapeutic objectives * The text is in the form of a manual with detailed instruction provided as to how to institute the course in a college setting and as a supplemental program in human service institutions * The program which the book describes is unique as either an undergraduate course or supplemental internship and there exists no other text that covers this material

* Offers accessible and effective methods to supplement elementary education using strengths children already possess: imagination, physical energy and a need for personal expression, which cumulate into the idea of dynamic play * Chapters provide music, art, and dance material in addition to activities, games, and creative physical activities * Research about the correlation of movement to brain activity is included to support the thesis that creative movement as an effective adjunct to learning

The action in Seeing in the Dark, Arielle's Story takes place from the mid-1960's through the 1990's and is set in suburban New Jersey and New York. Arielle, attractive and intelligent, is a woman who achieves in the challenging profession of electrical engineering, yet struggles to succeed as wife and mother amid the demands of work and the mercurial upheavals in her home life. Tensions build between her polarized worlds of work and home involving her husband's temperament and her children's dangerous choices. As Arielle navigates the rapid flow of change in three tumultuous decades she is, in essence, a quiet revolutionary, changing other women's lives forever because her problems are not hers alone, but those of ordinary and extraordinary women everywhere who strive for a vital and meaningful life. Judith Peck is a sculptor, author and professor of art at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah, New Jersey. Her sculpture has been exhibited internationally and is in over eighty public and private collections. Images of her sculpture can be viewed at www.judithpeck.com and descriptions of her books at www.iapbooks.com.