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| 🎫 Teachers, students, camp directors, and parents may want to pay particular attention. We’re excited to share a few drama games and activities with you.
🏆 For ten years, my business partner Joe Schmitz and I were awarded grants to create and implement a school drama program that supports the personal growth of students with mild-to-moderate disabilities.
🚪Co-founders Joe Schmitz and Elaine Clark developed Special Focus as an interactive program that opens the door to students with diverse challenges such as autism, cognitive delay, emotional disabilities, attention deficit disorders, speech difficulties, diverse physical needs, and neurodiversity. |
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| 🎬 THE SPECIAL FOCUS PROGRAM 🎬 |
| | 👉🏽 Movement encourages muscle memory and comprehension. 🤔
🤓 How? This fun and engaging program uses: Improvisation activities that instill a positive attitude while developing creativity, focus, and attention.
Theatre arts and storytelling that encourage narrative and communication skills while exploring emotions, relationships, and responses to life situations.
A curriculum that supports literacy, reasoning, and physical development.
Instructing teachers, camp counselors, parents, and children in the “Special Focus” approach so they can use it in their own teaching, learning, and play.
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| 📓 SPECIAL FOCUS - TEACHER/STUDENT WORKBOOK 📓 |
| 🚸 Working with children to use specific kinesthetic movements in a fun improvisation, drama, and theatrical manner, fundamentally changed how I coach, teach, and perform. 🎟️ Share this workbook. May it have an impact on your life and others! |
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| ➡️ HELPING OTHERS 🗣️ SPEAK and ACHIEVE 💬 |
| Speak to Achieve, due out in September 2025, has a full chapter in the book demonstrating several Special Focus games and activities!
Activate Your Voice - voice and diction app, helps improve speech, diction, breath support, and resonance. It’s a handy guide for speakers and non-speakers who need encouragement to practice sounds while they build their confidence and vocal strength.
Adding Melody To Your Voice - speech improvement, instruction, and workout app - provides a word emphasis chart and exercises to add melody, tempo, rhythm, emotion, personality and clarity to flat, monotone, or non-specific speech patterns.
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| | | 📘📖📕 Explore 3 Books 📲📲 2 Apps & Real Talking Tips Podcast 🎙️ |
| | | | 🗣 52 VO & Speech Communication Lessons 🗣 As a coach and educator, I understand that people learn differently. You can view, read, watch, move, and improve your Voice-Over, Speaking Voice, Podcast, Presentation, and Communication skills via the RealTalkingTips web, blog, and audio/video podcast platforms. Begin with Episode 1 - Identifying Your Strengths & Weaknesses - and work your way to Episode 52. For maximum benefit, practice each tip and complete each assignment before you move on to the next episode. |
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| | | 🎙️ Need a Demo Producer or VO Actor? Listen to ECVO Demos & Talent Database. 🎙️ |
| | @ElaineClarkVO YouTube Talent DatabaseClick the video above to hear talented voice actors and the demos that I produced for them. Casting Directors, Producers, and Talent Agents - check out this exciting free VO talent database. Contact the voice-over talent directly. Their email and website is provided at the end of each demo. Contact me for coaching and demos: elaineclarkvo.com/contact. Or, email me directly: elaineclarkvo@gmail.com.
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| | Check Out Elaine Clark’s Books & Apps! |
| | | THINK, LEARN & BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY |
| The Special Focus program lives on in you and the people you share it with.
I encourage you to donate to theatre programs that engage students on the autism spectrum. Including this one.
Joseph Schmitz - SF Shakes teaching artist, autism theatre specialist, and co-founder of Special Focus, brought the program to Shakespeare’s Heartbeat and continues to help the heartbeat program flourish. |
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| | Need a speech, communication, podcast, or voiceover coach?
Contact Elaine Clark. Click the button below to schedule a 1:1 session. Study - Practice - Perform - Succeed! |
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